A bunch of us did a ride to Waddington a month ago and we decided to do a repeat of the 57-miler today. It’s a relatively easy route by our hilly northern standards, so it is a nice ride to do at this time of year to help build fitness, and get us out when [...]
So, the weather forecasts were right! Today was a fine sunny day and the temperatures got up to about 14 degrees C, much warmer than the average for this time of year here. I had to get out on my bike and make the most of it. I’d contacted Shaun (CycleChat’s bromptonfb) and he agreed [...]
So, last night was another late night, but this time I was just drinking chilled sparkling mineral water with a dash of OJ.
So, ‘Slimmer and Fitter’ – it’s been just over 2 years since I started this blog and I haven’t achieved my aims. I started off making good progress, but then faltered. All the good work has unravelled and I’m basically back where I started from – fat, and relatively unfit. (That is – unfit compared [...]
I’m just keeping things up to date …
I got together with Shaun (CycleChat member bromptonfb) and Dave (CC: potsy) again today to do another road ride, a shorter one than last week’s but much hillier – a slightly modified version of my ‘Trauma of Trawden‘ route. Even with my lack of cycling recently, I wasn’t too worried by the hills or the [...]
I know it isn’t the world’s healthiest lunch, but I really fancied a chip butty (plus mayo) today so I power-walked up the hill to meet Lisa and dragged her off to the cafe, where such a butty was consumed. At least I got my pulse rate up for 15 minutes and my legs moving [...]