Yesterday as I was walking out to the garage for an easy bike ride along the coast I suddenly changed my mind and decided to go up Portsdown Hill to Fort Nelson.
I then decided to see how far I have come in the last two years.
February 2012
Haribo Joe had finally convinced me to go for a bike ride with him and let me choose the route. I decided to push myself my going up Portsdown Hill which overlooks Portsmouth. I wanted to keep it interesting for him as he was doing a lot of cycling at the time.
It is a 12 mile round trip, with a "mountain" to climb to get to the half way point.
The total time was 1 hour 47, but the total riding time was 1 hour 22. I needed a very good rest at the top of the hill. This is where my profile photo was taken.
I came back a broken man.
But is was the start.
October 2014
I have done the route in 54:45 so I knew I had to really push it to beat this time. I really focused on getting back up to speed after junctions etc.
"It never gets easier, you just faster."
It hurt!
Normally when I get back into Stubbington I ease off to cool down, but not this time I was pushing all the way as I had a time to beat.
My time was 53:00!
This is the segment on Strava for more details Fort Nelson Segment
While looking at the results it did hit me that I have cycled from fat to fit as the title of the blog promises.
That first ride didn't nearly kill me, it started me on a great journey to become a lot fitter.
As you can see I have started running.
I decided to do this as I wanted to mix things up. Cycling is great but you are stuck in one position all the time, not working all the stabilising muscles.
I'm doing the couch to 5k program, using the NHS podcasts. The music is very cheesy but it is simple, you don't have to worry about timings.
You run a bit and then walk a bit and repeat, doing the same run 3 times a week and then the next week the amount of running increases a bit.
The first two weeks went ok, but it stirred things up in my hips/pelvis where I have had previous issues.
I expected this and should have done a lot more stretching to compensate.
On Friday afternoon my right ankle started hurting and I could hardly walk, but I knew with a lot of stretching it would be sorted. Saturday it was feeling a lot better, Sunday is was nearly right.
However I was so focused on sticking to the plan of doing 3 runs a week that I went for a run on Sunday when I really shouldn't have.
It was also the first run of week 3, with quite a big jump up in the amount of running.
It was feeling ok, but then I felt something go.
Yes I should have stopped and walked home, but for some stupid reason I didn't which probably made it worse.
It is on the mend, and I will repeat some if not all of week 2 again when it is ready. There is no rush.
My weight is stuck at 112.5kg.
My heaviest was 134kg, so I am really pleased with a loss of over 21kg, but I need to lose more.
I'm going to start using the MyFitnessPal app seriously again to track my food, and even look at reducing carbs as I do know they make up too much of my calorie intake.
I'm in a much better place than I was two years ago, what will the next two years bring?
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