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bensitges501.bsky.social
What started out as a quick walk turned into a very satisfying long walk.The sun was shining so it seemed daft not to continue for a longer & get those steps in whilst the weather is lovely.
Oh and I’ve lost another kg so I’m a happy boy this week !
#diet #gettingfit #menintheir50s #sitges #spain
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
lostinmilbury.bsky.social
Just back from my #GettingFit walk.
A good solid stroll around the block today - much better than yesterday's breathless blip.
Bit grey out, but it was enjoyable.
A rough muddy pathway between two wooden fences, with houses beyond.
November 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
bensitges501.bsky.social
It was a glorious day to go out walking, the flowers were in full bloom in the sunshine .
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November 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
bensitges501.bsky.social
Last night’s walk.
Not a bad start to #winterwalking this week.
I managed to do my long walk for 2 hours up steep hills & not stopping once it that 2 hours & not out of breath which was a nice fitter feeling.
The benefits of loosing 28kgs !
#gettingfit
#menintheir50s #sitges #barcelona #spain
October 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
lostinmilbury.bsky.social
Road still closed on today's #GettingFit walk. But the roadworks are much further down the main road, so at least it's quieter here at Beresford Manor.
Struggling a bit on the walk though - lots of severe upper abdominal pain, which made it hard to breathe properly.
A tree-edged road, with lots of roadworks signs and vans and trucks completely blocking both lanes.
October 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
lostinmilbury.bsky.social
Also on today’s #GettingFit walk, I passed a man walking with his dog. And the dog looked exactly like the dog from the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers - but *after* the merger with the owner. Had the beard & the eyes & the whole quizzical look. Which was a bit unnerving...
The dog-with-the-human-face from the 1978 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
October 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
lostinmilbury.bsky.social
Dodging through the roadworks again on today’s #GettingFit walk.
They’ve torn up most of the road surface towards the junction with the A38 slip roads. Still horrendously noisy & there’s a thick smell in the air of exhaust fumes & tar & general dust. Probably not good for my dodgy lungs...
A road scene, with a grass verge separating the two lanes. Traffic cones are everywhere and there s a truck with more cones on the back. There's a road scraper too and a steamroller. In the distance, across the rough, scraped road surface are more trucks.
October 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
lostinmilbury.bsky.social
Just been out for my #GettingFit walk.
The main road is closed this week, in both directions, for resurfacing work. The NOISE is horrendous. Trucks & machinery everywhere. Met a neighbour who was livid at the chaos.
Very blimmin noisy *in* my office too, with the scrapers & drills, etc.
Not fun!
A giant red ROAD CLOSED sign in the middle of the road, with some traffic cones dotted around it. Beyond is a work truck parked across the road to stop any traffic getting by. Two red road signs with a bit of red plastic haphazard fencing and some traffic cones preventing access to the road from the A38 slip road. One sign says NO THROUGH ROAD and the other says ROAD CLOSED.
October 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
lostinmilbury.bsky.social
Just popped out for my #GettingFit walk.
Halfway round, it started raining.
Which was nice.
(Actually, it *was* sort of nice.)
October 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
lostinmilbury.bsky.social
This week's been a tough one & I’m exhausted - so I’m giving myself the day off today & starting my weekend early.
There's been family stuff going on, the no-show engineer, sore back & shoulder, and I’ve only been for one #GettingFit walk. Plus, the Radio Times hasn’t been delivered yet!
Charlton Heston as Taylor in the film Planet of the Apes. He's in his rags, in his cell, soaked by a hose, shouting: "It's a madhouse!"
October 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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October 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
lostinmilbury.bsky.social
A really good #GettingFit walk today. Been struggling a bit recently, so it was great to be out & about again on such a wonderful day.
The sky is amazing. I could have just stood & gazed at it for ages...
A big beautiful tree nestled between the pathway to the new housing estate and the driveway to the farm's barns. The magnificent sky start at pale azure on the cloudier horizon, then rises to space to deep blue with occasional contrails.
October 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
lostinmilbury.bsky.social
Made it out along the path into the countryside on today’s #GettingFit walk...
...but almost didn’t make it back!
Combination of walking slightly too fast to start with, going slightly too far & the cold air on my dodgy lungs (only 11C here) meant I was really struggling on the final stretch.
A green lush grassy field, bisected by a rough dusty path. Rickety wooden fence in the foreground and on the far distant horizon, mounds of earth and some trees.
October 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
paulmichaelegan.bsky.social
This morning I weight 206.4lbs/93.6kg.

