MY EBIKE VIDEO DIARIES (PLAYLIST)

GoPro Volt Metro Ebike

What a pleasant day for a bike ride, Chidswell Lane, Gawthorpe, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK

Where am I? 

I just love big skies!

All we need now is some heat.

Public footpath over a field, yep there is actually a caravan club CL site in Dewsbury! It's actually pretty quaint. 

1, The Paddock, official CL site of the caravan club




Time for a brew!

You don't have to go far from home to find a really nice spot. Quiet country lane. 

I absolutely love going off on my own, I prefer it, you have nobody to answer to, its liberating.  People just stress me out, time on your own is very good.

Power station near Selby, very zoomed in.

Farmer doing his stuff

Woolly jumpers

Happy Days, cycling during the week, everyone is at work, or school, I tend to venture out mid morning, usually you have everywhere to yourself ;)

Gawthorpe water tower

DOWN THE CANAL WITH LOCAL HEROES

What a lovely day to get out, just a few miles down the Calder and Hebble canal, lovely wildlife, my partner snapped a grey pied wagtail. I also bumped into Abid Farid and his friend on their daily walk around the locality. 

Abid is a asian make up artist and owner of Abzolute Artistry and amateur photographer. 

Just a week before, he and his friend pulled a female bike rider out of the canal, her laces got caught in her chain; only her head could be seen bobbing up and down in the water.  Abids friend waded into the freezing cold water, the bike had dragged her and her bike to the bottom of the canal. Luckily Abid and his friend was there, as she could have drown, we had a chat on the towpath, they recalled her being very pale, shocked and very cold, they told me that even in this warm weather the water was freezing cold. Any later and they could have been dealing with a fatality. The lady didn't want any further assistance and wanted to remain anonymous.

On the day I bumped into Abid, he told me later that just after seeing me, further up the towpath he had rescued a baby bird, 

Keeping warm in a hoodie

we are not sure what it was, but he took it to a vets in Wakefield. Huddersfield Examiner got hold of his little story after he posted it on a local group on Facebook, the other story wasn't mentioned. See news report here 

One of his friends commented " You have a habit of coming across distressed beings whether its in human form or animal. You're a very kind human being "  Abid has caused a bit of a stir on facebook and he received many comments about his and his friends latest rescues.

Abid

My partner photographed a female pied wagtail. 

We are stuck!! Haha, maneuvering a narrowboat can't be easy. 

MID SUMMER WORKOUT

MORNING

Cup of tea.

A killer 7 min ripped abs Workout with Tamra D. I usually try to do this on an empty stomach as I sometimes get reflux.


BREAKFAST

2 large dessert spoons of porridge
Tsp mixed seeds
Spoonful of mixed nuts
2 dried prunes
1 large dried date
Spoonful of blueberries.

20 mins - 45 light weights training session (at home) USA Pro (2 Kilo) also muscle stretching (Yoga) 

'High intensity bursts' cycle ops (super magneto pro)  session on my road bike. (3 times a week). 3 - 30 second bursts of 'heart attack'  including warm up and warm down.

Including rides out on the bikes, either my road bike (hand built GTR series 3 carbon fibre) or ebike on our Sustrans greenway. My ebike is a Volt metro, its great for a relaxing ride out or you could cycle 40k easily switch the electric to PAS 1 for a great workout!

At the portrait bench on the greenway

IF YOU DON'T GO OUT YOU DON'T SEE THINGS

Today was too good an opportunity to miss, as we have been having some terrible weather, also I am due for a cold and chest infection from my other half. Tomorrow is my 49th birthday and I am feeling brilliant.  I have been doing mindfulness, I have organised my life, I am doing abs training and most of all enjoying getting out and about whenever I can.  In my title "If you don't go out, you don't seee things'  My mother hates me going off on my own, but I find it liberating, if you thought something bad is going to happen every time you leave the house, well, you wouldn't leave the house.  

Everyone is speeding around like loonies in their cars, oh what you miss when you are sat in a car.  I like to go as slow as possible, a saunter, still putting effort into cycling too.  You can hear the birds sing, the newly hatched great tit chicks tweeting in dry stone walls, newly formed waterfalls emerging from nowhere after all the rain; its amazing when you go at a slower pace you conserve energy, I managed to get my ebike ( no electric ) up some hefty hills and with a heavy lithium battery on it can be challenging.  There were loads of people out today, dog walkers, ramblers cyclists, one old lady wearing all the bright luminous green and orange jacket, helmet, gloves, you couldn't miss her.  I always take my camera out wherever I go.. a tornado jet flew over the greenway, then I saw a buzzard circling.  I went and sat in a little local garden area and had a breather.  Back home I spotted Most Haunted events.. then back up the greenway the way I had come. Home for a nice cuppa tea and a dog biscuit. For my spaniel of course. 

Call this a cycle lane ... Wakefield council.. tut..

Sunday cycling in Yorkshire

Making the most of the sunny weather today, I don't think it's going to last. At last I am on the road bike. I need a bit more fitness, some miles in the legs. After doing the sit down stand up fitness test, maybe I need something extra, I am as flexible as a steel rod lol. 

I went down the greenway today, Sustrans route 699. Lots of folks about having fun. Including me. 

Just pulled over to admire the view, the greenway isn't muddy btw, its tarmac, this is just a path.  A man was throwing a stick to a gorgeous Springer Spaniel, made me feel so guilty, leaving my Spaniel at home. Poor bugger. 

Panoramic shot