Exmoor_Kes
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- Location
- Exmoor, Devon
Damn, we've got some bluddy big hills around here...
Greetings from a fat old bird on Exmoor. Dug out the bike today to give myself a baseline ride to work from. On a fitness scale of 1-10 where 10 is Alistair Brownlee standard and 1 is a ringside seat at the local funeral parlour, I clock in at about a minus five.
Asthma is a problem for me, but the greater issue is unbelievably poor fitness levels, despite being a distance swimmer. So to ensure the lungs keep doing their funky thang and I can enjoy my swimming and surfing more, I've decided to start on a 30-minutes a day programme which will probably kill me in the first week.
The bike's purple. It came from a reclamation yard, has been converted into a multi-gear thingy mountain-bike wotsit by my amazing engineering hubby-to-be, and it hates me at the moment.
I fixed the seat on it yesterday, so according to the current Royal Navy recruitment advert, that makes me capable of fixing a Lynx helicopter, although I wouldn't bet your shirt on it if I were you.
Looking forward to a)surviving the next month, b)getting to know you lovely folks, and c)being able to make it up "That Hill" without throwing up.
Happy trails!
Kes
Greetings from a fat old bird on Exmoor. Dug out the bike today to give myself a baseline ride to work from. On a fitness scale of 1-10 where 10 is Alistair Brownlee standard and 1 is a ringside seat at the local funeral parlour, I clock in at about a minus five.
Asthma is a problem for me, but the greater issue is unbelievably poor fitness levels, despite being a distance swimmer. So to ensure the lungs keep doing their funky thang and I can enjoy my swimming and surfing more, I've decided to start on a 30-minutes a day programme which will probably kill me in the first week.
The bike's purple. It came from a reclamation yard, has been converted into a multi-gear thingy mountain-bike wotsit by my amazing engineering hubby-to-be, and it hates me at the moment.
I fixed the seat on it yesterday, so according to the current Royal Navy recruitment advert, that makes me capable of fixing a Lynx helicopter, although I wouldn't bet your shirt on it if I were you.
Looking forward to a)surviving the next month, b)getting to know you lovely folks, and c)being able to make it up "That Hill" without throwing up.
Happy trails!
Kes