I felt lazy again this evening, but by the mighty power of blogging I somehow found the oomph to get on the old exercise bike for the second time this week. I don’t like to leave too many days between reporting something positive here! I put a different CD on this time so it was [...]
Well, I’ve had confirmation of why colly wasn’t able to ride very fast in his bottom gear last Saturday… His biggest sprocket had ripped the splines out of the hub! That’s an example of why the sprockets in many cassettes are riveted together (it spreads the load out over a bigger area of the hub).
I had hoped to get out on my bike today, but I didn’t get round to it so it was time to get back on the exercise bike again. It was another 47 minute session because I listened to the same album that I was listening to last time and pedalled through to the end [...]
I started this year weighing 220.0 pounds (15 stone 10.0 pounds, 99.8 kg). Last week, I weighed 212.7 pounds (15 stone 2.7 pounds, 96.5 kg). This week, I weigh 212.6 pounds (15 stone 2.6 pounds, 96.4 kg). That’s a loss last week of only 0.1 pounds, or 0.1 kg. Total weight loss so far is [...]
Today, I was set to do the Mini-North-West Passage, a 75 mile (120 km) audax event from Rochdale, near Manchester. I had arranged to meet Colly and Calum (two riders from the CycleChat forum) in Hebden Bridge at 07:30 and then ride with them the 14.5 miles (23.5 km) to Rochdale for the event I [...]
I did 47 minutes on the exercise bike this evening. No, not 40 minutes, and not 45 minutes – 47 minutes! I planned to stop after 45 minutes but I carried on while I finished listening to the last track on the CD I was exercising to. I always listen to music when using my [...]
Just for the record – I did another 40 minute intervals session on my exercise bike this evening. I’d been feeling a bit sluggish after spending all day stuck in front of my computer, but the exercise soon ‘blew away the cobwebs’. I feel pleasantly relaxed now.
I started this year weighing 220.0 pounds (15 stone 10.0 pounds, 99.8 kg). Last week, I weighed 213.4 pounds (15 stone 3.4 pounds, 96.8 kg). This week, I weigh 212.7 pounds (15 stone 2.7 pounds, 96.5 kg). That’s a loss last week of 0.7 pounds, or 0.3 kg. Total weight loss so far is 7.3 [...]