Fitness for Glastonbury 2025

[Crazyfool01]

32 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

wouldn't say I am necessarily an alcoholic...but I definitely have a bit of a habit and maybe a bit of a booze problem...so today having first dry day in quite a while...and going to try and stay alcohol free 3 days a week from now on. Coming up to 5pm which is when I would normally have my first beer.....

Best of luck fella for today and the steps going forward 

[ghandi]

Went on my first 4 mile walk / March ( faster paced walk) , since October today after letting myself go when the weather / work and will power became more of a problem. Now we have tickets and xmas / new year are iver, I feel the need to get fot and lose weight, there is the goal at the end. Two years ago when I got to 85 kls I downloaded a walking app and got down to about 81 and felt comfortable.  I take steroids as part of dealing with scarcodosis and it dosn't help with the weight loss

 No drink shall I partake for at  least a month, along with re engaging with the getting fit. I am 63 end if Jan so health is a concern as well.

[SPW]

3 hours ago, steviewevie said:

wouldn't say I am necessarily an alcoholic...but I definitely have a bit of a habit and maybe a bit of a booze problem...so today having first dry day in quite a while...and going to try and stay alcohol free 3 days a week from now on. Coming up to 5pm which is when I would normally have my first beer.....

All the best with this. All I can say as a bit of a binge drinker in the past is that about 10 yrs ago I had to cut back because of a blood disorder that forced me to change my drinking habits. That was inadvertantly a great change for me and I still enjoy a drink but with less quantity and cutting out a fair bit that I now realise was just routine/habit. Probably benefitted me mentally more than physically tbh.  Good luck with it😉

 

As for Glastonbury generally, am by no means ultra fit but used to do a fair bit of running and more latterly cycling, and go to the gym a fair bit. Last year I found it fine as a 55 yo being out from 10am until the early hours each day (and stayed up at Worthy View last yr so a fair trek).  There is lots of walking but it's broken up such that I don't really notice the miles build up. Deffo worth getting into the habit of walking if don't already before going (and in shoes you are going to wear at the festival). 

Edited Thursday at 08:45 PM by SPW

[philipsteak]

First hike of the year in.

 

[philipsteak]

13 hours ago, steviewevie said:

wouldn't say I am necessarily an alcoholic...but I definitely have a bit of a habit and maybe a bit of a booze problem...so today having first dry day in quite a while...and going to try and stay alcohol free 3 days a week from now on. Coming up to 5pm which is when I would normally have my first beer.....

 

Good luck with this. 

How was the first evening?

[steviewevie]

1 hour ago, philipsteak said:

 

Good luck with this. 

How was the first evening?

It was ok thanks! I mean, one evening is ok, I'm sure I can do 3 evenings a week, just need to maintain it...and just take the whole booze thing out of my life a bit...thinking about it all the time, hiding it from the family etc.

Like a lot of people booze and pubs has been a big part of my life, but I've never got into spirits and these days I don't often actually get proper pissed..but since covid have got into the habit of having several beers and/or a few glasses of wine every evening starting 5ish, but only for a few hours, I won't carry on until I'm paralytic. If I'm honest and calculated it though I'm probably having 40-60 units per week so need to cut down. Maybe one day I'll have to knock it on the head altogether like my Dad and brother did, but not there yet.

 

Edited Friday at 07:47 AM by steviewevie

[steviewevie]

11 hours ago, SPW said:

All the best with this. All I can say as a bit of a binge drinker in the past is that about 10 yrs ago I had to cut back because of a blood disorder that forced me to change my drinking habits. That was inadvertantly a great change for me and I still enjoy a drink but with less quantity and cutting out a fair bit that I now realise was just routine/habit. Probably benefitted me mentally more than physically tbh.  Good luck with it😉

 

As for Glastonbury generally, am by no means ultra fit but used to do a fair bit of running and more latterly cycling, and go to the gym a fair bit. Last year I found it fine as a 55 yo being out from 10am until the early hours each day (and stayed up at Worthy View last yr so a fair trek).  There is lots of walking but it's broken up such that I don't really notice the miles build up. Deffo worth getting into the habit of walking if don't already before going (and in shoes you are going to wear at the festival). 

Thanks.

I'll be 55 this year, and apart from the booze am pretty fit. Used to do quite a lot of running, long distance races etc., but over last few years life and injuries has got in the way a bit. Been picking it up again recently and running 30/40 miles per week. Love running to be honest. On days I don't run I try and walk a lot, I have a target on my garmin watch app thingy to get above 13.5k steps/day, which I mostly hit. I cycle to work too, when I can be arsed and when weather favourable, so not as much as I should! So I'm kind of ok fitness wise but have got some growing pains, various aches and pains, a bit of tinnitus, some anxiety..maybe cutting down on the booze will help with some of that.