Day one of my new fitness regime, this time cycling!!
So I went out on my bike at 4.30pm quite excited having finished promptly at Raintree so I could get out on it, got back from work, got changed and straight out on the bike. Up to the roundabout and down the Witney Road – managed to get a really good speed. It certainly helped having all the cars sat in the traffic not being able to get anywhere and it gave me that incentive to go zooming passed them all.
Got past Eynsham and Cassington and then the road disintegrated so turned back on myself and instead of returning to Oxford went left towards the Hanboroughs. That wasn’t the best idea as by now I’d been out for 45 minutes and was starting to feel a bit flaky and tired – already!!
On checking where I was at Church Hanborough I realised I was halfway to what I wanted to do so I decided to continue on to Long Hanborough and through Bladon. Walked a bit in Bladon and then got to the Woodstock roundabout and came back passed the airport and to home
All in all, I did 15 miles – took me an hour and 20 minutes and it was hard. I struggled to be fair and I am concerned now about the cycle ride. I definite, definitely, definitely have to work on this to get anywhere near the fitness I need to be at as it’s affectively a marathon. And that really is the best description for this, it’s a marathon for bikes because on doing the maths, even if I managed something as good as 15 miles an hour that is still 8 hours that I will have to cycle for, and I think 15mph is being very generous indeed, I can’t see that happening!
So, yeah, I don’t think I realised or appreciated how hard this is actually going to be – but it’s a challenge. It will help with my legs, arms and back because these are killing me now but it’s really given me an incentive to get up to speed. It’s going to drive Tash mad as it will be very time-consuming
Let’s see how it goes!
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