Archive for July, 2009

Progress Report – Week 29

Okay, this progress report is different!
I’m currently ill and not exercising but I’m still eating and drinking as much as usual so I’ve definitely put some weight on. I can feel it and see it but I’ve decided not to measure it on the scales or with my tape measure! I feel pretty down and [...]

Walk – Jumble Hole Clough

Well, I was still feeling ill but I’d been stuck indoors too much this past week so I was determined to get out for a while. It has been my least active week so far this year – that due to a combination of the mysterious ‘lurgy’ that I’ve picked up, but also due to [...]

Aaaargh – Boar Flu (Swine Flu for men)!

There’s been a lot of talk in the media about Swine Flu and how it is going to end civilisation as we know it. I know that a really serious flu outbreak could kill thousands of people but this really doesn’t seem to be it, at least not yet.
I’ve been pretty healthy for the last [...]

Progress Report – Week 28

This is a deferred weight loss progress report. It is both a progress report deferred from yesterday (because I forgot to do it) and a report of weight loss which has been deferred until a later date. This week I am deferring all of a 2.0 pounds weight loss until an as-yet unspecified later date. [...]

Road Ride – Mankinholes, Calderbrook, Blackstone Edge, Hubberton Green

The Jet Stream has been playing up the past couple of weeks! At this time of year it is usually passing north of the UK and keeping bad weather away from us. June was very good, but then the Jet Stream moved south and brought some stormy Atlantic weathers systems with it. July here has [...]

Road Ride – Modified Local Loop

Rain was forecast for later on today and I wanted to get out and do a road ride before it arrived.
It was overcast and windy when I set off so I didn’t bother taking my camera out with me, and I also didn’t want to venture too far from home in case the weather suddenly [...]

Progress Report – Week 27

I’ve decided to be more positive about things… I started this year weighing 220.0 pounds (15 stone 10.0 pounds, 99.8 kg). I now weigh 205.0 pounds (14 stone 9.0 pounds, 93.0 kg), the same as last week so I have yet again successfully avoided gaining any weight! This is not as good as actually losing [...]

MTB Ride – Old Chamber, London Road, Duke Street, Colden Clough.

I had a problem after I’d serviced my MTB recently – the saddle that used to be on the MTB is now on my exercise bike. The saddle that used to be on the exercise bike is now on a singlespeed bike which I keep in the midlands. That left me two Fizik Arione saddles [...]