Day 2237

Day 2237;

Today my BMI was 20.08, my steps were 11,680, distance was 7.56,  and I have burned off 1,339kcal.

Breakfast: weetabix, orange, banana and apple.

Lunch: toastie (cheese) and chocolate cake.

Dinner: seafood pasta Viennetta and chocolate trifle.

Drinks: fruit juice, fruit squash and 

Snacks: rice cake (chocolate), tunocks wafer 

So today I have had a special day apparently, but a good day I have had as I have done my mornings fifteen minute row with a twenty minute little treadmill jog, and then I have also done some P.E. with Joe, in the morning before I opened my presents. Why am I getting any presents today I don’t know but something happened a long long time ago on this day, I cannot remember the day but I really should be able to remember it you’d have thought. Then again I think no one can actually remember their own. So why do people celebrate it so? Tini and Mich can remember the day that I am referring to so I’m guessing that I’ll have to humour them two.

But then today I have received some quite good things, like a Tyrolean hat, which is amazing; not for any particular reason it is just my personal opinion on the hat. As I saw one whilst I was on my ski trip and I just couldn’t help myself but stare at it. So Mich decided that it would do as a gift for me for this day. Another gift that I received today was some dumbbells, which have taken pride of place in my little gym, and I got a fitness cube thingamajig which I have used as a stepper, when I had put my Tyrolean hat on so Tini could film me to send to Emu as it was Emu (and C) that got me the fitness cube. 

I also have got a Zwift device for some running so I’ll be able to run up and down Watopia on the treadmill now as well as going for rides around Watopia, plus I’ll be able to get my heart rate measured at the same time thanks to a new device that I asked for with it, which should apparently work with the cycling on Zwift as well, so that’s a bonus.

Then after all that I had been on a tandem ride with Mich which was excellent as we had managed to get thirty miles done in under two hours, Allergy said was it windy, I signified yes it was windy, then Allergy basically said that the wind must have helped us, then I corrected her the wind was in our faces for the majority of the ride. But the ride was great and it’s added onto my total of my minutes of intensity that I have done for this week so far.

Day 2236

Day 2236;pk

20.50

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

Lunch:  chicken, broccoli, peas, carrots, green beans, stuffing, roasted potatoes, apple pie and ice-cream. 

Dinner: cheese omelette and cake.

Drinks: fruit juice, fruit squash and milky tea.

Snacks: biscuits, brownie bites and millionaires bites.

Now today has marked the end of the first week on lockdown, and it has gone by pretty well (I think), with us in the UK having less deaths than yesterday (of people with the virus) for a first time since the outbreak started, so we could say that’s one win for the UK such a shame that the new anomaly won’t be the new norm for us, however if it did then I think that we could have a little celebration on our hands. It may be enough for us to stop using that Chinese company in the construction of our 5G network. Anyway who needs a 5G network... anyone?

Today has also been a second lazy day, as I have spent the morning playing on the Switch, some switch fit game. Then in the afternoon I have had myself a row on the machine, which was fun. I only managed to get myself to 5080m today in half an hour, which was really disappointing especially because Mich got 5336m on his early today attempt. But I know s reason as to why he’s better than me at it. It was as he was saying during my row it was because I wasn’t extending my arms, well at least not for the first twenty minutes then after Mich informed me of what I was doing wrong and I attempted to rectify it which caused me more problems than it solved.

Day 2235

Day 2235;

My BMI was 19.89, steps I had taken 11,632 steps, which was only 7.53km and I had burned off 1412kcal.

Breakfast: weetabix (chocolate), banana, orange, raspberries, apple and yogurt.
Lunch: omelette (cheese) and lemon cake.
Dinner: chicken, carrots, peas, broccoli, green beans, potatoes, profiteroles and chocolate cheesecake.
Drinks: fruit juice, fruit squash, cordial and fruit tea.
Snacks: chocolate brownie bites, millionaire shortbread bites and some chocolate coins.

Now today I have had a brain wave of how I can live my life, for the foreseeable future at least. It is as I have got twenty four hours to use, so if I designate certain things to happen at certain times then I can get myself more fit. As in during the week (Monday - Friday) there’s this funny dude that goes on YouTube doing P.E., I think he’s called Joe Wicks, so I have decided to join him in doing some of the exercises in the morning but after I have had a Row on my rowing machine and a jog on the treadmill (which was a walk this morning) so then it’s a kind of cool down for me. Then I spent the rest of the morning on the Switch playing more Links Awakening, and that’s was my morning.

Now then that I did, this morning I had myself running a bit out of time  because I was wasting time which is why I have decided that I shan’t do a fifteen minute row followed by a half hour walk on the treadmill. Fifteen minute row should still be do able but the half hour no... let’s just give me a twenty minute jog on the treadmill. Then I should have enough time to get myself washed and sorted before the YouTube fitness dude comes to life. 

