Sunday 10th August 2025
Weight = 102.9 kgs
Steps = 4530 Steps
This morning I woke up at 5:00 with my alarm and then went back to sleep until I woke up at 5:30 ish so I got up and did my weigh-in and I was surprised to see that I was down below 103 kgs again today (102.9kgs)! I then went back to sleep until about 9:30 when I got up, ate, showered and headed to the track to meet my friends! I am not sure what was going on with me today but i really struggled to get out of bed and ended up arriving almost 30 minutes late to meet my friends which is really un-like me! I grabbed the new Shimano Saints cranks off of my friend when I saw him too and they are super new!
I then rode until about 12:30 and then headed to may parents for the afternoon and had lunch 🙂
I then stayed at my parents until 17:00 when I headed home via my friends house to grab the Black Market and chatted for a while and then headed home! While I was at my parents I also swapped the Standard OS20 for my black Curtis as I need to build it up as my winter bike! I may also try the bouncy forks on it too.
When I got home I chilled for a bit then went to sleep at about 21:30. By the end of the day I had only done 4530 Steps 🙁
Monday 11th August 2025
Weight = 102.9 kgs
Steps = 8033 Steps
This morning I woke up at 5:00 and snoozed for 10 minutes before getting up and doing my weigh-in. I was still 102.9 kgs which considering the amount of Sunday lunch and cold meat I ate all afternoon was pretty impressive! I also did less that 5000 steps yesterday so I was pretty sure that the weight was going to go up so staying the same is a bonus 🙂
I then ate and drank some LNMT and then got dressed and drove to the track and walked from the road to the track and got the S&M out of the container and did some 3rd and 4th straights again! This morning I worked on pull manual on and manual off of the camel and I got a hand full that were clean and smooth and defo faster then pump on manual off I think. At about 6:30 I headed back to the car, loaded the S&M onto the roof and then headed home.
By the time I got home I was on 2181 Steps already so at 6 am I was on almost half of my steps that I did yesterday! That being said I still have a lot of walking to get done today to get to 10000 steps by bedtime and I am on call tonight so I will need to go for a walk at some point!
When I got home at about 12:30 and then started working again about 14:00 and then worked all the away through to 22:00 so no real time for walking this evening! By the end of the day I was only on 8033 steps by the end of the day so well under 10000 steps I wanted to do!
Tuesday 12th August 2025
Weight = 102.9 kgs
Steps = 5570 Steps
This morning I woke up at 5:00 and decided to sleep another hour as I was super tired! I then got up at 6:00 and did my weigh-in and I was 102.0 kgs again this morning! The 3rd day in a row that I am the same weight! I then did some work then showered and went to the office on the S&M? On the way home at about 11:00 I mad a discovery! I need a longer stem to make the S&M better at sprinting as when I get in a sprint position my knees hit the bars! I am looking for a 50 mm stem at the moment to try when I get paid!
When I finished work at 12:00 I got my son moving and then we went driving as he is now on my insurance so for the first time in 3 months since passing his test he is able to drive 🙂
We got home about 17:00 and I am just cooking food before dragging my son out for a walk in a bit as I am only on 4857 steps at the moment!
By the end of the day I was only on 5570 Steps 🙁
Wednesday 13th August 2025
Weight = 102.9 kgs
Steps = Steps
So I woke up without an alarm at 5:20 and shot out of bed and did my weigh-in and I was still 102.9 kgs. Being a bit skeptical that I was still 102.9 kgs again today (4th day in a row!) I tested to make sure that the scales weren’t knackered by grabbing a dumbbell weighing myself again and I was heavier by the correct weight so I guess I have hit a plateau Where the food that I am eating is enough to keep me the same weight 🙂 I haven’t been walking that much recently so I need to step that up to try and kick start some weight loss again!
I then did some work, ate and then got dressed and about 6:15 I was at the track and doing 3rd and 4th straights. The new cranks feel really good as does being clipped in again 🙂 I’ll be honest I think that being clipped in helps the most and even though I am used to riding flats now as soon as I have clips on I am able to tap manual and hop out of manuals to get more backside from them! I think I will stick to riding clips on the track and flats everywhere else for now.
I have just got a notification that my Profile Racing Cranks are going to be here between 9:00 and 12:00 so that is exciting although I can’t fit them now as I need to spend another at least £100 to fit them on the S&M. Although looking on the Ultra BMX Gearing chart I could drop a tooth on the back and then go 30 x 15 and that would be the same gearing as the current 32 x 16 so I may try that instead. That being said 31 x 15 is a roll-out of 54.13 which is just below a 37 x 16 on the Cruiser (54.35 roll out) so that may be the best option especially as I have a 31t Tall Order Sprocket in the parts box already so that saves the £40 on a sprocket too 🙂
I am going to leave the bike alone for now but I may well get a 15t rear cog and try running the 31 x 15 with the Profile Racing Cranks to have less things to go wrong with them as the Profile Cranks don’t have any chain ring bolts to get loose and fall off etc. However the Saints are super stiff and similar to the DXR’s that I run on the Cruiser!