What the fuck?

I went out for a run last night. This will be the first time I actually ran more than 20 yards since about 1995. It felt really good!

But it lasted just 15 minutes.

Healthy May update

I'm really unfit. Really unfit. I just went out on the bike and I feel totally fucked...

Distance: 2.25 miles (edit - Tora, that's a mere 3.62km. But the hills are steep!)
Trip time: 14m 39s
Average speed: 9.79mph (edit - 15.76kmh)
Max speed: 30.93mph (edit - 49.78kmh)

I only did that, and I'm sweating like Lisa Riley under studio lights. Isn't that fairly pathetic?

Haven't smoked since Tuesday though. 5 days, woot!

Healthy May update 1

Well, last weekend was bank holiday weekend. I had Friday as holiday (was supposed to have the previous Monday, but I forgot about it and came to work anyway. d'oh!) and Monday was the bank holiday so everyone got a day off. Awesome-o!

And how did I spend this extra get-healthy-you-fat-bastard time?

Tonsil-fucking-itis.

So I wasn't really in the mood to go out on the bike, or do weights. On the plus side, I could eat fuck all because it hurt too much when I swallowed. Doc said I should have gone to see him sooner, and if I'd have left it any longer I'd have developed an abcess on my throat. Nice!

However, I'm on penicillin now and it's just about cleared up. And, on the even-brighter side, I got an appointment with the stop-smoking lady while I was at the docs. Friday morning, I get a one-to-one session that will help me break this stupid addiction once and for all!

I did go out on Sunday afternoon though, for a few pints with Rob & Anwen. And then went out with my brother that night and got totally slaughtered. By the end of the night we'd moved on to drinking Absinthe, and we (3 of us) had an improvised rave on my parents' driveway at the end of the night.

Oh, I spent Monday in the pubs too. All day.

But I'm back at the healthy thing now. Yesterday I ran the regular bike route, and felt a little less knackered that I usually do. Awesomes. I'd like to go out on the bike again tonight, but I have youth work so I won't have time :( Still, there's always tomorrow night, and I have all next week off, so I can put in a shitload of extra work. And my cycle computer should be delivered by the end of the week so I can start recording proper mileages and stuff. FUCK ME, I AM AWESOME. And you all love me. It's true. In fact, you should show me exactly how much you love me, by sending bikiniphotos.

Healthy May

Ryan and I are going for an uber-healthy month, starting tomorrow May 1^st. We figure that a whole month of hard work will be enough to change lifestyle, and get us on the road to buffness for summer. Here's the list of shit I'm gonna do:

• Quit smoking again.. This pack should last me 'til the end of today, and I have some nicotine replacement things lined up for tomorrow.


• Cycling. I have a 2.5 mile route that I've been trying to ride regularly. Plenty of hills of varying gradient. Nice.


• More cycling. The back-road ride from my parents to town is 5.5 miles (clicky clicky!) with plenty of hills. While I can't cycle to work (no shower facilities and it'll take too long to start with), I can get a lift in and cycle home from work. Also, cycling into town and back on the weekends is a possibility.


• Eat less crap. I've already been fruiting the hell out of my stomach, and my ev-en-ink meals have been smaller and contained more veg that I used to eat. I'm gonna keep this up, but also try to cut out my one-a-day pack of crisps, and stop theiving biscuits from the stash here at work.


• More weights. More muscle mass means meaner metabolism. Shitty alliteration aside, having bigger / firmer muscles means your body works harder, so you burn fat. Simple!

With this, I should be feeling way healthier in time for my birthday (23^rd in case you were wondering), and we'll both be totally fucking buff for summer. Awesome-O!

I'll try to keep a diary of my amazing awesomeness here, including my weight (as recorded by some really shitty scales), cycling times (must order a cycling computer today), an account of how totally fucked I feel, and I might even use one of them camerawhatsits to see if there's a visible change over the month.