We're going back-to-back. Final week is next week for Round 1, Round 2 starts the week after.

5/5

I'm counting 4/4 this week, much to my surprise.

Monday was not what I would usually count as a workout (2 mile run, 100 pushups), but the effort involved was considerable. By this weekend though, I skied the Tête de Valepelline - roughly 8 hours of total climbing (2200 meters total) over two days from Arolla, ending just shy of 4000 meters, with a 2-hour (2200 meter!) descent to Zermatt. My back was incredibly tired and achy, but surprisingly not really painful at all!

Glad to hear you're recovering nicely, ergo! My lower back is still bugging me, I thought it would be healed up by now.

Barely eeked by with 5/5 this week, had to make up Sat and Sun. More workouts rescued by the commit.

Good job - 5 workouts with a hurt back must have been rough. And yes, my first two would absolutely not have happened last week without the commit.

Actually it only hurts when I stand up straight. When basically doing anything at all it feels fine. I took a couple days of doing nothing to try and give it time, but didn't make much difference.

Odd.

4/4

Did a couple of sessions in the gym this weekend, but with a nasty migraine. Helped a bit though

Drastic -

You're in the UK right?

In Switzerland or France (and I assume therefore in the UK), you  can just go to the pharmacy and get Voltaren (a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory - NSAID - that is only approved for rheumatism in the US I think). I was taking sodium naproxen (only available by prescription in France).

The sodium naproxen was doing basically nothing, but I started getting huge relief once I started on the Voltaren. Just an idea.

Unlike the sodium naproxen which slightly dulled the pain, but by morning when it had worn off, I didn't see much difference, the Voltaren didn't do much for the pain, but the effect was cumulative over a couple of days in reducing (I'm guessing) the inflammation so that after a few days the worst of it was gone.

No, I'm in the US.

I think my spine needs adjustment. It feels fine when I first get up and then starts giving me trouble after an hour or so. I've got an appt. with my applied kinesiologist.

My wife put the TENS unit on it for a while last night, seemed to help a bit. Will see today if makes much difference.

Thanks for the info though!

Waiting for thesaint's numbers for the weekly roundup.

Sorry for the late check in.  4/5 for me this week. 

This week is the final week of Round 1. Round 2 starts on Monday.

Results through Week 11:
littleman
Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 4/4
Week 3 - 4/4
Week 4 - 4/4
Week 5 - 4/4
Week 6 - 4/4
Week 7 - 4/4
Week 8 - 4/4
Week 9 - 4/4
Week 10 - 4/4
Week 11 - 4/4

thesaintv12
Week 1 - 5/5
Week 2 - 5/5
Week 3 - 5/5
Week 4 - 5/5
Week 5 - 3/5
Week 6 - 3/5
Week 7 - 5/5
Week 8 - 4/5
Week 9 - 4/5
Week 10 - 3/5
Week 11 - 4/5

jetboy
Week 1 - 5/5
Week 2 - 5/5
Week 3 - 5/5
Week 4 - 5/5
Week 5 - 5/5
Week 6 - 5/5
Week 7 - 5/5
Week 8 - 3/5
Week 9 - 5/5
Week 10 - 5/5
Week 11 - 5/5

Rumbas
Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 2/4
Week 3 - 4/4
Week 4 - 3/4
Week 5 - 4/4
Week 6 - 4/4
Week 7 - 4/4
Week 8 - 4/4
Week 9 - 4/4
Week 10 - 4/4
Week 11 - 4/4

ergophobe
Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 4/4
Week 3 - 4/4
Week 4 - 4/4
Week 5 - 4/4
Week 6 - 4/4
Week 7 - 4/4
Week 8 - 1/4
Week 9 - 4/4
Week 10 - 0/4
Week 11 - 4/4

Drastic
Week 1 - 5/5
Week 2 - 5/5
Week 3 - 5/5
Week 4 - 5/5
Week 5 - 5/5
Week 6 - 5/5
Week 7 - 5/5
Week 8 - 5/5
Week 9 - 5/5
Week 10 - 5/5
Week 11 - 5/5

Commitments for Round 2 starting Monday:
Rumbas - 4 days/wk
littleman - 4 days/wk
thesaintv12 - 4 days/wk
Drastic - 5 days/wk
ergophobe - 4 days/wk
jetboy - 5 days/wk

Anyone new want to join in for next week? Now is the time.

4/4 again.

5/5

4/4.

4/5