A Day At The Races

On Saturday me and Vince went to Beverley races as part of Nigel's stag day. I've never done the races before, never had an interest in horse racing and only ever ridden past the course on my bike. Nigel seemed to enjoy himself though but we all seemed to end up in seperate groups. It was a decent day out, pity that weekend the weather had decided to turn colder but it was good to look around at all the other punters that were out for the day, an experience!

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Spinning Around

Today was Bank Holiday and managed to miss the rain that started later in the day, Saturday me and Vinny were in town when it started thundering and pouring with rain. We got a bus home and missed most of the rain and just got damp a little!

I took my first spinning class today at the gym with Bibby and it was pretty good too. It was tiring towards the end but I was surprised how fit I am, I managed to keep up with the others and felt great after the class. My legs feel good too and I just might take another class!

I feel I am getting somewhere now at the gym, I'm getting more of an idea what to do, I'm trying to do more cardio to burn fat, I've started to run again and I can see the results in my body, Well done Me!

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Still On Holiday

Still got a couple of days left of my summer holidays and I've enjoyed the rest even though there's no money to do much. I got a text this morning telling me that when I go back to work next week, I'll be on a 3 day week and the following week I've got Monday off but that's as much as I know right now. Guess I'll be spending more time at the gym!

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Let The Blog Slip

Ooops, I was doing so well at keeping this up to date! As I write this I am on my second week of my holidays. It's been ok so far, Vinny is here with me but there's not much money, the weather wasn't too great until the weekend and it has been sunny. Today is really hot and sunny too! I've so far been in the gym nearly every day and my body shape is slowly changing and looking good, I seem to notice little things like a muscle will look different on my shoulder or one of my favourite shirts is suddenly tight over my chest, one way of sorting your wardrobe out I guess lol!

Talking of the gym, I'm no longer working out with Steve my personal trainer. He'd left Hitness First and was still coming to the gym to train with me, but he went on holiday and when I got in touch with him, he said he was busy as his football pre season training had started so I said I'd leave it with him to get in touch, which he hasn't so I take it we won't be working out again. It is a shame as I liked him and enjoyed working out with him, but at the same time he has shown me enough to be able to carry on with his ways and ideas, the only thing is I don't have a workout partner and I can't lift the weights we used to lift on my own!

Me and Vinny did Hull Pride at the weekend, it was pretty good for my first local pride, I don't think he found it brilliant but it was slowly filling up as we left.

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The Latest Gym Session

Been to the gym tonight with Steve. He officaly left Fitness First last week and I did wonder what would be happening with the training, he come up with some ideas and also a reduction in the money he was charging. Anyhow, Amanda at the gym said that she could sign him in the gym tonight so that's what we did and we are going to try it this way until something is said, also with my membership I can sign him in on a weekend. I really think he seems pretty keen on training with me, this is my problem, I lack self confidence and think that people don't always like me or just put up with me, but I am sure he must like working out with me, time will see I guess. I did give him the option of tellig me when he didn't want to do it anymore and not to feel obliged to carry on, if we finished I think I would look at another personal trainer,

Tonight I reached a personal best on the bench press, lifting 70kg for 6 reps, which doesn't sound a great deal but it is a lot to me and means a lot too! I am getting stronger and is such a confidence booster, except right now I'm knackered lol. I so much want to be bigger and more muscular, one day!

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That Was A Nice Weekend

I've had a pretty good weekend, got my mountain bike back on Friday after geting a new back brake put on which cost me £120 but is worth it. Saturday morning I went to the gym, worked my back and abs then got sorted to go into town. I had a contact lense eye test in the afternoon, so that's why I swapped things around as usually I'd be in town then to the gym!It was sunny for a change which made things feel good, although it was cold due to the wind blowing, but seeing the sun made the difference.

Sunday morning started with my usual bike ride out, the sun was out again but a strong wind made it an interesting ride. I got into Cottingham and a cyclist was riding round a roundabout as I rode over it and he stayed behind me, I thought he'd be riding off but seemed to hang behind. He came up to me after a mile or so and apologised for riding behind me hiding from the wind and I laughed as no-one had done that before and he rode in front of me so that I could make use of the wind shield. We said our goodbyes as he went on his way as we got onto Cottingham Road, but it made me think and smile as I must have been going fast enough for him to want to stay behind me, some of these riders travel so fast, maybe I am a better rider than what I give myself credit for!

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Bank Holiday Weekend

It's been a typical Bank Holiday Weekend really, weather wise, cold and rainy! But, it has been nice having the time off work. The meds are working for my IBS so that's good, managed a workout on Saturday without farting my head off whilst working my abs.

Today I went for a ride out for an hour, was a fairly good ride and saw quite a few riders out. They, like me must have been taking advantage of the reasonably good weather, cold and breezy but still was a good ride. Later on it was my training session with Steve and reached a personal best doing bench press. I bench pressed 2x 30kg dumb bells which I'm really chuffed about and it proves things are really moving at the gym!

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