Day 2230

Day 2230;

My BMI was 20.02, steps were 20,103 and I had climbed 10 flights of stairs, 2984 kcal, well that is what my watch tells me.

Breakfast: weetabix, apple, orange, banana and yogurt..

Lunch: ham, wholemeal bread, pickle and lemon cake.

Dinner: scampi, chips, peas and cheesecake.

Drinks: fruit juice, fruit squash and milky tea.

Snacks: rice cake (coated in chocolate)

Before lunchtime I had made my thousand minutes of activity for the week, by starting off slowly with a little row on the rowing machine, then I went onto a walk on the treadmill before I gave myself a jog on the treadmill after I had myself a nice little drink and snack (it was now that I had my rice cake). Needless to say that by the end of my mornings activities I had managed to get to over ten thousand steps for the day.

Now I would really like to get swimming, I have no idea as of why I want to get myself swimming again? Could it be as I want to be able to gaze at women in bikinis and other swimming costumes? That is a possibility but then why don’t I just go to the gym and gaze out of the window down on the beautiful women, or there’s also something called the internet that has loads of pictures of women in the same on, plus my eyes don’t really work that well without my specs on and I wouldn’t be able to see as well in the pool, without them; then I know that I could get some special prescription goggles but they would probably cost a lot of money and wouldn’t get that much use out of most likely.

A third explanation could have been that Allergy likes swimming so maybe if I could swim I could inspire her to swim more often or at the very least I could get her to take me the something like five minute walk to get to the pool as some exercise is better than none, then again Tini has said that I could walk around to the pool on my own and the only reason that I’m not allowed in the gym on my own is some other reasons and Allergy now can’t swim; due to her hairdo which just seems to be an excuse which isn’t an excuse as I’m sure that she doesn’t have to have her hairdo in that certain way it’ll probably look the same (to me) if it wasn’t so long. Or another concept could be that I’m just wanting to show off this frankly glorious body... yeah I know it’s not that one, at least I don’t think that I have a glorious body.

Then again I know that I may not have thought that my appearance wasn’t anything special, or even half decent, but it may have been. In the past that is, as looking back on my past first off there was this girl that had come into our class as she was the niece of our form tutor and the boys in my form used to tease me about loving her, I never understood what they were going on about as I had only said hello to her on the first day that we met, then again I guess that my way of saying hello could have given off the wrong impression, as I am thinking that I was terrified as 1. a new addition to our form (for the next few days at least) 2. a girl, I wasn’t very confident around members of the same sex as me at the time so what do you expect was happening to me then with a member of the opposite sex? So anyway the other boys in my form got hold of that and then they started teasing me by saying that I was doing some questionable acts with her. And then it got worse as she said that she loved me, or words to that effect and then I’m thinking “that I know that your aunt likes me as I was a good student (I believed) but with you saying stuff like that you’re helping no one, as I know that I’m hideous” both her and her aunt (my form tutor) were Russian so that could be the reason for there taste issues.

After a couple of years of that happening a new girl came to our school and then there was another girl that thought that she was going to set us two up together, by saying that I loved her when in my mind I had no comprehension of what love was. After a year of this so now it’s year ten I had been on my fourth ski trip, one in year seven, second year eighth, third in year nine, then fourth year ten, I had got up to the part in the year that was work experience when it happened; nonetheless while I was crossing the road apparently I got whacked by a car which had me bounce from that car into another car, then after I got put into an induced coma and I didn’t wake up for a little bit. But then as the tale goes I woke up at some point and then I was transferred to a rehab unit which is where I can actually remember from. As I can only remember from a night before I was set out to go to my work experience placement up until a day that I found myself in an institution which I thought was jail as I was in a jail bed, at one point, not a bunk bed but a bed that I was locked inside.

It may have been for my safety but anyway there was three of us that I can remember that was there who were Jack, Jarred and I, soon enough Jack moved out, and on with his life and a girl called Hannah came to replace him but I cannot remember but I think that there might have been an overlap with both of them coming in. There was something wrong with Hannah thought she said that she loved me, I know that she was quite disturbed but even when another Jack turned up and this Jack was of a similar age of me, Jarred had left and Nathan had come around and then a Molly also came to stay. So in age order (from oldest to youngest) there was Hannah, Me, Jack 2, Nathan, Molly, Jarred and Jack 1. But then about me, Jack 2 and Hannah were all about the same age. When Hannah said that she loved me but then I was thinking why? All the time as I was not a looker and I couldn’t even speak, and I was just a big (well a little) nothing. When I got back to school so it was year eleven now and I was still going to rehab for some of the week but then I accepted a girls request to be my girlfriend so then I had a girlfriend, for a first time. I didn’t know what I was supposed to do with her, it was just as if I was a spare part for her just to invite her out to places and to get invited out to others just as friends. So anyway that never lasted and I was kicked to the curb soon enough I was perplexed what do I have to do, in a situation where you have a person that you love, or are supposed to? Just what is love?

