To wrap up 2022, we bring you film festival month. As the year comes to an end and family commitments can take over, be sure to keep your training consistent and your body ticking over.
If you have additional time, we recommend complementing your training with some mobility work.
So Stoked to do Ride for your L1fe. My son rides for the team that Robbe Cuerens of Team Novo Norkdisk rode for as an amateur. Looking forward to the story especially when it is so close to home. I know his grand dad who is still part of the team and an awesome guy, a great inspiration.
Making of the hour is good as is Fursa, must get round to Wahoo Frontiers too.
Challenge accepted.
Just did âRide for Your Lifeâ for the first time and was impressed by how much effort went into making this video, as you can see from the four minutes of credits at the end, but also by the fact that pro racing is just incredibly hard, even without the added issue of athletes dealing with diabetes. Of course, the purpose of the team is to promote the idea that you can not only live with diabetes but actually be a high-level athlete with proper management. All indications point to a global diabetes epidemic, which is to some extent preventable, but for those who have to live with it I hope that the videoâs message brings some comfort. Still, it must be tough to be a hungry pro racer on a team that had its last good year in winning terms in 2012!
Hey James,
Sorry we canât get the breakdown to appear on the progress page in SYSTM at the moment.
The best way to make sure you get all the workouts done is to click on the hyperlinks above and schedule them on your SYSTM calendar throughout December so you will be able to get them done. We have not created a training plan for these challenges as we want to make sure everyone has the flexibility to complete them when best suits.
For these challenges Iâd still quite like some form of plan, because then it puts all the sessions in to the calendar and I can then move to suit. It is otherwise a bit of manual back and forth and easy to miss a session, particularly with no progress page.
Just a thought.
This is a good point.
Though I mostly read the forums/web on a device without Systm installed so the links wouldnât work. I could look to use a different machine though.
In the no Systm event should they link to the web based version? I had thought that they didnt but ought to check again.
I tried it just after posting above and youâre absolutely right. Iâve no idea what happened before. Maybe I wasnât logged in. Or maybe I was being an idiotâŚ
Ride For Your L1fe - what a great story. A really interesting insight into what people with Type 1 diabetes have to live with, and that this doesnât limit their ability to compete at an elite level.
I remember watching Milan-San Remo last year, and seeing the Novo Nordisk riders in the breakaway - itâs good to see some of the back story to the team and the riders.
It makes me realize how I take so many things for granted. Inspiring and thought-provoking.
I was really impressed with the very realistic way they presented the issue. My daughter is a Type 1 diabetic. It turned her life upside down, but not over. She was diagnosed one week before graduating from college. Three months later she started law school, in an honors program.
Iâve said many times, Iâm no where near as strong as she is. And I mean it. It has itâs challenges, but G_d help the person who tells her she canât do anything she wants to do because of the diabetes.
Loved the video. Doing it for the Dec challenge will be the third time for me.
And riding with JDRF for the last few years during El Tour de Tucson, puts this way more in perspective when you see âordinaryâ folks riding 102 miles at a pace even I canât keep up with. Thatâs up close and personal. And I did my Knighthood for them.
I rode Wahoo Frontiers 2020 this morning and I was pleasantly surprised to find that the thumbnails for the 4 videos for December have a note showing they are included in the December challenge. That made it much easier to find them.
Back training after illness and was looking for some inspiration to get me going: this challenge sounded just the ticket!
Did my first one last night ( the hour record attempt by Rohan Dennis) and it felt great: nice feeling the burn in the legs and being reminded that if we believe we can achieve ( wasnât that a Witney Houstonâs song or somethingâŚ.). Looking forward to completing the challenge especially as I wonât be heading outdoors any time soon while the Uk is in the midst of an âarctic blastâ!
Ride for your l1fe was a great workout and inspiring and emotional vid.
Looking forward to completing all 4 for December and liking this challenge concept as an intro/prompt for different content.
