Went for a ride last night (needed to make amends for Mondays night weigh-in disaster), decided on a short quick blast, along the river bank loop round the field and back along the riverbank and as I had not ridden the Cannondale for a few weeks decided to give it an outing. In my haste to get going I forgot to pick up my sunglasses, it was not particularly sunny evening anyway. I headed of to the river bank and no sooner do I get on the path along the river bank, I am collecting bugs in my eyes and mouth, it was even worse when the path was shady and enclosed by the undergrowth. I soon learn to keep my head down and my mouth shut although one particular bug in the eye nearly had me in the river as I could not keep my eyes open.
I will make sure I wear my sun glasses on on my next ride.
Apart from the bugs the ride was almost uneventful until a mile from home when a visit from the puncture fairy had me pushing the bike home. I had all the bits with me to sort the puncture out but with the dark threatening clouds looming above decided to push the bike home.
I have entered myself into one of those organised rides, this one is organised by Evans Cycles and is being held at Liphook, Hampshire on 21st August. I have entered the 25mile ride although I may ride the 30 milers. This will be my first organised ride, I was going to do one of these rides in January but it was snowed off. Anybody else having a crack at this?
With any luck I might have got my link to Facebook working, will only know when I publish this, so lets find out
I decided to updates the wife blog to Word Press 3 last night. I must admit I was surprised at how quick and easy it was. In fact so impressed and how easy it was I decided to update this site as well, 20 minutes later the blog is running of Word Press version 3. I only had one minor hic-up and that was the fact that I lost the code for the visitors from around the world by after a bit of faffing around I found the code and everything is now up and running as it was……………unless you know different??
Not much to report on the cycling front, never went for a mid week ride, never went for a Saturday ride, only did a short ride (9.8 miles) today at Wilverley Plain in the New Forest, was mainly flat but interesting with a lot of scope for extending the route if you wanted.
No doubt the lack of riding will reflect on my weigh in tomorrow night……………I am not holding my breath.
I have uploaded the route on to GPSies.com (click on the link at the bottom of this post). I have found this site quite useful for finding routes. I have also uploaded three of my routes on to the site which can be downloaded in a variety of GPS formats.
I am now 4st lighter, in fact it is 4st 1lb lighter and it has taken 2 years, of dieting, you could say I am slightly chuffed to be 17st 8lb
For those of you that have not followed my blog, I started dieting with Slimming World after the doctor told me the results of a blood test showed I was heading towards diabetes. The wife was already a Slimming World member, so I joined on the 21st July 2008, just on 2 years to the day. It has not been easy, there have been many times when I felt like saying sod it, but I have stuck with and the fact that I am now 4st lighter is proof that it was worth it.
I have to say thank you to a few people as I would not of got this far with out them, Alison Yorke-Saville at Slimming World for keeping me going, Clive at Massive MTBer, he has been an inspiration and given me the encouragement to keep going (he will hate me for saying that) and finally the wife for putting up with me when it has all gone wrong.
I still have a long way to go (at least another 4st) but at least I am doing something about it
Finally, daft thought of the day, my weight loss is the equivalent weight of 396 jam doughnuts!!
