Shock of my life

[DR ◣◢]

Thanks again.

 

I have the best partner in the world to ride with. My wife.

[Christopher Brunsdon]

I started 2yrs back when I was 34 (stopped doing exercise when I was 15 and was obese). Just about died the first 50m on my new bike, next day had to cycle 4km to work as petrol was killing us and we have one car (and my motorbike was broken due to my fat arse). That was a tough day.

 

My commute to work involves a 150m altitude gain with gradients up to 10'

 

Before I knew it I was fit and enjoying it - now I don't want to get a car and my motorbike is still broken as I just want to cycle.

[cat-i]

I started 2yrs back when I was 34 (stopped doing exercise when I was 15 and was obese). Just about died the first 50m on my new bike, next day had to cycle 4km to work as petrol was killing us and we have one car (and my motorbike was broken due to my fat arse). That was a tough day.

 

My commute to work involves a 150m altitude gain with gradients up to 10'

 

Before I knew it I was fit and enjoying it - now I don't want to get a car and my motorbike is still broken as I just want to cycle.

 

 

WOW!!!!!!

[Christopher Brunsdon]

WOW!!!!!!

 

Should have also mentioned that my health was going south very fast then, it was not nice. Was one of those obese guys that always made excuses about WHY I could not do exercise (bad knees, bad leg, asthma, etc) and nothing was wrong with me, it was only an extra kg or two I would say but never admit it was more like an extra 30kg.

 

Sure I'm only down 12kg in 2yrs, but I never had any muscle weight then, it was just 100% lard.

 

Will never go back to my old ways and I make sure that my kids don't make my mistake. (Also told wife to start on the treadmill this week again as she has not exercised for 14mths, OK, she did have a little one 5mths back)

[Dsan]

Same thing happened to me, although my break was a little longer (20 years nearly). Decided to stop pissing around and set goals. 1000 km in 60 days, 500km in 7 days and so on.

Kept an online diary to track my progress and made use of my iPhone to track distance/speed and calorie burn.

 

Best damn decision I've made in a decade.