Comments on: Summary of Christmas Week

By: ColinJ

ColinJ — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:11:40 +0000

Mallorca Christmas sunshine – sounds great!

HNY to you and Mark (and anybody else who drops in to read this!). I hope that I’ll get the chance to cycle with you both again this year, but preferably when I’m fit enough to keep up!

By: ColinJ

ColinJ — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:08:32 +0000

I read that quote at the time and it made me realise that I actually felt strangely vulnerable in 2001, when I was last skinny. I’m so used to being fat that it was quite unnerving to lose weight quickly and start feeling the cold again after years of being well-insulated. I looked gaunt and fragile, but I have to admit that my cycling was transformed. I don’t think that I want to go down to that kind of weight again (11 st 10 lbs, 164 lbs, 74 kg). Maybe somewhere in the range 12 st 4 lbs – 12 st 7 lbs (172 lbs – 175 lbs, 78 kg – 79.5 kg) would be a good compromise for me. I’d be pretty slim and able to cycle up hills respectably but I wouldn’t look like I had a terminal illness.

Yes, using exercise to calm me down and de-stress would make more sense than self-medicating with beer. So would sorting out the problems that stress me out in the first place. Must try harder…

By: Blonde

Blonde — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:38:23 +0000

Yep, it’s definitely not worth risking any kind of injury trying to cycle in snowy or icy conditions. We haven’t been cycling at all in the UK for the last three weeks – unless you count laps at Manchester velodrome. We did manage 4 days of cycling in Mallorca over Christmas though – It was sunny and 23 degrees Celsius in Pollenca on Tuesday afternoon!

By: Mark Rushton

Mark Rushton — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:32:24 +0000

Let the recent words of Fashion Queen Kate Moss be your mantra, Colin.

‘Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’

Not that I recommend a cocaine/alcohol diet but moderate diet and exercise.

By: ColinJ

ColinJ — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:26:22 +0000

Hi Andy.

Yeah, I was a bit peeved with that second policewoman. It was her total inflexibility and aggressive “Just do what I tell you to!” attitude that got me. I was over 50 yards from the scene of the attack and I’d already walked up and down that particular length of pavement twice and so had half the other people in the street who came out to see what was going on.

You can’t collect your bike much later in the month than NY’s Eve – you mean next year!

I’m certainly not cycling when it is icy – the cycling forums are full of people reporting broken bones and broken bikes!

By: ANDY

ANDY — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:07:26 +0000

Hi Colin,
I have to say you make the most mundane things in everyday life sound interesting,you never cease to amaze and inspire me with your motivation and positive attitude even in adversity ! great stuff.
PS Cycle collection postponed for the moment due to the weather,far to dangerous to cycle! will collect later in the month.