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Why have I not heard of this? To Google!

Oh that, right - got my favourite shorts ready!

Unfortunately it is running

Update. So basically I have been cutting out sugar slowly but surely. The only thing I was left drinking/eating it in were coffee (lots) and sweets (lots). I lost quite a bit of weight before Christmas but managed to put it all back on post Christmas Day. Since then I have not been following a diet at all, eating whatever I can get my hands on. Not good.

I have been exercising though. I have been going out far more than I used to and have been doing quite a bit of walking. I did plenty of it in Glastonbury recently and feel good. I did misbehave there though, which comprised of me eating all of my veal dish and then when Mrs JC's risotto got stuck I ate that too. The hardest part for me is obviously the meds I am on, which make me feel like I am never full. It's horrible. However, I am now taking steps to change these meds and have been slowly reducing one of them (the one that stops you feeling full). Apart from my hiccup in Glastonbury (I think my body was just crying out for carbs after all of the walking up and down hills) I've been pretty good. I had my blood done the week before last and my blood sugar is now down to 5.2 so I am no longer pre diabetic.

I think that whilst I am quite badly overweight I feel better than ever. Mostly thanks to the fact I gave up smoking about two and a half years ago and I can really tell the difference. I was starting to get to the stage with smoking where I was struggling for breath in the mornings and going up a set of stairs or walking any distance would completely leave me winded. I was beginning to worry I had done myself permanent damage, but it seems the human body is incredibly forgiving.

I saw where you were going with this... Shame no one else did.

My vision is beyond these peons

Me and the new Miss Kov, at Market Drayton 10k

Got a PB of 54:24.

Fun question.

Anyone know of a good heart rate monitor that I can wear and use while running?

My heart is less fit than my body, which is to say that before I get too tired or exhausted or feel like I need to stop exercising, my heart rate goes way too high and then goes all over the place.

This is bad, obviously. So I need to monitor the rate at all times so I don't over exert.

I have one I can post to you, or dig through my amazon orders and tell you which it was

Can get ones from Aldi, or any Bluetooth one will link to your phone

I don't know how you managed to get a PB in that heat Mark. I thought I was dying.

I honestly don't know. It was too warm

Highley tri done.

They're only cheating themselves really. As soon as they go into a competition any cheating should be exposed, as they're looking for things like the concealed motors.

They should just be allowed to use drugs.

Not sure what the answer is really, if cheating has become more accessible than ever. There's no way amateur events can be monitored to the same extent as professional ones. I can at least comprehend cheating when people are struggling and it's their actual career/money that's at stake but it's unfathomably stupid when it's just over bragging rights.

That would be just like saying that nobody should bother trying to patch games even if it means that most people get so fucked off with the cheats that they stop bothering to play it.

EPO thickens the blood enough that the human heart cannot pump it around. Cyclists were having to get up in the night and exercise to raise their heart rates to not die. Confusing blood bags made riders very ill and many drugs are not tested properly. Then you get found dead in a pile of coke on Valentine's day, alone in a hotel. Even if you were to get around these, you'd then be in "who can afford the best drugs" territory rather than the "who can afford the best training stuff" territory.

I'm doing Mt Trevereux on Sunday. May need some testosterone supps.

Except you can patch games, and really easily, to make a level playing field. Releasing a version update is somewhat easier than drug-testing every competitor. Anyway, if they're really precious about it they can go off and form their own non-drug cycling league and everyone will ignore it because they're not going at 130mph.


Pretty sure it's tricky to cheat when you're dead

I'm not entirely serious, but I do often wonder what it would be like if sports-folk were given free rein on jacking themselves up. When F1 had more freedom back in the day, all sorts of cool upgrades filtered down to the everyday cars that people drove. If athletes tested all the crazy drugs for us and found one that meant we could all work 100% harder with no ill-effects then that would be pretty sweet.

Pics from two triathlons. Slimmed down a bit in 6 months.

But they already tried it with most of them cheating and they went faster but it turned people off the sport. And I'm pretty sure that a cycling league where they are all using electric bikes would also be unpopular with cycling fans. In that case fuck 130mph people would rather just watch motorbikes doing 180mph. Anyway the article is specifically about cheating in amateur sport.

