This morning I woke up with my alarm at 7am and did my weigh-in (102.5 kgs) and then got up and got my son up and ready as he is was going on holiday and I had to drop him off to his lift at 8:30 am. I put the mtb on the car and then went to my parents once I had dropped my son off and then drove to my parents house where I was going to meet my friend for a ride!
When I got to my parents I got the bike ready by pumping up the tyres and oiling the chain and then got into my riding kit and waited for my friend to arrive.
We then rode for 40.54 minutes as we did the short route to batcombe and back but that was enough for me as my haemorrhoids were really sore by the end of the ride! on the ride we covered 6.2 miles and climbed 558ft and had an average speed of 9.1mph so we were taking it really steady to say the least as neither of us had been out on the bike for months!
We were chatting and I have sold my road bike to my friend as he is going to use the parts off of my bike to upgrade his current bike as my road bike has a Shimano 105 group set on it and basically new wheels so is an upgrade for his bike.
This means that I am now committed to getting a gravel bike as I do not enjoy riding the mtb as its heavy and the gears are a bit low on it to climb at any kind of speed so replacing it with the gravel bike will improve that I hope.
When we got back from the ride we chatted for a bit and he has basically bought all of my stuff that I want to sell and I am buying a lot of his stuff too so we are both clearing our sheds and filling them up again with each others old crap 🙂
I am basically getting rid of the road bike and getting some 26″ MTB wheels and some Onyx 20″ bmx wheels back so I was going to use the mtb wheels on the 4X bike and the Onyx wheels can go on the Dialled build when I start it after I finish the OS20 build which is next on the to do list!
When my friend left I got on with cleaning my parents house and was done by 1:30 and headed home. By the time I got home I was on 8600 steps already so I chilled and watched tv and then at 21:30 I still had 500 steps to go so I got on the treadmill and walked the rest of my steps.
I finished the day on 10076 steps so just scraped over the 10000 steps for the day!