All of that happened a long long time ago, I can still remember how... that music used to make me smile, and I knew if I had my chance, that I could make those people dance, and maybe they’d be happy for a while. I know it’s a bit of that American pie that I have been eating, I know that I should probably stop, I might get fat you know. But when have any of these Brit’s even cared about they’re own weights? It seems like it’s a race to see which can be the fattest country on the map, between Britain and USA? Again I have gone off on another tangent what I meant to type about was the fact that we had hydrotherapy back at rehab, and then they decided that they would teach me how to swim again, but I already knew how to swim so I pretended that I couldn’t swim. And I had myself a good time attempting to drown the teachers.... as if. But I would just muck about in the hydrotherapy pool. So that has got me up to about just about ten to twelve years previous to now, and this blog post has got slightly long now, hasn’t it. I should probably continue it on another day.

Day 2229

Day 2229;

Today I have got a BMI of 20.34, 14,550 steps and I have been up 10 flights of stairs. 

Breakfast: weetabix, apple, grapes, banana, orange and yogurt.
Lunch: scrambled eggs on bread and sponge cake.
Dinner: turkey, crochet potatoes, peas, carrots, sweetcorn and chocolate trifle.
Drinks: fruit juice, fruit squash and milky tea.

Since I have last typed on my blog I have been on a ski trip to Pila, Italy. Which was great I got a lot of footage from the GoPro’s. This year I think we did a little bit more of the skiing part, as opposed to the eating part. As it could have been described as an eating holiday with the occasional lapse into skiing, in previous years, as we’d get up then someone would say that we would be meeting at such and such cafe for like elevenses which by eleven o’clock we’d be no where near so we’d go to the nearest dinner on the mountain for elevenses and then they’d be talking on there phones about where to go for lunch which we’d either get there or not, but then nevertheless a similar thing would happen and they’d discuss where we should go for two o’clock then that would happen or not as the case may have been before we all got back to the hotel for four/five or somewhere in between, for dinner which started with an antipasto course which was followed by the pasta course which was followed by a main course (I enjoyed the rabbit for this course when it was an option; I believe it was on last Tuesday), I cannot wait until my niece/nephew arrives in about 4-5 more weeks I’ll probably be able to disgust them with my rabbit eating so fun, that was followed by a pudding course (cake, cheesecake, pastry). Before all that we had breakfast in the morning, which was cereal, croissant, fruit generally but then on occasion I would have some egg, yogurt and stuff with it.

But then again with Emu and the baby, soon enough, Saint given us, myself and Mich, a great idea of what to do about the baby if we want to continue skiing. It’s for us to book on the next ski week with DSUK wherever it is next year, then we could end up with getting two ski weeks as if Emu decides that she’s going to book us a place in France to go skiing from as well, and that way it’s not relying on Emu to book us on a ski trip so no matter if she doesn’t want to go on one. So no pressure on the new mother, which will be Emu.

Day 2228

Day 2228;

Now today has been another lazy day when the only activity that I have done was a short walk, as I got up properly early today as in something like half eleven last night to have myself get in a car to drive to an airport which was something like a two hour drive, to then get on a plane for an about one and a half hour flight to another place then to get into a coach for a two hour drive to get to the location of my holiday.

Dinner: anti pasty, gnocchi, sausage stuff and meringue in chocolate,
Drinks: fruit juice, water and iced tea.
Snacks:  cakes, jelly babies, chocolate fingers and biscuits.

So then today I haven’t exactly had anything like the usual meal content that I would usually eat, as I have been going on holiday today so that is going to mean that I am not going to be able to post my BMI for about a week or however long this holiday lasts, but on the other side I could probably be able to give you some information on the topic of how far I have skied in the days, and suchlike. If I get my watch onto the correct settings that’s.

And then if I actually have enough charge on it to last a day, which I have my doubts. Then after that I may even actually get some decent footage of skiing to put up on YouTube, but I know I can only wish that I manage to get that. Apparently Mart has been telling some of the people that are coming on this trip that I’m a bit of a speed freak, which is probably due to his retelling of the story of the day that I caught him last year on the Pila ski trip, can I please just reiterate that he wasn’t actually moving at too fast of a speed when I caught him, as I actually had quite a few seconds to discuss, in my head, how I was going to capture him. Which may have been as I had mucked up on the initial assault so he was holding himself back as normal to encourage me not to go a bit overboard in my future assaults.

So in other words I’ve been overhyped, especially since my 2 main objectives for this week are to get Mich skiing parallel and to get him down a black slope on two skis. Then I have an additional coin of goals for the week, which are to get myself down all of the black slopes and two to record, via GoPro down the black slopes.

Day 2227

Day 2227;

My BMI for today was 20.60, I have taken 11,213 steps, I have assented 15 flights of stairs and I have burned off 2089 kcal.

