Healthful exercise

[louiselux]

18 miles omg, 3 hours, total: 84 miles

Have leaped ahead to day 4 and am now in the the Old Forest

Just so you know, I am not on the exercise bike when I do these huge stints of cycling that take all afternoon, but on my actual bike. So, the 18 miles yesterday included cycling in a large circle that took in Reading, Checkendon and then Woodcote and back along the lanes to Reading, nearly all of it along back lanes and woods.

It was beautiful; hot enough to warrant shorts and the sky was absolutely clear blue all day, with the trees just showing new green leaves, blossom everywhere, random siamese cats, a gang of pensioners on tandems, buzzards, kites, many cows (live ones), bluebell woods and a peregrine falcon that crashed through a hedge about a foot from my face.

I have been doing pilates for the last four weeks-- "make sure your pelvis is in neutral"-- and I am beginning to see a difference in my waistline, or rather feel a difference when I put on last year's summer clothes. Everything fits just that little bit better.

Comments

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

Squeefest! Are you thinking of going, and if so do you want to be in the college or a B&B? And if it's a B&B, would you like to share a room? :-)

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

B&B would be nice, if we could get one somewhere near. I've got to admit that the college rooms weren't that comfy, even if they were cheap. We should look into it. :) Can I aim you about it later?

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

Yay! I should be back in the land of internet sometime this evening. (OMG, my mother is attacking my house. It was relatively neat and now has reached its natural tip-like condition, despite having thrown out a lot of stuff. the Room of Things is half empty!)