Basic equipment AND Special buy

These are my cycling socks. They make me cycle much faster! They are labelled left and Right, they have my shoe size on them and they tell me they are for cycling. These are basic equipment needed for cycling which came from one of my special buys magazine!

Today is another 1 year anniversary for me. I won't bore anyone with details and its not actually the date I've gone by its the Saturday. I just want to mark it as this is like my daily diary and today is important to me. A year ago I thought we had hope and things were going to look up. But it wasn't to be.

So back to my basic equipment and special buys! I took them out on my 13 mile ride today, I went a familiar route and to my friend out in Singapore if you read this we always went the harder way round I'm sure! I also learnt today that if I cycle properly I may get that washboard stomach!!

I have seen people signing up to the 30 day abs challenge. It looks good but I can't do sit ups so thats my challenge over before I start. So today when going up a slight incline I didn't use my arms to lean on as usual, I sat up and pulled my stomach in and let my legs do ALL the work and no arms. Well did it make a difference to my muscles being used?

Sports physios in the family may tell me a load of rubbish but it felt good today!

It was very hot today so another part of basic equipment, my sunglasses, which I only use for protection of flies, came off half way round to prevent panda eyes!

Thankyou basic equipment and special buys.