Breakfast: cereal.
Lunch: fish, carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, green beans, peas, potatoes and chocolate tart.
Dinner: omelette (cheese) and chocolate cake.
Drinks: fruit juice, fruit squash and milk.
Snacks: banana,orange and apple.

Today I have been to Boccia in the morning, then I have been walking up some stairs, just to fit in my ten for today. Next up I managed to put my bit of fitness in my day, as I gave myself a little row on my machine for rowing. Then I have had my lunch, which was very nice. Before I watched more of the six nations (Rugby) Ireland beat the Welsh. Before the English beat the Scottish. Which was the last thing I did today before going to have a shower, then getting myself ready for the plane that I am going on in the early hours of tomorrow, in order to get to Italy for some more skiing.

Now I should start to flesh out what I did today a bit more, I think. Today started off by having Boccia and in it I had a thought which was is obesity a disability? As I think that if it was then we could get the coach to play for our team and his daughter, but then today we had a game, boys vs girls. The boys won, 11-3, but then they had Mr Coach’s daughter playing for them. On our team we had J who is a little guy in a wheelchair that plays using a ramp, Mr Coach’s son (who has got some mental issue as well as obesity) and me (a man with full body dystonia, but I don’t get why it’s called that as I can still function normally for the most part). We were against a woman in a wheelchair, a little girl with mental issues and the Coach’s daughter (who’s age wise  younger than her brother but more with it mentally).

So then I returned home and I was wondering what I should do so I started pacing around up and down the stairs trying to reach 10 flights of stairs for the day, I had just got to 9 when Tini got irritated by me and she instructed me to “go do some exercise” so I finished off my 10 flights of stair by climbing one more set before I went down onto my rowing machine and I gave myself a nice little 2500m row, before lunch.

First up in sport today it was Ireland vs Wales and the Irish smashed the Welsh, 24-14, which was a good game. Then England vs Scotland (the Calcutta cup) which wasn’t as good of a game with England only leading by 3 points at the break, then in the second half the Scots managed to get the score line back to 3-3, then the English managed to get a nice 7 point score, a try and the additional points, then they managed to get another 3 point penalty score, to give them a 10 point lead. Then in the final portion of the game the Scottish managed to get another score, 3 point score. Before the clock turned red and English kicked the ball out of play, to end the game, 6-13.

Day 2226

Day 2226;

My BMI was 20.84, or something like that, but my steps were 17,403 and I climbed 77 flights of stairs, all in all I managed to burn 2,877 kcal off.

Breakfast: cereal, banana, orange and apple.
Lunch: seafood pasta and chocolate cake.
Dinner: scampi, chips, peas and chocolate tart
Drinks: milk, fruit squash, fruit juice and milky tea.
Snack: Jaffa cakes.

Today I have decided to give this blog another shot as I have been being lazy for the past however long, by being lazy I’m only referring to this blog, as I have actually been up to some pretty energetic stuff since I last corresponded with you.

Ok, now are you going to go on about the Hadrian’s Cycle way, the 1000 mph, all of the little cycles that you have been on over the weeks?

Well yes I was, but now I don’t have to, thank you, then again I could just add that I have been skiing at the snow centre a couple of times then I wouldn’t be surprised if I had managed to get around to snowboarding also since I have been off line so long. But then I am planning on going off to Italy again in a couple of days, for a little ski trip so that is going to be fun. Just before I go I have gone to see the crazy Italian Doctor and she thinks that I should be in the Paralympics, which was just as she was telling us a story about how she had met with Chris Robshaw as he had something to do with her job being a doctor and he must have been her patient for something and she just didn’t know who he was. So when she’d just been telling him that he shouldn’t play rugby instead he should be some footballer, then she went out into the office afterwards and they all told her who it was so apparently she was shocked.

But anyway as I was typing my Italian doctor thinks that I should be in the winter Paralympics  as a skier, just as I showed her a little video which is on YouTube, this video, which I had just cobbled together using footage of me skiing in Pila, Italy, something like 4 day’s back which I had done as I had got the footage from a video that Mich had made some time last year and it was as I wanted to see if I can make another one this year but this time using GoPro footage. So the one from 2020 should be up soon as I will have actually been, this year and it should be better than it was last year as there shouldn’t be me on it, obviously, and there probably should be more.

Now I want to see if I could make it onto the Team GB para-ski team for 2022, in Beijing. Which we aren’t even sure of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games are going ahead at the moment as it is in the vicinity of China and this Corona virus thing. So it’s bad news for any of the athletes that are going to be competing in the summer Olympics (and Paralympics).

Then again I am just not good enough to skiing to get myself to the next winter Paralympics, if it will be in Beijing or not. So then now for the next holiday I have myself a challenge, it’s to get Mich skiing properly (parallel) and to get him down a black run without stacking it. Which is simple enough. I only wish he had never learned how to snow plough first, as it is makes it more difficult to learn how to ski parallel if you are kicking your heels out on every turn.

