Fitness

Paul Boyd said:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/8kls is an interesting one. (links to BBC website)
The comments generally seem to assume that the only way to get fit is
to use a gym. What an indictment on society!

Especially as the original article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5277350.stm
contains the quote of Ms Flint (the Public Health minister):

"And I think that that is important, because a lot of people think that
they have to go to the gym five times a week and if they can't do that,
they can't do anything - and that is just not true."

When I used to smoke I was very lethargic in the mornings. Giving up
the tabs helped slightly, but it was still a struggle to get out of bed
before I absolutely had to. Stumbling out of bed at 8.30am still bleary
eyed and wobbling into work.

3 weeks of light cycling (4 or 5 hours a week) and I'm waking up at 7am
every day and I'm wide awake. I'm now up to 8 hours cycling during the
week and another 8 hours at the weekend.

-Alex

Alex said the following on 23/08/2006 12:53:

Quoted message said:

Especially as the original article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5277350.stm
contains the quote of Ms Flint (the Public Health minister):

I didn't see that article (I have now.) The link I posted was straight
from the BBC News front page. As you say, it makes the whole thing even
more ironic! Even Blair is quoted as saying he will go to the gym more
often.

Quoted message said:

Stumbling out of bed at 8.30am still bleary
eyed and wobbling into work.

"out of bed at 8.30am"?? I've done an hours work by then! Even if I am
still bleary eyed :-)

--
Paul Boyd
http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/

"Alex" <[email hidden]> wrote:
| 3 weeks of light cycling (4 or 5 hours a week) and I'm waking up at 7am
| every day and I'm wide awake. ...

Oh, it's the cycling is it? I was afraid it was the cappuccini.
I'm wide awake and up an hour before anyone else in the house,
but it is 6:55 with me, which just gives me time to get the milk
in and get to the downstairs radio for the pre-7am weather forecast
in the toady program.

Geraint Jones said:

"Alex" <[email hidden]> wrote:
| 3 weeks of light cycling (4 or 5 hours a week) and I'm waking up at 7am
| every day and I'm wide awake. ...

Oh, it's the cycling is it? I was afraid it was the cappuccini.
I'm wide awake and up an hour before anyone else in the house,
but it is 6:55 with me, which just gives me time to get the milk
in and get to the downstairs radio for the pre-7am weather forecast
in the toady program.

I quite often listen to the Toady programme.

Fascinating creatures,toads.

Sam Salt

Sam Salt <[email hidden]> wrote:
| Geraint Jones wrote:
| > in the toady program.
|
| I quite often listen to the Toady programme.

OK, OK, programME. But they do have a toady program on the toady programme.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/reports/misc/today_slogan_20060707.shtml

"Geraint Jones" <[email hidden]>
wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

"Alex" <[email hidden]> wrote:
| 3 weeks of light cycling (4 or 5 hours a week) and I'm waking up at 7am
| every day and I'm wide awake. ...

Oh, it's the cycling is it? I was afraid it was the cappuccini.
I'm wide awake and up an hour before anyone else in the house,
but it is 6:55 with me, which just gives me time to get the milk
in and get to the downstairs radio for the pre-7am weather forecast
in the toady program.

Luxury! I have to drag myself out of bed at 0515, ride 12 miles to work, do
an 8 hour shift. ride home again, gobble down my tea and then go out for a
tough club ride in the evening of 40 miles.

--
Simon Mason
http://www.simonmason.karoo.net

On 23/08/2006 17:20, Simon Mason said,

Quoted message said:

Luxury! I have to drag myself out of bed at 0515, ride 12 miles to work, do
an 8 hour shift. ride home again, gobble down my tea and then go out for a
tough club ride in the evening of 40 miles.

Luxury? Is that a cardboard bed? I had to mek do with nobbut a bit o'
tatty newspaper! Licking the chip grease of for me grub!

--
Paul Boyd
http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/

"Geraint Jones" <[email hidden]>
wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

"Alex" <[email hidden]> wrote:
| 3 weeks of light cycling (4 or 5 hours a week) and I'm waking up at 7am
| every day and I'm wide awake. ...

Oh, it's the cycling is it? I was afraid it was the cappuccini.
I'm wide awake and up an hour before anyone else in the house,
but it is 6:55 with me, which just gives me time to get the milk
in and get to the downstairs radio for the pre-7am weather forecast
in the toady program.

Lucky you. No matter what time I wake up I'm always far more tired than when
I went to bed the previous night.

in message <[email hidden]>, Paul

Boyd (') said:

On 23/08/2006 17:20, Simon Mason said,

Quoted message said:

Luxury! I have to drag myself out of bed at 0515, ride 12 miles to
work, do an 8 hour shift. ride home again, gobble down my tea and then
go out for a tough club ride in the evening of 40 miles.

Luxury? Is that a cardboard bed? I had to mek do with nobbut a bit o'
tatty newspaper! Licking the chip grease of for me grub!

EEeeeee, tha' wore reet lucki, etc.

--
[email hidden] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
;; "If I were a Microsoft Public Relations person, I would probably
;; be sobbing on a desk right now" -- Rob Miller, editor, /.

Paul Boyd said:

Alex said the following on 23/08/2006 12:53:

Quoted message said:

Stumbling out of bed at 8.30am still bleary
eyed and wobbling into work.

"out of bed at 8.30am"?? I've done an hours work by then! Even if I am
still bleary eyed :-)

My commute is a whopping 450 meters.

I can't leave work before 5:30pm (occasionally yes, regularly no) so
there's not much point getting in before 9am. I'd rather use the extra
time to go out and cycle 20 miles.

In 6-9 months time my commute becomes 10km, which I'm looking forward
to as it will stop being optional.

-Alex

Alex said the following on 24/08/2006 15:25:

Quoted message said:

I can't leave work before 5:30pm (occasionally yes, regularly no) so
there's not much point getting in before 9am. I'd rather use the extra
time to go out and cycle 20 miles.

5:30pm? I've still got half an hour to go! OK, not at the moment, but
up until a month ago I would have. I bet you have an hour for lunch as
well :-) (Don't take me too seriously - this is getting like the two
Yorkshire men sketch!)

Quoted message said:

In 6-9 months time my commute becomes 10km, which I'm looking forward
to as it will stop being optional.

That's a nice distance to commute, I think. (he says, trying to work out
what 10km actually is!) I did 8 miles each way for a while, and it was
just right. Now I'm accidentally living too close to work, so only 2.5
miles which in winter is barely enough to warm up, and in summer is just
long enough to get hot!!!!

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Paul Boyd
http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/