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Driving causing need for basic car redesign

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 13, 2011

In recent years I have noticed an increasing number of people who obviously need a fundamental redesign of the car. Put simply many people no longer have long enough arms. You see them all the time driving in a very uncomfortable position. They suffer from a choice between two bad options: EITHER they cannot fit their stomach behind the steering wheel OR [...]

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Diet progress: 7kg down

Leave a Comment Posted by on April 1, 2011

Today marked one of those pleasing mini milestones that I find motivationally helpful. I have now lost 7kg since 1st January. Every few days I see a weight on the scales that I have not seen in a long time (if ever, when I was going up past this weight I was not weighing myself [...]

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The 10kg turnaround

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 28, 2011

Recently my diet has progressed to the point where I am about 10kg down from my maximum weight last summer. That weight scared me quite a bit and so I took action to lose about 7kg although I then put 2kg back on over Christmas. Since the beginning of 2011 I have lost 5kg (which [...]

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Roads, Casualties and Public Health: the Open Sewers of the 21st Century

4 Comments Posted by on February 13, 2011

I thought I had written about this before but it seems I only tweeted it (so many choices so easy to forget what you’ve done). Anyway this Roads, Casualties and Public Health: the Open Sewers of the 21st Century is a long presentation (about 1 hour), a lecture with all the slides. Unlike all the speculation [...]

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100 today! Daily Habits work

4 Comments Posted by on February 7, 2011

So today is my 100th day in a row that I have kept my “Ride a bike every day habit”. According to HabitForge.com I have now succeeded 100 days in a row. It has been 175 days since I started monitoring the habit with a success rate of 91% as I have ridden a bike [...]

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What helps me improve fitness & lose weight

1 Comment Posted by on February 4, 2011

In some ways it is far too early for me to be writing this post. It might appear as if I am all sorted whereas I still have a long way to go. Still I have lost 9.5 kg since around May 2010 and 4.5 kg of that so far in 2011. I have also [...]

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#ride:10miles of healthy therapy

4 Comments Posted by on January 31, 2011

Life is tough and sad at the moment. I have tried different ways of coping in the past. They have not been generally successful. I guess my two most common responses are to eat and sleep (at least hide in bed). I have used those many times and it has been a key factor in accumulating [...]

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On School runs

Leave a Comment Posted by on November 22, 2010

So today I was riding back from the Leicester Royal Infirmary at about the time all the roads clog up with parents driving to school to collect their kids. Here is my experience of the traffic that causes: Horrible isn’t it. All those fumes and the frustration of not going anywhere. However, there are some [...]

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Missed seminal habit moment

1 Comment Posted by on October 20, 2010

It is good to note that I have now cycled every day for 44 days. A bit sad that I missed marking the 42nd day (Sunday) here on 42bikes. The habit is getting stronger & riding is easier. Weight loss has slowed but slow improvements to body shape continue. My thanks to habitforge: Forge new habits. [...]

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