Day 2225

Day 2225;

My BMI today was 18.85, I had taken 18,862 steps (or 12.21km) and I have burned 1071kcal.

Breakfast: cereal, banana, orange, apple, peach and grapes.

Lunch: sandwich (cheese in brown bread) and chocolate cake.

Dinner: fish, broccoli, peas, carrots, cauliflower, crochet potatoes and tiramisu.

Drinks: milk and fruit squash.

Snack: rice cake coated in chocolate.

I have got the house to myself again tomorrow so that should mean an actual two hour or thirty mile, whichever is longer cycle round New York. Now that  should take me about up until lunchtime then I’ll eat my lunch which will probably be similar to my lunch from today (that being a sandwich and cake left in a couple of boxes with a few drinks left beside. Then in the afternoon I will probably be having another little jog on the spot/inside jog.

Now today I have disappointed myself on the bike ride as I only got in just over one hour, it was around New York but it was a slow ride. So slow in fact I believe that we, Mich and I, could most probably do better on a tandem, probably on our new tandem which we are supposed to be collecting Friday. When we are traveling up north to the wall of old Hadrian for a group tandem ride raising money for charity, Retina UK, which we are going to get to meet an actual Paralympic champion, Steven Bate, and we can ask him questions; well not me obviously as I cannot talk but I have lined Mich up with the questions that I’d like to ask him mainly how am I supposed to get a foothold in competing against other cripples and even then how am I supposed to find someone to compete with, as a pilot?

Day 2224

Day 2224;

My BMI is 18.55 for today, as I had only only managed 13,683 which was 8.86km and I had burned 1094kcal.

Breakfast: cereal, banana, orange, apple, peach and grapes.

Lunch: sandwich (cheese in brown bread) and cake.

Dinner: spaghetti Bolognese (tomato, mushroom and cheese) and tiramisu.

Drinks: milk, fruit squash and water.

Snacks: rice cake and porkpie.

So tomorrow is yet another day like today which I am going to have the morning to myself, then after that morning I should be having the afternoon to myself as I don’t think that I have anyone for company. Or at least shouldn’t so I should be able to fit in a decent two hour cycle around New York, well by decent I mean a better cycle than my one about Innsbruck today, which I think I managed to get about ten miles in one hour,  which Mich says is good, as Innsbruck is in Austria and apparently Austria is a bit steep, as I know from going skiing over there (many many years ago), but that’s what happened today. I should really get onto something that’s still to come. Probably like my two hour cycle ride in New York, as I have planned, then I will probably have myself a jog on the treadmill in the afternoon, before I give myself a row and a bounce, which should probably be enough exercise for tomorrow.

Today I have had an hour on the Zwift bike (Innsbruck) which was followed by a little jog inside, when the window cleaners showed up I know I should have told Mich that they came by to clean the windows, not the PC’s the glass things that we look through. Then I forgot about the window cleaners. Which was good that they put a note through the door, then there was another little activity that I did in the afternoon, which I have forgotten about. I have been thinking that I could have done a tiny bounce, but then again no it’d probably have been some exercises.

Day 2223

Day 2223;

My BMI was at 18.68, my steps were at 11,254 (which gave me a little distance of 7.29km) and today I have managed to burn 1015kcal.

Breakfast: cereal, banana, orange, apple, peach and grapes.

Lunch: fish en crute, peas, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, runner beans, potatoes and cream cakes.

Dinner: omelette (cheese) and a pastry (strawberry and raspberry).

Drinks: milk, fruit squash, water and fruit tea.

Snacks: apple cake, pink wafer and Tunocks wafer.

Tomorrow will probably begin with a little cycle, around the place which is on Zwift tomorrow, which could be London, NYC, Richmond, Innsbruck or Yorkshire, I do believe. Now I’m relatively confident that it won’t be Yorkshire, as I thought that it was on someday like Wednesday or Thursday, but then it was NYC today, as it was three days ago,  before that it was London, wasn’t it? No it was Richmond? So then at a guess it will probably be Innsbruck (or either London or Richmond whichever I didn’t have before I did NYC) then I’ve got that to look forward to tomorrow. After that I should be going to the gym later on in the day, whenever Tini gets back from work. Then nothing planned.

I totally mucked up my day. With only watching Mich have an excellent little ride on the Zwift bike and then in the afternoon I managed to get a little jog. So that was my day little lazy if I was one to critique. I should have got in a bit on either of the bikes.

Day 2222

Day 2222;

My BMI was 18.71, and I had only made 4941 steps (which was 3.13km) and I had burned
702kcal

Breakfast: cereal.
Lunch: pasta bolognaise, cheese and cream cakes.
Dinner: fish en crute, runner beans, peas, broccoli, carrots and something.
Drinks: milk, fruit tea and water.
Snacks: strawberries, banana, orange, apple and peach.