Day 2234

Day 2234:

My BMI of today was 19.95, I had done 10,220 steps, which was only 6.62km and I have burned off 1171kcal.

Breakfast: weetabix (chocolate), raspberries, banana, orange, blueberries, apple and yogurt.
Lunch: pie, carrots, peas, cauliflower, green beans, potatoes and something.
Dinner: chicken, carrots, noodles and something.
Drinks: fruit juice, fruit squash and milky tea.
Snack: Tunocks wafer.

So it is going to be like this then is it? At least until we have beaten this new virus, the Chung Flu. And when it’s all over in a hundred years or so long time (it was one hundred and two years since the last, the Spanish Flu) so long enough for it to be forgotten about.

But then yesterday I had a BMI of 20.15, my steps were 15,489, which was apparently 10.03km and I had burned off 1395kcal. Which was according to Wii Fit but then yesterday I was going to get another one of these blogposts up which was put a stop to by my eating of my dinner (which was pie, carrots, peas, cauliflower and green beans) basically my lunch for today. As I had another one of my phlegm episodes which Mich has taken me to the hospital for before now such a waste, but no longer I’m thinking it is viable for me to be taken to the hospital when I have another one of those phlegm episodes, at least not until this pandemic is dealt with. Which is good I think.

Then again today I have also walked up eleven floors, according to my watch. My watch also tells me that I have done 20,610 steps and my intensity minutes for this week currently stand at 595, of which I’m thinking that I did 345 minutes today so that means that it was 250 minutes yesterday. Just as we go into lockdown as a nation so the Labour Party has been saying that we haven’t gone quick enough into it? But then again wasn't it the Labour mayor of London that was saying that there’s no risk of catching the Chung Flu on a tube train (or any of London’s public transport for the matter) on a day that was something like three weeks ago. Then again today it has been reported that he has made a U-turn on that opinion.

Now I’m not sure what I’m really getting at in that tirade it’s just an observation. Like the one that I made about the Coronavirus being a better force of change in our travels across the world than Greta, who did the “How dare you” speech and frowned along with a lot of virtue signalling. Which struck up the conversation but then it did nothing more. 

Day 2233

Day 2233;

Now today I had a BMI of 20.24, I have taken 11,687 steps, which was apparently 7.57km and I have burned off 1203kcal.

Breakfast: weetabix (chocolate), strawberries, banana, orange, apple, grapes and yogurt.

Lunch: macaroni cheese (with bacon), coffee cake and chocolate rice cake.

Dinner: noodles (prawns, carrots and green beans), tiramisu and cheesecake.

Drinks: fruit juice, fruit squash, fruit cordial and 

Snacks: rice cake (chocolate).

Two days ago I had been on the Zwift bike and I went been on the tandem. But then before all before that I had myself a little jog on the treadmill. The ride on the Zwift bike was another one of the tour of Watopia rides but today it was the hilly course which took me a long time to do, but I had enough charge on the iPad to get the course completed which was an issue I had with it last year, but then I thought that it wasn’t until later on in the year.

Then yesterday I had been out to the local shops for reasons of “panic” buying apparently. Which is where Mich purchases twice the number of tins of beans than is necessary. Then again I noticed that this Coronavirus thingamajig has done wonders for the local industry, by that I mean the town centres which were dying in the run up to the pandemic, such a shame that it’ll never last. Also yesterday I did a little race on Zwift, it was in the Tour of Watopia stage 3. So I’ve still got two more stages to complete  I also did a little row and jog, but then again I only managed to fit in little amounts of both of the activities.

Now today I have been having a lazy morning, but I have actually put my wrist weights on for my having lazy morning. I had my breakfast and I put them on after I had my breakfast before I was set to play a bit on my Switch, as it was only on some of Link’s Awakening I don’t think that I have exercised myself enough especially as my step count for the morning was just above two hundred, before I decided to get serious and I decided to walk up the stairs a few times (my watch tells me that I had walked up fourteen flights of stairs before lunch, which was an increase of fourteen than when I had checked just after playing Link’s Awakening). I have had my lunch then I have gone for an indoor walk on the treadmill before taking the weights off (as they had got pretty sodden), so I decided to take them upstairs to the airing cupboard before I next had a ride on the Zwift bike. The ride was around NYC’s Central Park I do believe.

Day 2232

Day 2232;

Today my BMI was 20.24, I took 11,299 steps, which was apparently 7.32km and I had burned off 1212kcal.

Breakfast: weetabix (chocolate), strawberries, banana, orange and apple.
Lunch: egg, baked beans, rice cakes and something.
Dinner: stew (chicken, tomato, carrots, peas), crochet potatoes and something.
Drinks: fruit juice, fruit squash and hot chocolate.
Snacks: something and some of those chocolate coated wafers.

