I ride a bike somewhere most days, although maybe 1 day a week it is just popping down the shops, or riding to the next town to swim in the river (about 6 miles or so) or something else slack.
I do tend to walk or run somewhere most days, a lot of evenings we do 5 to 10 mile walks, usually in a hurry because we start them too late. Oh yeah and swimming. I count days when I don’t do much biking as rest days though, as they don’t seem to tire me out in the same way.
I had what was supposed to be a sort of rest day on Saturday – turned out that I needed to pop down the sports centre in the morning to check out their hall, which is the other side of the hill, meaning 5 miles of riding including a detour to pick up a parcel, then once I got there, I figured I’d have a go at indoor swimming, not having swum in a pool for a few years, did some intervals and stuff, ended up swimming 2500 metres (pool swimming is somehow much easier than proper swimming with currents and things, although having to turn round all the time is a pain), then come the afternoon, we were off up to Black Rocks with climbing shoes and running shoes, and I was given the task of tiring out a very energetic 10 year old, which meant an hour and a half of climbing rock slabs / going headfirst through caves too big for me to sensibly fit and then running up the steepest slopes we could find until we got to the top of Bole Hill.
Joe
