Hi all,
This month (and probably the rest of the year!) sees me on a fitness quest. Well, actually, it’s more of a ‘get rid of that beer gut’ quest, but saying I’m “trying to get fit” seems to impress people more than “I’m trying to lose weight”, where they invariably look straight at my widening waist 
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Anyway to cut this story a little short I dug my Weider “Body Works Pro” out of my garage last week to begin the long hard slog to my perfectly sculptered body. After half an hour of dusting it down I put on my tracksuit and then, err, did nothing! I couldn’t remember how to use it, doh! I looked high and low for the exercise chart, which I seemed to remember came with the equipment.
Cycling is one of my hobbies, well not really just a hobby, with an office job I have to do something to keep fit, and this is one way to keep fit where I can take the kids along as well (or rather, they take me!). I’ve always wanted to do some touring on a bike, and now that there are more cycle paths in the UK than ever before I’ve planning to give it a go this summer if the weather is dry for long enough (I have to admit I don’t like cycling on roads, too many people who think it only takes 10% of their concentration 
to drive, yeah, right!).
Anyway, I was considering taking the my TOM-TOM that I use in the car, but having looked into it more I realise that it’s a bit bulky, probably not really robust enough for a bike and will need charging from a large 12V battery a couple of times a day. So I took a look round and found that Garmin do a reasonably priced GPSs made specially for cycling AND they have a built in training thingy. I have an original Garmin GPS 12 which I bought new about 10 years ago which I still take with me when I go out on a days walk, and that’s never let me down, so I decided Garmin was the way to go for outdoor GPS…