When I can't get out on the bike or the pound the streets, I sometimes run up staircases. I try not to do this when anyone is watching as, once I get to the top, I skip down and run up them again. If you get obsessed about burning calories, er, like my friend does - not me, there are plenty of ways you can slip in a novel little exercise into whatever you are doing - so my friend says. Speed-walking everywhere is a favourite and there are lots of us, er, them, at it - jockeying for position at traffic lights; argy bargy when the pavement narrows; unruly gaits as the path widens, brushing mere pedestrians aside. Then there is the weekly shop. Don't use a trolley - carry two baskets - and away from your body. Use the supermarket as a gym. Buy in bulk and carry it all home!
For those of you who haven't gone that unnecessary step-too-far and visited to the Ride100 website, here is the route...
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| my morning run |
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