Hi to all and hope you've had a good day.
Last year I took up cycling again after a long absence from it. At first it just started off as a nice round the countryside just to clear my head of some difficult problems I was facing in my personal life ,but as we all know cycling can be very addictive and I have progressed a fair way to the point I'm now managing to do 70 mile rides. The more I am doing the more i started to look at my improvements and how to improve on them. At the beginning it was more focused on cardiovascular exercise and trying not to get to out off puff here on these Welsh hills. As time went by, and fitness levels increased I started looking at my bike and clothing to make longer rides more comfortable. Lots of adjustments to the bike as well subtle upgrades and some decent cycling clothing now made my longer days in the saddle palatable. I could go on forever spending more and more money ( if the bank would allow ) on looking for that lighter faster bike but I have to pull the reigns in at some point other wise I could and end up becoming to obsessed with it all..
One thing though, that I know could be improved on is my health namely my diet...
Since my beautiful wife of 25 years decided to run off with an old best friend of mine my diet has taken a nose dive. Gone are the veggie meals she used to cook, and in with the microwave meals that are cooked to charred remains. Don't get me wrong I do eat healthily but when your out at work 12 hours a day it's all to easy to just cook something easy which usually results in being unhealthy. My weight has plummeted since cycling so its definitely having a positive effect but i do have a few health issues I would like to address. Smoking is one which I'm trying to give up, but the other problems I suffer from is restless leg syndrome. It drives me mad at night. It usually comes on at night when I'm tired and it feels like your legs are crawling with excess energy. Some nights it gets that bad I feel like I could just get up and gone out on a monumental bike ride to get rid of all this energy that's stored up. In the day time at work I will often tap my feet to alleviate the symptoms. Thankfully I have my own office so it doesn't annoy anybody around me. Apparently this problem is usually caused by a lack of vitamin d deficiency which could also account for my lack of energy some days and very slow healing of cuts when I get them.
Obviously nothing is better than a proper change in my dietary habits ,but while I make a more conscious effort to not cremating my food and eat more green stuff, will vitamin supplements make any discernible improvements towards my general health. I've never taken ,or considered taking them before now and was wondering are they just a waste of money.
I just want to get back on track again with my health and increase my cycling goals further and live to a ripe old age.
Once again ,and as always, many thanks for reading and views that you may want to post here .
Johnny
Last year I took up cycling again after a long absence from it. At first it just started off as a nice round the countryside just to clear my head of some difficult problems I was facing in my personal life ,but as we all know cycling can be very addictive and I have progressed a fair way to the point I'm now managing to do 70 mile rides. The more I am doing the more i started to look at my improvements and how to improve on them. At the beginning it was more focused on cardiovascular exercise and trying not to get to out off puff here on these Welsh hills. As time went by, and fitness levels increased I started looking at my bike and clothing to make longer rides more comfortable. Lots of adjustments to the bike as well subtle upgrades and some decent cycling clothing now made my longer days in the saddle palatable. I could go on forever spending more and more money ( if the bank would allow ) on looking for that lighter faster bike but I have to pull the reigns in at some point other wise I could and end up becoming to obsessed with it all..
One thing though, that I know could be improved on is my health namely my diet...
Since my beautiful wife of 25 years decided to run off with an old best friend of mine my diet has taken a nose dive. Gone are the veggie meals she used to cook, and in with the microwave meals that are cooked to charred remains. Don't get me wrong I do eat healthily but when your out at work 12 hours a day it's all to easy to just cook something easy which usually results in being unhealthy. My weight has plummeted since cycling so its definitely having a positive effect but i do have a few health issues I would like to address. Smoking is one which I'm trying to give up, but the other problems I suffer from is restless leg syndrome. It drives me mad at night. It usually comes on at night when I'm tired and it feels like your legs are crawling with excess energy. Some nights it gets that bad I feel like I could just get up and gone out on a monumental bike ride to get rid of all this energy that's stored up. In the day time at work I will often tap my feet to alleviate the symptoms. Thankfully I have my own office so it doesn't annoy anybody around me. Apparently this problem is usually caused by a lack of vitamin d deficiency which could also account for my lack of energy some days and very slow healing of cuts when I get them.
Obviously nothing is better than a proper change in my dietary habits ,but while I make a more conscious effort to not cremating my food and eat more green stuff, will vitamin supplements make any discernible improvements towards my general health. I've never taken ,or considered taking them before now and was wondering are they just a waste of money.
I just want to get back on track again with my health and increase my cycling goals further and live to a ripe old age.
Once again ,and as always, many thanks for reading and views that you may want to post here .
Johnny
