• Kneeded To Rest

    Posted on 5 June 2025

    Last week I finally over-did things and injured myself and, more specifically, my right knee. It was, inevitably, entirely my fault and something I could have avoided if I’d swallowed my pride. [Read More]
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  • Pocket Parser

    Posted on 22 May 2025

    Earlier today I received an email telling me that Mozilla was shutting down Pocket, a service which allowed you to save links to web pages you wanted to read later. [Read More]
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  • Breakfast

    Posted on 18 May 2025

    I very rarely eat breakfast. I might if I am in a hotel but then it has tended to be a Full English just because it feels like a treat. But I never really feel hungry first thing so I spend the morning drinking a few cups of (terrible, instant)... [Read More]
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  • The Health Benefits

    Posted on 18 May 2025

    Before I started changing my lifestyle I had heard that weight-loss and exercise are meant to help increase your energy levels and help improve your mental health. It’s now been four months since I changed what I eat and almost as long since I started doing regular exercise. I’ve lost... [Read More]
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  • I Run

    Posted on 16 May 2025

    Five weeks ago I wrote about my first couple of weeks of doing the NHS Couch to 5K running plan. When I published the post I had just completed running blocks of 90 seconds and was looking forward to starting week three and three minute runs. At the back of... [Read More]
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  • Zwift And Garmin Connect Intensity Minutes

    Posted on 30 April 2025

    Garmin Connect tracks, amongst an awful lot of other things, intensity minutes. These are useful as a guideline about how much activity you are doing per week, particularly if you want to make sure you are hitting the recommended guidelines. [Read More]
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  • Food Noise

    Posted on 26 April 2025

    One of the YouTube channels I have started watching recently is Mark Lewis’s. He is generally very fit and healthy but he has a non-visible problem which is something I also have, and so do a lot of other people. It’s the problem of food addiction or, as he also... [Read More]
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  • It's Not A Journey

    Posted on 25 April 2025

    I sat down to start drafting a blog post about the personal changes I’ve made over the last few months and realised I’ve been thinking about it, and calling it, a journey. It’s not. [Read More]
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  • 1,000 Kilometres

    Posted on 24 April 2025

    This evening I climbed off my Zwift Ride and grinned. Since it arrived at the end of January, I’d cycled over 1,000 kilometres on it. [Read More]
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  • Finally Overweight

    Posted on 20 April 2025

    This morning I did my weekly weigh-in and I was down to 89.5 KG. Apart from being below 90 KG (I was by a whisker last week) it also means, according to the NHS BMI calculator, that my BMI is now 29.9… I am no longer obese and have just... [Read More]
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