Tomorrow I have got nothing planned for the day, so far that I believe that I could get in a cycle on Zwift, I may get in some time on the rowing machine, treadmill and another bounce on a trampoline. I should be able to get fitter tomorrow.

I have had a boring little Boccia practice for the day first, then I went to watch a football match in the afternoon. The football match was a very good game today even though the opposition team scored first and they left the pitch for half time leading. So the game was a very good game, as I have typed earlier on, because it was some very good play from the team that I support but then they (the opposition) had an excellent little break in play and they managed to score from it, then the team that I support were just banging on the door to no avail, and that’s how the half ended, so I was excited about the prospects of the team that I support when going back on to the pitch after half time. They came back out after half time, and they continued to press on the opposition, which actually led to a goal, which amazed me then it was a second goal scored by the team that I support, and their was a third to make it a three goals to one victory by the team that we were there to support.

Day 2221

Day 2221;

My BMI was 18.58 today, when I had done 13,856 steps which was 8.97km and today I had burned 987kcal.

Breakfast: cereal, strawberries, banana, orange, apple and peach.
Lunch: vegan pasty (runner beans, peas, carrots and others), spaghetti with mini sausages and Banbury cake.
Dinner: omelette (mushrooms and cheese, chocolate cheesecake and strawberries.
Drinks: milk, fruit squash and fruit tea.
Snacks: biscuits.

What I have got planned for tomorrow morning is for me to go to boccia practice in the morning then in the afternoon I believe that I’m going a football match of the football team that I support. I don’t know how they are going to get on in the match, but I hope that they win the match.

Today I had walked into town to get Mich and my lunch, then when we’d gotten back to home I don’t really know what we did apart from eat our lunches. But then in the afternoon I went on the Zwift bike for a small ride around New York City, Central Park, I really disappointed myself on Zwift today as I only managed to get myself up to a speed of fourteen miles per hour. When we should be able to get to average speeds of higher than that on the tandem.

Day 2220

Day 2220;

A BMI of today was 18.51, my total number of steps were 13,006 (which was 8.42km) and I had burned 1045kcal.

Breakfast: cereal, banana, orange, apple and peach.
Lunch: pasta bolognaise (tomato, mushrooms and onion), cheese and something.
Dinner: fish, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, runner beans, peas and chocolate cheesecake.
Drinks: milk and fruit squash.

Tomorrow I have got another little walk, to town, to purchase some stuff for lunch. Then I am unsure about whether we are going to have a go on the Zwift tandem tomorrow, or whether I should probably still have to go again solo for another Zwift ride.

Well today was a lazy day, I had a dentist appointment today. But I got in a tandem ride also, but we couldn’t manage to reach up to speeds of plus seventeen miles per hour, as we should be, there about as individually Mich has got an average speed of 18.7mph and my was only 16.6mph which when you split the difference the speed is 17.65mph. But then we only managed to get an average speed of 16.2mph which was a bit of a disappointment but then again we hadn’t managed to get up to a speed of anything like that on our own before apparently. But then again I had been thinking that we had done a sixteen point eight miles per hour on a return trip when we were on the tandem the other week.

The dentist appointment today was apparently a bad one for me, as I’m thinking that I have been drinking too much hot Ribena in the past. Then after today I hadn’t had another hot Ribena as the hygienist had told me that I shouldn’t be having as much high sugar squash, which I think is Ribena.

Day 2219

Day 2219;

BMI was 18,.02, steps I have taken were 26,648 which gave me a distance of 17.25km and I burned off 1674kcal.

Breakfast: cereal, banana, orange, apple, nectarine and peach.
Lunch: sandwich (cheese in brown bread) and something.
Dinner: pasta bolognaise (tomato, mushrooms and onion), cheese , tomato bread and chocolate trifle.
Drinks: milk, fruit squash and hot Ribena.
Snack: chocolate coated rice cake.

What is happening tomorrow, to me. As I know that Katherine Johnson Thomson will be going for gold in the heptathlon tomorrow as it’s the final three events of the heptathlon tomorrow and KJT is already in first place after four events  which was thanks to her speedy little dash over the two hundred meters, but anyway it was the first British success over two hundred meters of the day as there was another one also today, it was Asher-Smith that did it for GB’s first gold of these Athletics World Championships.

Then again that’s what has happened today and a bit about what can happen tomorrow what else is happening tomorrow will be myself going to the dentist in the morning, which should be a lazy morning, just as well that I had made my a thousand minutes of intensity for this week just after lunch today. But then again as I’m attempting to get myself ready for competing at the Paralympics next year, I have a long way to go. I still ain’t even found a discipline let alone a method of being spotted by the scouts, is that how you are supposed to compete? But I’m guessing that I’ll have to ask Steve Bate, in the Q and A one of the Saturdays coming.

Day 2218

Day 2218;

Now today my BMI was 18.09, I have made 23,495 steps, which was 15.21km and within doing the number of steps I had burned 1808kcal off.

