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New Bike = New Me
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23-07-2014 7:50pm#1First off this wont be a log with millions of miles, Its for me to stay interested and focused on my goal.... Weight Loss!!!!
I've always being a little on the heavy side but never fat, So food was never something I paid attention to because I was always doing some sort of training so I could treat myself to a big mc at will until around November last year when I started a 30 day challenge with the guys I used to do TRX with, losing 8 kg and 6% body fat.
Recently I was involved in a RTA and with the drivers insurance company insisting on settling on nearly 3 times my expenses and time off work I found myself sitting on a little extra pocket money the same month as my 30th. After a few thoughts of how I should use the money the OH suggested a really good bike and use the current bike ( lapierre audacio 400) as my commuter and winter bike.
A trip to my LBS after many night googling and oogling over bikes I had an idea what I wanted. I went in thinking Felt AR4 until I spoke to Derek Humphries and he suggest letting him build a bike for the money I had to spend.
Enter stage left a Kardan K1, Ultegra 11sp, Campy Zondas and Deda finishing kit
As soon as I collected it one thing popped into my head - The weight(or lack of)
After a few days off work and a few short spins and some hills I start thinking about how good the bike really could be if I lost a bit of weight too.
Playing around with Garmin connect and syncing MyFittnessPal I decided 70kg should be target weight and 10 weeks time should be my target - The Cork Rebel Tour.
Cycling alone wont do it for me so my diet will need to be managed, Calorie intake in particular. I'm a fairly clean eater but and a sucker for overeating. The result is me currently being 78kg, According to the phone app I'm allowed a balance of 1685 calories a day. The app syncs up with Garmin connect so what's burned off cycling can be replaced with a further intake.
After my first 3 days of calorie counting I'm feeling good and importantly not hungry and even had about 300 or so calories left available to me each day. The app is a big help and has a massive data base so searching for food to add to your diary is easy and has a barcode scanner too to cut down search times.
I'm going to have one last weekend of indulgence as I use up the last of the bday excuses and head out over the weekend to a few comedy gigs, After that I'm living by one simple rule - If it's white, It's Sh*te.
I'll be trying a food plan the food plan I used back in November so hopefully the results should be the same.
Its a case of eating little but often, 5 meals a day but small and easy to break down.
I've recently finished a shed out the back with plenty of room so the TRX rope will be out along with some kettle bells to add some short high intensity workouts in the evenings.
Day 1 78.8kg. 8.8kg and 10 weeks to go2
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07Lapierre wrote: »Best of luck with this..
Set yourself a target of cycling 200k per week and you can eat what you like!
I can very easily put on weight cycling 200km+ a week! I wish that was true!
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07Lapierre wrote: »In your case the extra weight is probably muscle
And with that I've just copped how wrong I've approached this! Fat burning is my main goal hence throwing in some TRX workouts.0 -
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Pretty much the worst kind of day I could have had on the bike.
After a heavy night of drinking I didn't even look at the bike yesterday and ate sh!t all day.
I did however go shoe shopping
Unfortunately I didn't get on to great with the shoes, the sole is extremely stiff(what I was after) and I just could get the fit right, too loose then too tight, then too loose again! lots of numbness in the toes at times too.
I had 110 planned today with the first 25km with the other half, that part went fine, spun out to the grange had a bit to eat then left her at Blakes cross, headed north as far as Balbriggan and kicked to pick up the pace.....boom nothing there!
No matter what direction I was going I was into a head wind and with nothing in the legs and getting annoyed with myself every time I ever time I tried move the pace on Loughshinny was the last straw. Went from Rush to Lusk and headed towards swords, the plan was to head towards malahide from there and do a few laps of Howth but I gave up and continued on home to Coolock. 75km done with a pitiful 25kmh average0 -
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Didn't get as much of a cycle as I planned for yesterday but am very proud of the other half for doing her first sportif.
She still isn't overly comfortable riding behind someone one and has this thing were if she catches them she is going around them.
found a pic of the two of us finishing yesterday.
She had a horrible day with her saddle coming loose out of nowhere and not having an allen key to fit with us she trooped on and suffered big time on some hills with it moving about
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