Category: February 2025

Weight = 106.8 Kgs

Steps Completed = 13122

So I woke up this morning at 5 am with my alarm and got out of bed and felt a bit sore and like I had been 10 rounds with Mile Tyson! So I decided that I would not Ruck this morning and just walk instead! I have decided to Ruck Monday, Wednesday and Friday for now and maybe add one Ruck at the weekend too then gradually add extra days from here.

I then did my weigh-in and I was up again to 106.8 kgs so my weight is going up not down 🙁 Although I have a feeling that the extra weight is muscle from the way my legs and stomach are aching this morning!

I then showered and got dressed and forced myself out for a walk! The walk was a bit of a struggle but it got easier once I was near the top of the hill so I was glad that I had gone walking as it got rid of most of the aches and pains! I was also glad that I decided not to wear the weight vest too 🙂

When I got home I turned on the laptop and then opened up all the windows and doors to air out the flat and got on with my morning work tasks while the house was airing.

After closing up the flat I did my 1/2 pull up which is now slightly more that half a pull up but not enough to call it 3/4 of a pull up yet so I am getting better but not a lot!

While walking I decided that I really need to work on my diet as it is being a hindrance not a help at the moment as it is basically take out crap and I need to start eating a lot cleaner than I have been or i will get caught in that exercise – get ill hell that I was in last year and I will get nothing done! I have decided not to go fully back on to the Carnivore diet just yet but I will cut out processed foods for now so I can still eat chips but just home made ones from real potatoes! I still have 24 cans of soup left so I will crack through them in the next couple of weeks and then start eating fully clean and see how that goes!

I have also decided that I really need to sort out my evening routine as it is way less productive than my morning routine and I need to start upping my steps a bit so an evening walk should get that done and also relax me for the rest of the evening! I also need to start using the rollers after my walk too so will clean the OS20 this lunch time and then put the long seat-post on it so it’s ready to use on the rollers when I get back from my parents this afternoon.

I have decided that my afternoon routine will be:

4-5 pm – Finish work and make food and eat

5-6 pm – Walk

6-7 pm – Rollers

7-7:30 – Cleaning 1/2 hour

7:30-9 pm – Chill

9-10 pm – Shower and then go to sleep

I will not add a learning hour into my routine until the walking and rollers are habits and are not stressful any more then I will add learning from 7:30-8:30 pm then I can still watch 30 minutes of tv before getting ready for bed.

Lunch times are going to be a mixture of things as I need to Rest on Mondays, go to my parents house on Tuesdays and get my walk in at lunch time on Wednesdays so that I can get my steps in at lunch as I am going to start doing gates at Andover again Wednesday nights so will not have time to get my steps done on Wednesdays. I am thinking that I will maybe go to my parents on Wednesday lunch time and work from their house Wednesday afternoons to make it easier to get to my friends house to get a lift to Andover and back. I can then walk the dog at lunch time which will be better than walking on my own too 🙂

Thursday and Friday I will ride up to the track and back to get used to riding there so when I start riding the BMX properly again I will be ready to ride to the track as a warmup.

After getting back from my Parents I still had 800 steps to go so I decided to get my steps in by getting my Son’s Supercross fixed as I brought it back from my parents house and I am going to ride it tomorrow at Andover.

I first took the cranks off of the StayStrong that I got back from the container and then fitted them to the Supercross when I checked the bottom bracket on the Supercross has seized so I swapped over the bottom bracket as well so its now smooth as butter 🙂 I then removed the back wheel as it had a puncture and I swapped the tube out for a new Tubolito and I also swapped the 16T cog for an 18T as it will be running 41 x 18 now not 38×16. I also removed the chain and fitted a new KMC K1 narrow chain to the bike! I will get a new half link chain at some point so I can slam the rear wheel more as its quite far back on the dropouts at the moment! It will do for now though!

I then put the bike back together and got it dialled in and fitted the transponder ready for gates. I then fitted the brake and cable on the Cult frame that I swapped for the dialled so that my friend can do gates on it tomorrow too.

I then fed the Axolotls and then went to bed.

By the time i finishes I was on 13122 steps so well over the 12000 target 🙂

Weight = 106.1 Kgs

Steps Completed = 12198

I woke up without an alarm at 6:45 and got up and did my weigh-in an I am up a little bit today to 106.1 kgs son nothing to worry about just yet but it shows that I need to keep doing all of my 12000 steps outside to keep the weight dropping!