Breakfast: cereal, banana, orange, apple, nectarine and peach.
Lunch: sandwich (cheese and pickle in brown bread) and
Dinner: fish en croute, cauliflower,runner beans, carrots, broccoli, potatoes and chocolate trifle.
Drinks: milk, fruit squash and hot Ribena.
Snacks: chocolate coated rice cake and something.

Now tomorrow I have the house to myself again, at least for a most part of the day light hours. So I’m going to have another attempt at another two hour cycle in the morning, before in the afternoon I will get myself on another hour long treadmill jog before I finish off with another row. But then again I don’t really

Today I have had the house to myself so I have first gone for a cycle ride it was a nice two hour long ride around Richmond, but it was a bit of a disappointment as I had managed to get to sixteen point eight miles in the first hour but then I only managed to get thirteen point four miles in the second hour, which is a discrepancy of four point four miles of which I should probably have to get quicker in order to negate. But then anyway Mich took his turn on the Zwift bike yesterday around Richmond, he got eighteen miles in one hour which was almost two miles per hour quicker than I, so I think that he needs a new stoker which could get him up to eighteen miles per hour on the tandem that we have already got. Then he is always saying that the reason that he likes the tandem is the fact that he doesn’t have to try, the peddles just go around by themselves, he keeps bringing up box hill, leith hill and the third one which is just after them on ride London saying that he was just about to give up and walk up the hills when I just kept on peddling and we were up them soon enough, me, myself and I cannot really remember anything about the ride London only that it was a nice little ride around London, well you could say that it wasn’t a little ride, it was a hundred miles in one day, which I am going up north again sometime next Friday which is one to collect our new tandem and two to go up to Hadrian’s Wall for another one hundred miles cycle, but this time it will be over the course of two days.

Day 2217

Day 2217;

So on this day I have had a BMI of 18.42, my steps were 19,048, which gave me a distance walked of 12.33km and I had burned 1172kcal.

Breakfast: cereal, banana, orange, apple and peach.
Lunch: rice cakes, spaghetti in tomato sauce with mini sausages and cream cakes.
Dinner: meat pie, peas and lemon meringue pie.
Drinks: milk, fruit squash and hot Ribena.
Snack: egg custard.

Now tomorrow I’m going to have a cycle in the morning then in the afternoon I will probably burn off some more tread on the treadmill, before I row for a few, a few what I don’t know; but it’ll probably be minutes. Anyway I have got to get myself on the Zwift bike and I’ve got to ride another 45.8km, or just over twenty eight miles which I could probably get done in slightly longer than two and something hours, as I did an hourlong ride today which was sixteen miles, so that doubled gets me to thirty two but then I have got to decrease my time as when I’m traveling I’ll get slower as I am human unfortunately and then I’ll also be getting weaker throughout. Which is probably why I cycle around on the back of a tandem of someone who is more able than I, so much so he managed to get the Zwift ride that he did today up to eighteen mph while mine was only down at sixteen mph but he had it going at nineteen point four mph for the first half hour of the ride, before he started flagging, which saw him post the quickest lap and the slowest lap, in the same ride. Which led onto him stating that I’m pretty consistent with my lap times, I don’t really see that though, quite literally usually. And I would just like to see if he could control the gears how much of a difference that would be, the other point of interest is him getting his tandem up and running on the Zwift.

Before all of that apart from the parts that have already happened, meaning Mich and my Zwift rides. I think that one of main differences between the two of us when we’re cycling around on Zwift is our intelligence, Mich is much more cycle intelligent than I, as in I get the parts that have it as you’ve got to change the gear lower when your on a climb and then up again if you’re wanting more speed on the downhill/flats. But I already know how to make a bike move quicker, it’s called spinning the peddles I know it’s not as efficient as it gets you out of breath before too long but it works, I know as many many years ago before I got myself hit by the automobile or two I was riding the red little bicycle (the one with no gears and the one that was for children to cycle), and Emu who is that bit older than I had her new bike with gears and we were racing around the block of houses which is outside our home and I had the beating of her when we were going up to the highest part of the course, just as I could get my legs spinning around quicker than her, then on the downhill I suffered as an was just spinning my legs which is just makes you feel tired meanwhile Emu could just switch to high gear and then go down the block at speeds of quicker than my own using less than half of the energy that I used. I am still that chap but I’m also not as I get the functions of gears, but it’s like the gears don’t get me.

Day 2215

Day 2215;

18.58 was my BMI for today, I had walked 12,256 steps which was apparently 7.93km in distance walked and I had burned off 1134kcal.

Breakfast: cereal, strawberries, banana, orange and apple.
Lunch: sandwich (cheese in brown bread), kit kat and tunocks wafer.
Dinner: fish, broccoli, runner beans, carrots, potatoes and lemon meringue pie.
Drinks: coffee flavoured milk, fruit squash and hot Ribena.
Snacks: kit kat and sausage roll.

