Not the most inspirational of titles but it was the best I could do
So there I was Jan 1st 2010 having my breakfast when I came across a news story on Bike Radar web site about a guy called Clive Chapman, I won’t cover the story here but suffice to say he is the same size as me. Having read his story and visited his blog I found that there are quite a few of us large guys around returning to cycling. A few days earlier I had come across Frank Kinlans web site, he has lost over 7 stone which he achieved with the help of cycling (and diet as well).
These two site got me thinking, my weight loss is not moving a long as well as I wanted (and yes I know that is down to me), and with the thought that I wanted to do something with this blog I decided that I would use this blog to catalogue my weight loss and my bike riding and hopefully this would spur me along. To be perfectly honest I had kept by diet not secret but quiet, although those around me at work had noticed the slightly slimmer me. Not sure why I had kept my diet quiet but sticking it on this blog is making it public and if it helps me lose weight I am not going to argue.
So lets back up a couple of days, I had intended to do as much cycling over the Christmas and New Year holidays as I could, it was my intention to use the cycling to help balance out the extra intake of food over Christmas. Not a perfect system by any means but I wanted to ensure that I did not have a weight gain over Christmas like I had last year. Well I have up to and including today, I ridden on 6 of the 10 days and totalled 84.3 miles and I still intend to ride again tomorrow although this is likely to be a short ride as I normally have wife and son with me. On two of the days I did not ride I went for a walk and totalled 13 miles so I think the exercise side of things is working. I tired to keep my intake of food down, in part this failed as at my last weigh in night I had gained weight.
While Clive is fortunately enough to be able to ride to work I can’t, 240 mile round trip does not make for a good cycle ride, well not at the speed I cycle anyway. So my riding is done over the weekends. In the summer months I intend to get out and do so evening rides which I can’t do at the moments as I have not got any decent lights.
Well I am going to end on a funny, you see I am not the only large arse on my local cycling trail, but at least I don’t block the entire path
Apparently they are Long Horn Shetland Cattle, they are used to control the heathland. They can seem a little imposing stood in the middle of the track and there is you and your mountain bike trying to get past!
