We all know that feeling. You never forget your first. Many will come and go. Some brilliant some not so much. But you never have that same feeling again. The sweaty palmed heart in the mouth anticipation of each meeting and the accompanying hot headed short lived joy. The heartbreak of those that fail and […]
Author Archives: Fat Lad
Fat Lads Gut Grind Week 4
October 9, 2009 – 1:47 pm
Gah! Didn’t really want to do two weigh in posts in a row but hey ho life gets in the way. Double Gah! I put a pound on this week 🙁 The festivities surrounding the entirely arbitrary decimal nature of our societies and my third decade were entirely to blame. That and a lot of […]
Fat Lad’s Flab Fight: Week 3
October 1, 2009 – 1:33 pm
Are we getting bored of this yet? Weight: 13 Stone 2 Pounds (182) Waist: 37 inches Loss this week: 2 Total loss: 5 So I’m losing mass but my belly doesn’t seem to be shrinking… Must be a faulty tape measure. In oh-my-god-I’m-allegedly-a-grown-up-now news; today I turn 30. Mrs Fat Lad keeps telling me she […]
Fat Lad Has a Moment
September 29, 2009 – 1:50 pm
This is a draft I’ve dug out that I never quite finished, I started typing this as soon as I got home of this particular Pootle Crew Adventure but by the end of the third paragraph the moment I was so urgently trying to commit to word had gone. It’s not here on the screen, […]
Fat Lad: Chunk Challenge Week 2
September 23, 2009 – 12:58 pm
Straight to the stats: Weight: 13 Stone 4 Pounds (184) Waist: 37 inches Loss this week: 1 Total loss:3 Well I’m chuffed (though not completely happy) with that despite the Trek guys trying to kill me with culinary kindness at the Dealers 2010 Launch day. It’s all going the right way. The new job goes […]
Fat Lad Takes a New Path
September 19, 2009 – 11:21 pm
Losing that precious hour of sunshine due to a no-show rider I summoned the will and wherewithal to still head out for the mind clearing soul cleansing home run. Available distance to be judged on the fly, limited by time and the capacity of lungs/legs. I followed the well worn trails of my hometown, the […]
Fat Lad’s First Public Weigh In
September 16, 2009 – 6:38 pm
Oooh not quite sure how to go with this… Okay here we go first up I’ll reply to the last posts comments: Mrs Fat Lad Two Comments……………… Leggy Brunettes (hmm I’m a drunkish short blonde so who are you fancying??????) – Ah that would be in no particular order: Latetia Casta, Monica Bellucci, and kate […]
Fat Lad is Getting Really Quite Fat Again
September 10, 2009 – 12:36 am
“F*ck me sideways! I weigh how MUCH?!” was the alarmed call that rang out this morning in Casa de Muchacho Gordo. The alarmed call from our scales was “One at a time please porky!” So as of now I’m going to try public humiliation/shame as a tool of motivation. The Victorians had their freak shows […]
Fat Lad Enjoys Another Man’s Ride*
September 6, 2009 – 11:02 pm
*Alternatively, Fat Lad: It’s not about the bike… Far far too long ago now, my beloved Elvis cracked. A nasty seatpost weld fail took it to the great bike scrapheap in the sky. In the two years we shared together we’ve done some serious hills both up and down I’ll miss you my mistress… Phew, […]
Fat Lad’s First Week
August 10, 2009 – 11:15 pm
Don’t worry this little piece of MTB heaven will not become a blow by blow account of my new vocation. No that will be for Twitter once it stops eating my SMS… So a great first week, despite just one day of disaster. I have remembered two things about bike shops since starting: You really […]