February 1st, 2008
Increasing Dord*
Swimming - Not That Bad Really
Like millions of others I fell into the “must get rid of the Xmas bloat” trap this year.
After my lowest mileage year since records began** I was more than I’m a stone overweight, my BMI was up at 27, I’d had a dose of flu that has left my asthmatic lungs with a peak flow nearer to 400 than 450 - and let’s face it 450 is hardly good.
Something had to be done.
As is the way of things the contents of the garden shed have been breeding while I’ve not been looking and there was no way I could set up the turbo-trainer in there again. Dragging it into the house for a very hot, sweaty, and very noisy session made it clear that for the sake of the the carpets and our friendly relationship with the neighbours that this wasn’t an option. So I’ve joined a gym. Not one of these expensive lifestyle gyms, but the local Council Leisure Centre. I figure I already fund it through my council tax so I might as well get some benefit. One of which is that there are less poseurs than at the lifestyle gyms ;-o
Anyway, I now have access to X-Trainers, Recumbent and upright turbo trainers, rowing machines, treadmills – which you’ll never find me on ‘cos I hate the jarring, weights and a 25 m pool. All of which is less trouble than dragging the turbo-trainer out.
Despite my claims of poor fitness an - admittedly rough estimate - VO2 max test scored me at 42.7 - above average for my age. On my first go on the rowing machine, I set the fifth best time at the gym for 5000m at an ‘I could keep this up all day’ zoned out pace - well, so far as you can zone out listening to Ministry so loud that you can add deafness to my list of faults.
So if a fat unfit fucker like me is above average just how unfit do you have to be to merely average?
After a feww weeks of getting back into the exercise mode impromptu trials in the pool - attempts at U-Boat impersonations - have shown that my dord is increasing. It’s all good.
* Dord = D or d = density. Dig out your 1934 Meriam-Webster dictionary.
** 1990
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