Not convinced unless there's a picture of you holding up a pair of giant trousers.

ha ha cheers..

Went for my first run in about three months today. Did my short loop as I could feel I was out of practice, but was glad to get out again and pleased with my time nonetheless. Got to get back into the rhythm I had over the winter. Felt great afterwards.

After a particularly heavy night on the ales, my friend (who I did the Yorkshire 3 peaks with) and I caught the 0743 coach to Bakewell. From there, we walked the Mondal Trail (views from there of where i got married, blue plaque fans) and caught a cab home. It is an old railway line, so flat and easy going. It was only 10 miles, but after being inactive for so long I am feeling it now. There was a bonus this afternoom when I met Julia Bradbury and giggled a bit at her.

Working from home today so decided to take the chance for a lunchtime run. Did my first 5k in four months, and whilst I was far slower than when I was doing these things regularly and it's hurt my average, I was pleased with my time. A little bit sore however. Need to keep this up and start doing them on a more regular basis

well done.

Because i have no bath, showeror sink at the moment I thougjt I would shower at swimming pool. It was £5.50! So I did 22 lengths to make it a penny a metre and a free shower.

Only the pool is 25 yards long.
Anyway, it was free today as their boiler was broken so i did another 506 metres.

I did my first brick session yesterday (cycle then run), it was hard. I seem to have lost so much fitness.

Banged around 10lbs on compared to my lowest weight

Part of it was that I no longer get the steps done on weekends, I used to be able to put my son in a buggy and walk for miles on a weekend and just let him out at the park. Now he is much more specific about where he wants to go and walks everywhere so steps are dictated by him more at weekends.

Also it feels like one or more of us has been ill for weeks since he started nursery so a lot of weekends have been spent at home doing bugger all.

So back on the steps in anger in the week and also stopped drinking as even a couple of beers makes me lazy on a weekend.

Still a good 1.5 stone lighter than when I first started this a year ago so hopefully will get it all off again in 3 months.

I've had to set myself drinking rules (only allowed at weekends) because my casual wine consumption has really changed my shape and it's harder to fit into some of my trousers.

I can still just about fit into Trousers.

He really does struggle though.

My wife stitched me up over giving up She eats some sort of chocolate every night, so when she was moaning at me (I tend to like a couple of beers more when the weathers nice) I bought up the chocolate. So she said she would cut that out if I did the same with booze.

However for her its just chocolate, she can eat any number of other sweet things. I feel like my deal should be no spirits and wine but beer is ok, but she is adamant no booze of any sort!

And 500m yesterday and 500m today. It iss taking 16 minutes to do but i am not especially hurrying. Feel fatigued now.

At least you're swimming daily. Keep it up!

It will drop to twice a week due to nursery drop offs.

How is everyone else at home showering?

They are allowed to bathe in his glory.

Superb.

They went Buxton

Just done my first 50 miles on the bike, took just over 4 hours... I am shattered now.

Done 19 miles running, and 84 miles cycling, and a few swims. My mojo is back

Yeah I've been really enjoying my running for these last few months. Starting to get a bit more speed back again. I decided to google to see if there was anything I should be doing technique-wise to do it better and it seems that without getting into anything too technical the main thing I'm doing wrong is that my step rate is too low. It's always about 158-160 when it should be more like 170-180. So I'm trying to gradually increase it. Downloaded a metronome app for my phone and tried running at 164 the other day. For what seems like a tiny difference it felt really wrong. Didn't end up going especially slow but it just seemed to make it really hard work. I guess it'll just take a bit of time to adjust to it. Need to start mixing it up with more longer runs and sprinting and stuff instead of just going out and doing 5K and the occasional 10K.

if you can join a running club, they help loads.

I don't think I'd be able to fit it in regularly enough to be worth the bother. I suppose I could look into getting a few coaching sessions or something. Not bothered about being competitive, though I might be temtped to enter some park runs soon, more just running efficiently so as not to cause injuries and stuff.

it is not about being competitive, but they can help with your running style.

I still run like a rugby player, short steps rather than longer strides...

parkruns are fab, i like doing different ones..