So this morning I woke up with my alarm which is not normal and was feeling a bit crappy but I got up and did my way in and I’m still at 103.5 kgs this morning so no lost weight but no gained weight either! I then showered and then did some work and then at about 5:45 I drove into the office and fixed some servers that I had to fix and then drove home again. I got home at 6:45 and decided to go for a walk and what a difference a day makes! I was really struggling to walk today and my legs were sore and I was struggling to breath which is totally the opposite of yesterday morning where I was flying on the bike and feeling great!
As I was feeling so bad I only did my short lap so when I got home I was only on 4315 steps for the day which is pretty low but better than if I hadn’t walked at all and my back feels less tight so it was worth it!
Today’s mission is to clean and organise the flat at lunch time so that I can get my backwards treadmill set up and start getting my 10 minutes in a day again as my knees are starting to miss it!
I have loads of deliveries today so hopefully they all arrive before lunch time so that I can get to the post office and do some errands that need doing. Otherwise I will be stuck doing errands after work 🙁
From what I can see the 2 18t Profile cogs are arriving today as well as my bigger race pants and maybe a chain too. So hopefully by this evening I can get the Cult and maybe the S&M fully built up and working. I should also be able to get the Curtis all sorted as the cable ties arrive today too! It looks like the cable ties and a bunch of stuff from Amazon will be arriving later on so I will not be able to go to the post office at lunch time anyway 🙁 The delivery also has a bunch of stuff for the flat like outside broom, new mop and bucket and 8 more of the shoe boxes as they are way better for storing shoes that I thought that they would be 🙂 Unfortunately the clothes rail that I need to organise my BMX kit properly will not arrive until tomorrow!
The new wheels and headset for the Federal have been posted so they should be here tomorrow or Friday so I can get the bike built up by the weekend hopefully then start playing on it.
So the Profile mini axle has just arrived so once the lock ring arrives I will get that all swapped out so that it is ready to build up when the rims arrive in a couple of weeks 🙂
I have just got a message to say that the cogs and race pants will arrive between 10:30 and 11:30 so I could have got out at lunch time if I had the envelopes. I may get the sitckers ready to go at lunch time then when the envelopes arrive I am ready to go to take them to post.
I have also got a message to stay that the wheels and headset have arrived in Bristol so they may come out for delivery today but realistically it will be tomorrow or knowing DHL Friday or next week! I have a 14:42-15:42 window for the wheels so lets see if that is just fake news or not!
So for once DHL delivered on their promise and the wheels and headset were delivered at 3pm as promised 🙂 so once I finished work and walked to the letter box to post a letter and back I got to work building the Federal! It took about an hour to get it right as I had to keep stopping to do bit and bobs for work but its all done now and I can’t wait to ride it in the skatepark tomorrow morning.
I plan to wake up at 5 as normal, do some work then get showered and changed and ride into the office do some more work that is needed and then head home via the skatepark and I will have 30 minutes of playing before heading home to get back to work!
I actually really like how the gold wheels look on the bike and over time I may get a gold chain ring, stem and seat post to bling the bike up a bit more but for now I’m happy with it and I am excited to start trying to learn some tricks on it and improve my manuals as much as I can over the winter.
In the evening I finished up the cleaning and then did my 10 minutes of backwards walking to get over my 10000 steps for the day. Its now 20:22 and I’m on 10966 steps so I unintentionally got my 10000 steps in today and also got my 10 minutes of backwards walking in too 🙂 I think I will start focusing on getting the steps and backwards walking in for the rest of the week and then on Saturday and Sunday focus on riding the bike. I may try and get to the track at lunchtime to have a play as I haven’t really ridden the track for a while!
So I have just finished building the Cult while I was waiting for the tumble dryer to finish I stole the cranks for the OS20 build but when I get my 175 mm forward cranks back off of my friend I will swap them back as I don’t really want the DXR’s on the Cult as it will be way too expensive to leave anywhere!
I have just got a message to say that I will be getting a delivery at lunch time so I most likely will not be able to ride the track this lunchtime either! The delivery is the new belt for the ebike so I need it to get the ebike working again so that I ride it to the track once I leave a bike in the container!
I am looking for a way to carry a bike on the ebike then I can ride the ebike at lunch times as it will be faster than the car for sure!
I have jsut found a set of black S&M 29er bars so I have bought them and I will put them on the Curtis when they arrive and I will put the white ones on the Cult and then all 3 bikes have the same setup cockpit and crank/ pedal wise so they should all feel the same 🙂
I have decided that tomorrow I will swap over the brand new cranks on the Cult for the used ones from the Curtis then the Curtis will have brand new shinny cranks and the Cult will look a bit less bling! I want the Curtis to be brand new and race ready for next season and the Cult is going to be my Do everything bike so it doesn’t need to be shinny!