So this month has been a bit of a write off so far training wise! My back has been bad and this week i think I have had Covid so have struggle to even walk a lot 🙁
This morning i woke up at 5 am got ready then woke my sun up and we walked to the gym but unfortunately my son’s access didn’t work so we walked home again without working out! We are going to try again tomorrow to see if he can get in or not!
On the plus side I got 10000 steps in today so its a start to getting 10000 steps a day in again from today! I did have to go back to bed for a few hours when we got home and I have been in bed basically all day but its a start at least!
I have decided that I will do the gym Wednesday on my own and then Saturday and Sunday mornings with my son then it leaves me a bunch of early mornings to ride the bike!
Last night I put a low offer and a 21″ Mankind Sunchaser Park/Trail frame on ebay and won it so that will be here next week so I have decided to go to the skatepark in the mornings and ride for an hour before work to try and learn to ride skateparks over the summer! I am thinking that learning to ride skateparks will help me to learn to manual and jump better at lower speeds as well as get me fitter as well!
Looking at the details of the Mankind frame it is a full chrome frame that has a slightly longer backend as its made for riding fast and jumping so should feel a bit more like a race BMX hopefully! I will build it up with all the parts off of my son’s park bike which is way too small for him now so the mankind should fit us both better 🙂 When I have paid some more off of my paypal credit I will buy some pegs to try and re-learn to grind as there are some nice rails and grinder boxes at the skatepark! I am going to swap out the stem from my GT PowerSeries with the stem on the park bike as the stem on the park bike is a top loader so the bard feel way too high when I ride it!
The frame comes with a chain for a 28 x 9 and the current front sprocket is a 25T so I am looking to see if I have a 28T sprocket in the parts box. If not I will have to wait to build it up until I the same time as I buy the pegs to build up the bike!
I think that the Mankind frame will be good on pump tracks too so I may use it as my one bike to do everything other than ride on the BMX track!