Cycle Training Day 1

It’s 8:34 on Thursday 2nd April and I’m finally sitting on the cycling machine at the SportLife gym in Podil.

I have 4 months until the start of my 2,000 km cycle and for such an early hours, I’m surprisingly upbeat about it. This isn’t obvious from the less-than creative title I came up with for this first entry, but I am.

Cycling isn’t very popular in Ukraine and this probably explains why there are only two cycling machines here despite the fact that it’s a large modern and new Gym and I’ve never seen anyone except me use them.

From my seat I have a wide view of the pool which I intend to use every other day to ease the tediousness of cycle training and where I was yesterday morning under the pretext that I shouldn’t rush into any heavy training.

Between me and the pool are the running machines and today I’m behind an exceptionally attractive brunette in a pink t-shirt. To my left is a funny/ridiculous step machine where a woman is doing some high-intensity ‘shuffling’.

I had promised to use my training time ‘on the saddle’ to ‘re-listen to my pimsuleur teach yourself Ukrainian but perhaps I’ll start that tomorrow.

Level 4
30 minutes
6:01 miles
172 calories burned (less than a croissant!)

Now it’s time to replace those calories with a ‘breakfast for champions’.