Tomorrow I haven’t got a clue what is planned, but I will get a go on the Zwift bike hopefully they are running Zwift Academy Workout #5 as it was Zwift Academy Workout #4 today, but it is now only Zwift Academy Workout #5 that I have left to get done to have completed Zwift Academy, 92% complete.

Now today I have traveled back home from Yorkshire, I do like Yorkshire it’s great, the weather is just top notch as a local told us if you don’t like the weather one minute just give it ten minutes and it’ll probably have changed and as a general rule that seems to be the case, Zwift Academy 92% complete two days to complete the one activity that I still have to do, today on Zwift I got myself a nice little (half an hour) ride around Yorkshire I didn’t do enough to make it around the UCI course even once, so I’d be hopeless in the actual UCI World Championship, which was in Yorkshire this year.

Then also today I have had to go outside to aid Mich in doing something, which was the reason for me only going on the Zwift bike for half an hour, but what was it for? I cannot remember. Ah that was it, wasn’t it? Was it to help Mich take the new Guinea pig hutch down to the location that it’s to be stored in from now on. We haven’t got the Guinea pigs anymore but we’ve got a hutch for them to live in when school gets too much for them, just as it had done for them the other week, or six.

Day 2214

Day 2214;

Not until tomorrow am I going to get back to my Wii Fit stuff, then today I have done 10,118 steps (which was apparently 28.0km which may have been as I got in a nice little tandem ride) and I had burned off 2589kcal.

Breakfast: cereal, raspberries, banana, orange and apple.
Lunch: sandwich (cheese and ham) and slices (bakewell and fruitcake).
Dinner: cottage pie, broccoli, cauliflower and lemon meringue pie.
Drinks: coffee flavoured milk, fruit juice, fruit squash and hot Ribena.
Snacks: tunocks wafer and kit kat.

So what is up for tomorrow? I don’t think that I have got much up for tomorrow, minus traveling back down south for home.

But then today I have gone to the tandem shop, which is the only tandem shop in this here land, I do believe, J.D. Tandems. We had a nice little conversation with Jason (at least I think that is what his name tag said) who insisted that we left our tandem with them while we went back to the cottage to get changed into our cycling gear for us to come back in order for us to spend a day on one of their tandems, so that we would hopefully purchase a tandem from them, even though it wasn’t said exactly that way, it was said in more of a way for us to get back to them at the end of the day with feedback. But by the end of the day we had rode the tandem to the stop which Jason Suggested while we were there we met a couple of people that we knew from three years back, it was the Prudential Ride London, but they were quite a lot better than us on a tandem back then, they probably still are by that I’m meaning they’re still younger than Mich, I know that I’m the youngest there anyway I’m a cripple and we had 7:43 as our time and they had 7:23, twenty minutes in it I know it’s not much if you don’t think about all the things that you could do in twenty minutes. But then if you consider how long they stopped (were stationary) it really drags home just how slow we were, we were slow first five estimated miles we managed to keep up above twenty km/h then we dropped under twenty for three estimated time checks, before one above and then our quickest (thirty km/h), before our final two time checks which were over twenty km/h, just.

Day 2213

Day 2213;

Again I’m in Yorkshire but according to my watch I had only managed 5043 steps I must really tomorrow, but then my distance that I have covered was 61.7km and my calories burned were 3013kcal.

Breakfast: cereal, strawberries, banana, orange, apple and raspberries.

Lunch: sandwich (cheese and ham), fruit cake and bakewell slices.

Dinner: macaroni cheese, lettuce, broccoli and lemon meringue pie.

Drinks: milk, fruit squash. hot Ribena and coffee flavoured milk.

On the morrow I shall be visiting the tandem shop, I don’t think that it’s to purchase another tandem, it will be just to have a look around it. Just to give us some ideas of some things to talk to our local bike  mechanic about, you know the one that was wanting to make a titanium tandem for us. Then that’s for tomorrow but then I am unsure about what else we are going to do tomorrow, as that should probably take us about the morning before we have nothing else planned, but then Mich has probably got a train ride he wants to go on, or we could just go to the bike races whenever it’s on?

Then today we went out on the tandem to watch the UCI Junior Men’s Time Trial, which was half decent when we were standing around for ages, shivering, waiting for the bicycle race to come by, well if you’ve been watching the coverage on the television and you saw a tandem lying beside the course it was probably some time about one hour fifteen through the broadcast that is Mich’s tandem as Mich was looking watching the tv coverage, on iPlayer, and he got a bit irritated as the camera came up to the people that were stood a little way away from us before it jumped to his tandem or something like that.

Day 2212

Day 2212;

I forgot my Wii so I couldn’t get my BMI today but then again today I have managed to get 13,996 steps on my watch, which has been apparently 11.4km and I have only burned 2139 kcal, according to my watch.

