Snow Stopped Play!
So much for today’s scheduled bike ride…
Stroll – Mytholmroyd and Back (20-Feb-10)
I was supposed to be doing the mini North-West Passage audax ride today but I’d called it off because of bad weather reports from round the region. ***
Well, funnily enough, the sun was shining here and I needed some shopping so I walked ‘the long way round’ to the shops with Lisa. We did our little walk to Mytholmroyd along the Calder Valley Cycleway, and returned up the bridleway above Nest Estate, then down through Crow Nest Wood and Fairfield.
Fight or Flight?
I just walked to the shops and realised that I needed to get some cash from the local ATM. I’d done that and was walking back towards the supermarket when I saw two stocky young men coming towards me. I could tell that they’d been drinking and they had a rather menacing air about them so I walked into the road to go round them as we passed. Next thing I knew, the one nearest to me reached up and grabbed my woolly hat off my head and ran off with it!
Progress Report – Week 58
Another slow week with just one walk early on and a decent road bike ride at the weekend.
Despite that, I’m still slowly losing weight. I am now 14 stone 13.1 pounds (209.1 pounds, 94.8 kg).
The OJ-ometer shows a total loss of 6 litres of OJ!
Road Ride – CycleChat ‘Winter Warmer’
Fellow CycleChat forum member Calum sent me a PM a few days ago which nudged me into emerging from my winter slump and organising another ride. There must have been a lot of people feeling the same way as Calum and me because there was probably the best response ever.
I had proposed that we do the same route that I did with Ben back on December 11th – details here. In the end we decided to extend the ride somewhat. The eventual route was Hebden Bridge, Oxenhope, Scar Top, Oakworth, Slippery Ford, Sutton Moor, Lane Ends, Cowling Hill, Black Lane Ends, Laneshaw Bridge, Trawden, Coldwell Activity Centre, Haggate, Worsthorne, Mereclough, Holme Chapel, Todmorden, and back to Hebden Bridge. There were a few individual variations, but details on that later.
Walk – Rawtenstall Bank, Turret Hall
I finally dragged myself away from the computer and out of the house today. We had blue skies here earlier so I’d arranged to walk ‘the long way’ to the shops with Lisa via one of the many local hilly paths.
Progress Report – Week 57
This winter is really dragging on. I’ve been finding it very depressing down here in the valley where it has been drizzly and gloomy for about a week. In fact, I’ve only left the house a few times to go to the shops. No rides or walks! I did manage one session on the gym bike, that’s it. There is no excuse for not doing more of that – it is just sat there waiting to be used. I’ve been busy developing some little websites and have prioritised that over my fitness.
Gym Bike Session #3, 2010
I’m still feeling very little temptation to cycle outdoors. It was grey earlier and then it started snowing again – aargh! At this rate, my first audax ride of the year in 2.5 weeks time is under threat. (That’s the Mini North-West Passage.)
So, instead, I did another 65 minute session on the exercise bike this afternoon.
I’d forgotten to install the DVD playback software on my laptop so I stuck to listening to music on today’s session.