After the weigh-in I messed about on my phone until 7:45 when I showered, got dresses and then went for a walk on the 2 tunnels on my usual summer loop! By the time that I got home I was on 4755 steps so a lot of walking left to do today still!

I am now chilling waiting to hear from my friend to see when he is heading to Bristol so I can go meet up and have a ride for the first time in ages!

I got to Patchway at about 12:30 and had a really good time there although I am still not feeling the OS20 so it was not as much fun as it would have been otherwise. After about an hour or so we went to Little Stoke pump track and again I had fund but it would have been better on the Curtis 🙂

I have decided that for now I will use the OS20 for my roller bike but I may break it down and sell it later in the year.

When I got home I ate and then chilled until about 19:30 when I went on the treadmill and got my steps in then I got the flat clean and then went to bed.

By the end of the day I was on 12198 steps only!

Weight = 106.6 Kgs

Steps Completed = 12298

So this morning I woke up at 5 am with my alarm and got up did my weigh-in and I am up to 106.6 kgs which will in part be due to the extra BMX muscles and partly becuse I had McDonalds for breakfast and tea so I was McDonalds fueled all day 🙁

I felt really good after BMX yesterday apart from my shoulder being a little sort where I pulled it a bit at the pump track! Luckily I stopped riding after that so it didn’t get any worse so I guess I am learning 🙂

After my weigh-in I got showered and dressed and put the weight vest and went for my morning Ruck which felt a bit more like a workout than just walking although it was much easier than it was the last time I did it so I guess the consistent walking has improved my fitness a fair bit 🙂

I also put my step counter on before the Ruck and when I got back i was on 6445 steps for just the walk and my Fitbit is reading only 6409 steps all morning and I was on 300+ steps before the ruck! I guess that this shows that the way that the Fitbit measures steps via arm swing it a bit less accurate than the old school attached to belt method! I am going to continue sing both this week and then I will get rid of the Fitbit soon!

When I got home i took off my coat and the Weight vest and changed out of my sweaty clothes and then opened up all of the doors and windows for 10 minutes while i wrote this post. I have just closed up the flat again and I am starting work.

At about 7 am I finished what I was doing and got packed up and then headed into the office on the ebike. I then worked in the office until about 11:30 ish and ebiked home again.

I then ate and watched TV all lunch time before working for the rest of the night.

I managed to get my 12000 steps in around the house doing my 30 minutes of cleaning and putting the washing away so at least I didn’t have to use the treadmill today!

Weight = 105.9 Kgs

Steps Completed = 12212

I woke up at about 7 am this morning and got up and did my weigh in and I was amazed that I had dropped 1.3 kgs this morning to 105.9 kgs which I guess highlights that getting my steps in outside is way better for weight loss than walking on the treadmill which i did a lot of this week due to my stomach bug! It also shows that going into the office in the mornings is better for me so I am going to start making an effort to get into the office in the mornings! I also went for a walk after eating in the evening so I burned off some of the food so I slept better too.

As it was almost time for it to get light I decided to chill and wait for the sun to come up this morning! While I was chilling I bought myself a digital step counter as I want to get rid of the fitbit if I can going forwards as I am not sure that it is really good for my health using it all the time. The step counter will also mean that my treadmill steps will automatically get counted so no need to stick my Fitbit in my sock any more!

I will use both together initially until I get used to using the step counter then ditch the Fitbit and just use it at night to map my sleep and use it as a silent alarm as well! I need to find a different way to wake myself up so I can ditch the Fitbit all together going forwards. I have just found THIS for £11 which should do the job!

After I got back from my walk I made some stickers and walked to the post box and posted them and when I got back I was at 6666 steps and I chilled and did some washing as I have run out of clean compression shorts so had to wear some compression tights as pants today!

I am getting the washing done then we will head over to my parents to see them and give my son some driving time as well. While there we will probably walk the dog for them so hopefully I can get to 12000 steps on that walk so I can chill for the rest of the day 🙂

So the new seat and post for my Son’s bike arrived jsut now so I will stick the seat on his bike today when I visit it and get the old seat and post off of it to go on the DK so that I can get it up for sale!

I am thinking that I may sell my Standard OS20 as well as I have too many bikes and can’t ride them all. I am not realistically going to race 20″ anyway so I may as well just keep the Curtis and my Son’s Supercross and get rid of the rest of the bikes!

My Friend has been looking for a steel OS20 bike for a while so I may sell it to him. I am meeting him tomorrow so I will see if he is interested.