Breakfast: cereal, banana, orange, apple, peach and nectarine.
Lunch: sandwich (cheese and ham) and cake.
Dinner: cottage pie, broccoli, peas, carrots, runner beans, potato and chocolate cheesecake.
Drinks: milk, fruit squash, Lucozade sport (raspberry) and hot Ribena.

So tomorrow I won’t be getting my BMI, and what is planned for the day is for us to go along the route of one of the UCI World Championships races, in Yorkshire to view some of the racing in persons. As it is one of the reasons that we actually came here, another was as we were going to visit the tandem shop, JD Tandem, at some interval. Also during this holiday I endeavour to think up some questions for the Paralympic Champion Stephen Bate, as I do believe that we have a future engagement with him in a Q and A session, if I’m not mistaken.

Then today I have managed to get myself up to the steps necessary as I have been for a couple of walks, around Yorkshire, mainly about the fan park, I have also been on a Tacx trainer today for a minute and I have powered a little electric car around a little circuit, using peddle power, so both of those two instances won’t help me get my steps up for the day by my watch, so I walked around a bit with Mich. Also today I have had a walk about the course and watch some of the racing which was ending up at the fan park, Harrogate I believe, so we had some fun watching the local racer knock another local racer off of top spot for the podium before literally seconds later than he had arrived at the finish he was himself dethroned by the next man which crossed the line, so we don’t think that he even had a chance to sit on the throne. 

Day 2211

Day 2211;

Now today I have got a BMI of 18.61, but I have only made 11,486 steps which means that I have only walked 7.44km so how I have managed to burn off 1139kcal?

Breakfast: cereal, banana, orange, apple, plum and peach.
Lunch: sandwich (cheese in white bread), rice cakes (yogurt coated) and some Swiss roll (sponge and chocolate).
Dinner: meat pie, carrots, peas, broccoli, cauliflower, potatoes, tiramisu and chocolate cheesecake.
Drinks: milk, fruit squash, Lucozade sport (orange) and hot Ribena.

For tomorrow I will be going off to Yorkshire with Mich to see the bicycle racing which is going on around there at the moment, which we started watching I think it was today on the box, or it could have been yesterday that we started to watch it but then again it may have been the disabled cycling that we were watching yesterday. Then today I thought it was the turn of the elite women cycling.

Ok so I have gone into a bit of what I have done today, already, and it was that I watched some of the UCI women’s time trial on the television. Which I should be going up-to Yorkshire tomorrow to see the men doing the same, but you already knew that as you can read. Now today I have been off skiing in a snow zone which is in England, as the indoors snow zones throughout England are probably the only places that you’re guaranteed to be able to have enough snow the whole year around to go skiing. My GoPro footage managed to capture some good stuff today, for that I’m pleased.

Then later on today I have also been on the Zwift Bike, which was an decent enough little ride as I had managed to get my average speed up to just over eighteen miles per hour, which has left me with one more activity to do on the Zwift program until I will have my Zwift Academy cycling badge thing. Then after all if I continue on doing this stuff on Zwift I may actually get somewhere with my cycling, I know that I’m half the speed of the pro riders at doing the Yorkshire course, as they were doing the same course as myself and I think that I had it done in about double the length of time necessary for the pro’s to do it, so that was disappointing. I must get it done quicker.

Day 2210

Day 2210;

So for the day I got a BMI to 18.94, my steps were 15,687 which was 10.29km and I had burned 1023kcal.

Breakfast: cereal, banana, orange, apple, peach, plum and nectarine.
Lunch: pasta bolognaise, mushrooms, cheese, Swiss roll and chocolate Swiss roll.
Dinner: fish, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, runner beans, potatoes and chocolate cheesecake.
Drinks: milk, fruit squash and hot Ribena.
Snacks: rice cakes.

Then tomorrow I’m going skiing with Mich, by the time that that’s done I’m thinking that I could get another little ride on the Zwift bike. So that’s what I have planned for tomorrow then I wonder what else I can be getting done tomorrow as it should be my final day at home of the week as I’m traveling off the Yorkshire for the second half, well pretty much, of this week.

So what does the Labour Party want to do to itself, does it really want to stand a chance to get back into power, at least within the current political climate (meaning Brexit)? As the plebs at the BBC were getting all excited about the opportunity that the Labour Party were going to vote on the subject of the Labour Parties stance on Brexit as they were hoping that the Labour Party were going all in on the subject of the EU, which made sense considering the BBC’s desires to stay part of the EU, and the rest of the London elite then I was wondering how could they expect to even win a majority in England if they were to adopt a policy like that, as the north of England which have traditionally voted Labour would desert the Labour Party just as they did when David Cameron said that they’d hold a referendum on the nations membership of the EU if he got elected without it being a hung parliament and now then it’s done they’ve gone back to they’re normal voting, and then we’ve got another hung parliament, as the Labour Party said that they’d enact the result of the referendum so that was the North back on side for Labour Party and now the Labour Party wants to disenfranchise the northern voters, as they want to be a full on remain party, apparently.