Today I have been on a short walk into town and I have been on another shorter walk on the treadmill. I have also been on my rowing machine and the Zwift bike, for a ride around London.

We're a ship without a storm
Cold without the warm
Light inside the darkness lit at peace

Lyrics from “The Last In Line” by Ronnie James Dio, which is a great song by one of my personal favourite music artists; at least I believe that is a correct terminology for him. Or at least he was when he was alive, but he isn’t anymore.

I’m guessing that it’s such a mystery

We are lightning, we are flame
And we burn at the touch of a spark
When there’s no fire, if no-one sees
There is only the dark
Just imagine, will you try?
I can see that you’ve opened your mind 
Silver linings can disappear 
But they always shine 

Just some more lyrics but this time from a different one of Dio’s songs, they were from the song called mystery.

Well I plan on doing some more exercises tomorrow but I am unsure of what I am going to get done tomorrow, as I’m thinking that Mich is planning on getting out on the tandem tomorrow. If work isn’t too hectic for him that will probably be, as there’s that Coronavirus thingamajig which is doing the rounds recently hasn’t there?

Day 2231

Day 2231;

Today I had a BMI of 20.80, Wii Fit results are as follows; steps 10,184, distance walked 6.59, 1059kcal burned off.

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

Lunch: fried egg, baked beans, rice cake and two little cakes.

Dinner: spaghetti Bolognese and chocolate cheesecake.

Drinks: fruit squash and fruit tea.

Snacks: well there was two cake little foodstuffs that I had and Jaffa cakes.

So I know a man that has walked 25 miles the other night, how long should it take how far can this man walk in an hour? As I had done a little treadmill walk today, I managed to walk 6.5km in the hour, according to the treadmill. So let’s just agree that 1.6km equals a mile, now have we agreed? I’ll just go along with it anyway. 3*1.6=4.8 and 5*1.6=8 so then 4*1.6=6.4. Now with that being that I walked at slightly quicker than 4mph so it I was to walk at that speed for six hours I would probably be somewhere within sight of the finish line. But then that’s on the flat, it was done inside and it’s me (freak) but my watch only says that I have done 3miles of walking in that hour so that means that I may have walked about 3mph which has me at 24miles in 8hours, so that should mean that I would probably have done his walk in 9hours. But then again I’m saying that it’d probably take me about 10hours to walk 25miles as I’d probably get lost along time way and stuff, and the time that he started his walk should mean that it took him longer still as it was late at night so he’d probably have to get in some shut eye. So anyway what I’m attempting to state is that he has my respect. I’m wondering how quick we could go on a tandem together, with me as the stoker, with his impressive sense of direction also it could be something else; if I don’t slow him down too much- which in fairness I shouldn’t as when we did the ride 100miles in an hour ride around a track Mich and I beat him (as he was on his own).

As I was the other day wondering how to get myself swimming again, I thought that I should probably go into some more detail on some of what I had typed the other day. As I typed that I had no memory of the incident with the cars actually happening, as my last memory was one of me having a fight with my parents on a night and storming upstairs to my room I believe that my father had even hit me on this occasion, so I believe that this time I must have done something really bad. But then again it didn’t hurt, I could have never high on some naturally occurring drug (like adrenaline) at the time. It was the first time that I had been hit by him sure I had been hit by my mother on numerous occasions before but as it was my father, my first (from him) and it didn’t feel like I had been hit at all. I was getting disillusioned. So much so that when I had been sent to bed I couldn’t sleep. So I did the old trick of strangulation to get myself to sleep, I know it may be one of my suicidal tendencies but don’t try this one out for yourselves kids or adults, but the principle goes like this if you strangle yourself with your hands then you should only be strangling yourself when you’re conscious so then after a while when you knock yourself out your hands should release then you should be asleep. So that was the principle it rarely if ever worked with me. But then again I was like even if it doesn’t work what’s the best that could happen? I could die. What’s the worst that could happen? I could live, which is the default anyway so I might as well go through with it. Anyway I fell asleep and the next morning it wasn’t the next morning, I woke up in a strange place which I ended up calling Jailey. 

Now recently, I don’t know how recently in reality but fast forward quite a bit from what I was stating happened something like 13 years back I have learned that the girl that I apparently loved was from Sri Lanka but who’s mother was Russian, so it’s not only these foreign women that I have a thing for, but more especially Russian women or the descents of them that I have a thing for, never minding that my only “official” girlfriend has been from a small town which is next to the town that I live in. Such a shame that I never understood what I was supposed to do as her boyfriend. Why do I consist on wallowing in the pity of my failures? I’ve got to have done something within this life.

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.