Glorious weather today, predicted to come to an abrupt halt tomorrow. Still, never mind, I enjoyed spring while it lasted.
After an easy day yesterday (11 miles) stepped back up today with a 30 miler. Very pleased with 2hrs 15 mins of non stop pedalling (13.3mph). Have to do a 40 next week…….

..the mileage that is. 25 today on the bike, just under 2 hours non stop. Ian reckons on cycling in three hour stints, so got a lot more work to do yet. Another session with the chiropracter in the afternoon, reassembling my bones. Not as painful as the last time, fortunately, but lots of ‘adjustments’ still required. Back again in a fortnight…..

Looking at the route, was wondering whether we should add in detours to Ben Nevis, Scaffell Pike & Snowdon?. What do you reckon guys?
On the basis that any upward slope currently has me reaching for an oxygen mask, that might be a tad too challenging….
21 miles on the bike today, quite tough as it was more than just a bit breezy, but averaged 13mph so quite satisfied. Hope to get some more mapping done later.

 Bit tight for time with domestic responsibilities, but squeezed in 12 miles on the bike. Still aching quite a bit, but hopefully manage further tomorrow…..

…well thats my excuse for 2 more ‘rest days’. I did ache a lot, so I’m not sure that running last Thursday was such a good idea. Hopefully that was just coincidence. Anyway the rain and gales had abated this morning (Sunday) and the sun was shining so I set off on my bike for a gentle jaunt. 17 uneventful miles round local lanes at an average 12.7 mph. Hopefully the sort of pace we’ll maintain during the trip. Just got to go 6 times as far( every day)  without slowing down then, eh?. Hmmmm……..

Being the weekend I thought I should really get out on my bike, alas sadly all I managed today was a walk to the local Sainsbury’s. Still it was exercise wasn’t it? … My excuse of eating bad things is also starting to wear a bit thin now, today I have probably consumed more calories than Chris Moyles does in an average week. Tomorrow I am starting a diet, no more sugary things is the diet, stodgey starchy things are still ok but absolutely no chocolate & sweets. I’m replacing those with fruit.

I’ve done it, two weeks since I started cycling to work and I’ve bagged 160 miles in training. As of next week I have to do it without bank holidays as cusioning so I’ll be up to 100 miles a week. I seem to be getting fitter but progress seems slow, I’m still getting very tired come the evening and have little energy to do anything more than just vegitate in front of the telly.

Taken me a week since getting the OK ,to pluck up courage and attempt a run. Almost 14 months since my back went after a run, and it showed! Following instructions I ran 2 mins, walked 2 mins, ran again etc.. Once I’d mastered the one leg in front of the other thing, it went OK. 2 mins at a time was plenty…. So far so good, the back doesn’t ache any more than it did beforehand.

24mins running, 22 mins walking, 4 miles in total 

I’m sorry it has taken so long but I’ve finally blogged. My work ethic seems to have ignored my life needs, but hey we’ll address that later, and let’s not get any psychotherapists excited about any of my ‘issues’.

I wrote a training plan at Christmas but have achieved only half of my goals thus far. According to the schedule I should be doing forty miles twice a week, but I’d be lucky to get one session of twenty in, let alone doing four times that. Still we are gaining hours of light by the day and I’ll soon get in the groove.

Most of my training has been indoors with the cross trainer, hoovering, lifting cans of lager and opening wine bottles amongst other key life critical activities, its cold outside and it gets cold and wet outside and it often gets colder and wetter outside.Don’t get me wrong, I have done some proper stuff too, I’ve been swinging about in tree’s, chasing lawnmower’s and I’ve been working on equipment pricing etc, but I do need to knuckle down, and get some serious mileage in.

The last twenty mile burn resulted in a bike overhaul with new pedal plates and some serious language encouragement. That aside, I am still very excited about the forthcoming adventure and will post another blog soon.

Today is day 7 of my cycling to work ‘experiment’ and I can safely say it’s going rather well. I do have the odd thought about hopping on a tube and I do get extremely tired in the evenings and slob out infront of the telly. However it has its benefits, take today, it was sunny, relatively mild, a day I’d much rather be out doors than stuck on a stinky tube. Some benefits I probably shouldn’t admit to are that I now eat what ever I like without feeling guilty, the odd fried breakfast, a mars bar at lunch, a pizza after work. Maybe a McDonalds thrown in at the weekend, its all good. So my anticipated weight loss isn’t going quite to plan but I feel a lot better.

I noticed that today’s nice weather brought out the ‘occasional’ cyclists who normally tube in but when the weather’s nice they hop on their bike. It was actually a little congested in places with so many bikes on the road. The ‘occasional’ cyclists are the ‘L’ plate drivers of the cycling world, slow and lacking in confidence.

My cycle log is now up at 60miles (in the last 7 days). By tomorrow evening I will have hit the 80mile mark. 20miles a day seems a long way off from cycling 100miles in a day but its a start.

For this mornings cycle check out this link

 http://sportstracker.nokia.com/nts/workoutdetail/index.do?id=119315