Fitness

So to get my daughter some decent swimming lessons, I joined the local gym last week. Under my membership, she gets access to the pool (nice - 25m), and some pretty good teachers. But it’d be a shame if I didn’t take advantage of the facilities, wouldn’t it? So this morning at 6:45 I found...
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I had my induction at the gym yesterday evening. The alarmingly young personal trainer (is it me, or does everyone in uniform look younger these days - especially police). The usual measures - height, weight, lungs, body fat, heart rate, BP, etc. As expected, I could do with losing around 1.5 kg (a massive...
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I got another puncture today. Like the ‘number 13 bus’, these things seem to come along in groups. Just over a mile from home at the end of my Sunday ride, I heard the usual ‘hisssssing’ that means the bike’s handling’s about to go to pot. Again, this was in a tyre whose inner-tube had...
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My target this year is to get my 10k down to 40 minutes. I also want to graduate to Olympic distance triathlon (which features a 10k run). With my running fitness in rather poor shape, I’ve opted for a programme of interval training to get me back to peak pavement pounding performance. Interval training is...
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I had 39 miles to do today if I was to set off on the right foot for my 3,000 miles in 2007 target. I’d planned this to be easy - meeting up with a friend in Newcastle for a 20 mile circuit, plus the ten miles each way into and out of town. But...
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As part of the maintenence I did on my bike today, I also adjusted the saddle height & positioning over the pedals. This was because on recent rides, I’ve found my thighs getting tired (that numb, achy, burning feeling) rather sooner than I’d like. This is symptomatic of either working too hard on the bike...
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It was time to give my bike a minor service today - new brake blocks, then clean & lube the chain, derailleur, pedals, cables & brake pivot mechanisms. So even though it’s STILL really windy here (but now only 23 mph ), I just had to head out for a test ride this...
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I’m quite happy with my chart for tracking progress towards my 2007 target of 3,000 cycle miles. But now I want to draw up something similar for my running. The problem is that my running target is more speed related - I want to achieve a personal best of 40 minutes for 10k. This is...
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Last year I developed a bit of a ‘thing’ for Peanut Butter Kit Kats. Actually, it was more of a habbit (a really serious habit), and after a while, it got me thinking. Was it really Peanut Butter, or perhaps another ‘golden brown‘ substance? I mean after all, Nestlé’s marketing of milk formula is...
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I want a recumbent bike right now . . . a really low one with full fairing. You know how I’ve just got to do 125 miles by Sunday, or I’ll be behind on my 3,000 miles in 2007 almost before I’ve started? Well I had to visit a firm most of the way into...
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