For the first time in many years my weight is in the 18 stone bracket. It was weigh in night on Monday night and for the first time in a few weeks I had a good weight loss (4.5lbs to be exact) and managed to crack the barrier that had been holding me back for a while now. I can’t think to many people would be happy to be 18st but for now I am but I don’t intend to hang around in the 18st bracket for to long. My eye’s are already set on a much lower weight target, not sure exactly what my target I want to be but is but I have a target area in my mind.
My next target is a lot closer which I would like to hit next week, though it would mean losing the same amount again this week (or more which I have done in the past), so I am looking for a good week this week and fingers crossed for Monday night.
I am hoping the extra bike riding I have been doing will help, been out riding the past two days and going out again tomorrow for a long ride. Yesterday was only a short ride but we tried a completely new area of Hurn Forest. There was a large hill which we both walked up because apart from being quite steep it was a deep sandy\dirt track. Once we got to the top there was a large hill to go down, by the time I got to the bottom I had blurred vision it was that bumpy. Today’s ride was longer but cut short again as our son ran out of legs and the wife got another puncture (front tyre this time). So I rode back to the other end of the trail to collect the car and drive around and pick up my son and wife. Mind you I did have a nice ride back at speed and without having to wait for anybody. Even managed to get up the big dip which was also nice.
As the wife’s bike had different valves which meant carrying two pumps (and we left her pump in the car 4 miles away from where she got the puncture) I bit the bullet and bought two new inner tubes (actually bought three, got a spare for the ruck sack we carry) with the same valves that my bike has which means we only have to carry the small pump with us.
Tomorrows ride is out in the New Forest again, not sure which route we are going on yet. Once the riding is over it is back to the bike shop to drop the bikes off for their first service (on Thursday). Let hope I can get out of the shop without the temptation to spend anymore in money in there.
