V Day / Weigh Day

Week 51 – 2.5lb loss – Back to 4st total loss
The return to exercise and the stopping of feeling sorry for myself has reaped some rewards this week with a - 2.5lb loss from last week. Back to a total weight loss of 4 stones in 51 weeks. It’d be really good to lose another half pound or more next week so that I’d have a total loss of over four stone in a year. That’d be good, am dead pleased to be losing again though rather than these rotten little gains of the last few weeks.


Nice to see a bit of daylight under the fifteen stone line (210lbs)

Velo City
Was reading an article by James Daley who does a cycling column for the Independent. The article was mainly about Ken Livingston’s plans for investing in infrastructure to improve cycling in London and get more people onto two wheels, which is sensible stuff in my biased opinion. He’s talking about putting in a dozen cycling corridors to speed up access for cyclists into the heart of London which again sounds great but how will he do it??

The article makes reference to something called Velo City which is an enclosed, raised off the ground tubular cycle-way. Each tube only goes in one direction and the resulting airflow from cyclists all heading in the same direction gives a natural tail-wind making it more efficient. Am not sure if it’s a goer as yet but the architect of the idea a chap called Chris Hardwick has presented the idea for the city of Toronto in his role as local architect.

It’d cost an absolute fortune but what a cool idea…

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/james-daley-cyclotherapy-781939.html

http://www.velo-city.ca/MainFrameset.html



I like the idea of cycling in clear tubes, shielded from the elements with a tail wind regardless of where you were going! That's the future for sure!!!

7am

All things looking good today. B.P. 116/84 for starters. Ran a couple of unrecorded miles last night to nephew Ben's and back to sort out his Tiscali Broadband - just for reference Tiscali's Tech support from my experience is absolute cak - queued for ages then the bloke says oh the server down, try again tomorrow. In actual fact there was nothing wrong with the problem we had - namely Ben's username and password not being correct but somehow we got the internet connection working by going straight into the router. So all's well I suppose but don't expect great things from out-sourced Tech Support on the indian sub-continent would be my advice.

This morning did a good 3.5 miles as was a bit late setting off at a nice steady 6.1mph (9:53/mile) pace - getting okay at this running mullarkey! Exact specs were 3.57miles in 35:21 which is okay in my book.