Planning ahead

Learnt a valuable lesson this week. Planning.

I know the 12WBT program goes on and on and on about planning everything and I definitely do but I was able to adapt to the planning quite readily this week and I am quite proud of myself.

So, as it goes, I was riding my bike to work on Monday all going well until about 10 minutes in when the rain started coming down, really hard. There were puddles all over the road, I was absolutely saturated and my brakes were becoming very slow and squeaky. So I did what any sensible beginner bike rider does - I turned around and went home. I only burnt 200 calories that morning, when I usually burn around 600 calories each way! So my big workout for the week was ruined and now I needed to reschedule my workout.

I went home (it was still only 6:20am) changed and showered and headed off to work, gym bag in hand and cardio workout planned for the afternoon that went off without a hitch and I ended up burning 659 calories in total on Monday.

Then Tuesday, so I tried again riding to work. It was a beautiful morning and a great ride until I made it to about mid-way up the large hill right near work where I was really struggling, so much that I had to get off the bike. I then found out that I had a slow leak and my tyre was almost flat. Not having a bike pump on hand at work I had to catch the train home and I did still manage to burn 905 calories including the walk from the station!

Lesson learned, it doesnt matter what you do as long as you get moving! Dont worry if things don't go to plan usually the extra effort of carrying a bag or riding up a big hill with a flat tyre will burn more calories!