Day Seventeen: Eduardo’s Road To Fitness

I try to avoid conversations on either politics or religion.  My dad told me it was a good idea and he was a pretty clever chap.  Under extreme duress and without any obvious sign of an escape route, I think, I would talk religion but you would have to be holding a large gun to [...]

Day Sixteen: Eduardo’s Road To Fitness

Yesterday turned out to be a much needed rest day for me.  I interrupted the day with a swim at the beach, a 200m effort carried out at a relaxed steady pace – easily enforced by the poor visibility in the water and my wish to avoid swimming straight into one of the purple jellyfish, [...]

Day Fifteen: Eduardo’s Road To Fitness

I woke up yesterday morning and felt fine.  I did not feel odd in anyway whatsoever.  I had a large bowl of Weetabix, with a sprinkling of raisins and a generous helping of skimmed milk.  Like a young child, I watched miniature rivers form in the slowly softening Weetabix, my eyes transfixed on the numerous [...]

Day Fourteen: Eduardo’s Road To Fitness

We are all waiting for Jesus to arrive.  He gets back from his trip to Austria on Saturday and will swing by to collect his ferret.  It smells.  No really, it stinks.  The girls washed it.  Twice.  They went so far as to spray an entire room in perfume but the smell of the ferret [...]

Day Thirteen: Eduardo’s Road To Fitness

It is funny how after a while things that not so long ago would have shocked you, stopping you dead in your tracks are now accepted as the norm, filtered out and hardly given any attention all.  It is the difference between being a tourist and being a local.
You see tourists are on the look [...]

Day Twelve: Eduardo’s Road To Fitness

Anyone old enough to remember the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster will remember the expression ‘No Pain, No Gain’. It was a motto that Jane Fonda used back in the early 80’s in her series of work out videos.  The catch-phrase was then adopted by bodybuilders who believed that in order to develop larger muscles one [...]

Day Eleven: Eduardo’s Road To Fitness

I remember watching a film in a motel a while back.  It was in a nameless motel. All I can tell you is that it was about twenty minutes ride in a freezing transfer coach from the airport. I had, through no fault of my own, been persuaded that another drink in the Irish Pub [...]

Day Ten: Eduardo’s Road To Fitness

Yesterday turned out to be a very quiet day, in terms of training and exercise.  We were planning on having a peacefull day at the beach as we had all been up late the night before at the Chicken Restaurant.
The phone rang and it was Jose.  He wanted us to come over for a swim [...]

Day Nine: Eduardo’s Road To Fitness

How much juice is left in the tank?
On Friday afternoon I set off on a two-hour road ride wondering how my legs would feel after the three and a half hour session I had done the day before.  The short answer is they felt pretty bad.  At the start of the first twenty minute climb [...]

Day Eight: Eduardo’s Road To Fitness

The other day I was talking to a guy in a bike shop about virtual reality trainers, he was a customer of mine and he was telling me how that with the latest virtual reality turbo trainers, you can pop your bike onto the device, choose a route from a database of cycle rides, climb [...]