Just a little bit buggered....

 I'm feeling a bit buggered today, as this morning I had my first summer bike ride.

Mind you, I'm pretty happy with the way it went.

If you've been following this blog you'll be aware that in the warmer months I ride my bike round town roughly once a week on summer mornings for exercise.

I'd had half a plan earlier this year to keep on riding on fine winter days, but it all came to naught.

The weather turned wet and J had a couple of hospital trips over winter and I completely lost the rythym of it.

I usually like to start in mid-October, but I'm almost a month late getting going this year.

I actually had my bike ready to go a couple of weeks ago, but it turned wet, then cold, almost winter temperatures in the morning, so today was the first decent morning for ages.

Today it was a lovely spring morning, and a great day for a ride.

There seemed to be fewer cars on the road this morning, perhaps with the cost of fuel people are car pooling more, and there were more people on bikes than usual, quite a few of whom looked like they were riding to work, rather than doing it for fun like me.

There were fewer dog walkers out as well, perhaps because the caravan site that the bike path runs past is less busy, again due to the cost of fuel.

Before I stopped riding in April I was doing my circuit in about forty minutes, today it took me about five minutes more.

I'm not particularly worried about my drop off in fitness, unlike last year we didn't have a winter break this year, which of course meant no swimming or serious bushwalking, which always helps keep my strength up over winter.

What I was pleased with was that, even though I was slower, when I checked my fitbit data, my heart rate was pretty good averaging around 125 over the ride - a decent level of activity and about what I was averaging last year, so even though I may have lost a little bit of strength over winter I've managed to somehow maintain my cardio fitness