My goal for the end of 2025 is to be sub 196lbs/88.9kg. Meaning I've to lose just over 10.6lbs/4.7kg.

Adding in more climbing and a better diet should help me achieve this.

#gettingfit
#weightloss
October 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
lostinmilbury.bsky.social
A good solid #GettingFit walk today.
Saw this sign, placed for drivers coming off the A38. The main road has often been closed over the past few years because of the HS2 works, in one direction or the other & sometimes both. Inconvenient in some ways, but nicer for walking because of less traffic.
A yellow road sign which states that the road will be closed for Highways Improvements from 27/10/25 for one weeks. Yes, it says one weeks.
October 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
lostinmilbury.bsky.social
BBC Weather: 0% chance of rain

Me: walking through rain on my #GettingFit walk
October 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
bjo-rn134.bsky.social
#running #gettingfit #ftm #Transmasc
October 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
lostinmilbury.bsky.social
Back from my #GettingFit walk.
Feel a little bit better now I've burned off some of the nervous tension. Still worried about the yellowness though...

Plus: saw this house on the new estate, dressed up for Halloween.
Skeletons!
A front door with a Halloween wreath attached. Two skeletons hang either side of the door, one white, one red.
October 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
lostinmilbury.bsky.social
On today’s #GettingFit walk I ventured down the pathway alongside the HS2 works.
Not far along the path and you get completely cut off from either end, with bends in front & behind obscuring the path in both directions, like civilisation has been left behind.
Feels weird - isolated & creepy.
A winding tarmac pathway with rough stony edges. harsh metal fencing sits either side, enclosing it, isolating it. Beyond the fences there are bushes and trees to the left and barren desolate stony ground to the right. It's impossible to see any further than the next bend, only ten or so metres away.
October 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
bjo-rn134.bsky.social
TW weight loss talk
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Even though the weight on the scale is pretty much the same consistently, I have officially lost 10 CM of my waist 💪💪💪
Whoop whoop
88 > 78 💪💪💪
#runner #running #weightloss #gettingfit
September 26, 2025 at 5:52 AM
lostinmilbury.bsky.social
Also on today’s #GettingFit walk: spotted my first Halloween decoration out in the wild - a spooky wreath on a door.
No photo, because I didn’t like to just stop & snap away in case someone was watching from inside.
"Oi, Derek, some weird man's tekkin a photo of our 'ouse."
But it was there. Honest!
September 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
lostinmilbury.bsky.social
Today’s #GettingFit walk was a fairly good 15 mins - except for the sensation of a tight band across my chest, so I was struggling to breathe properly. Ah well, pushed on regardless...
Pic shows what could a proper forest from above, but is actually just a patch of ground with 2ft weeds covering it.
It could be a dense forest, as seen from above. But it's actually just a load of two-foot-high weeds covering a patch of untended ground that I often walk past.
September 25, 2025 at 10:49 AM
lostinmilbury.bsky.social
Also saw this on today’s #GettingFit walk.
There was an artilleryman nearby, taking a break from his digging. He was talking about building a brave new world. Underground!
But I had to leave this strange dreamer & walk on...
A big pile of soil and rubble and paving slabs, with a wheelbarrow behind it.
September 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
lostinmilbury.bsky.social
Just been for my #GettingFit walk: 16 mins
Felt good. Lovely weather for it too - sunny, but not too hot.
Made it to the countryside. And spotted two high-vis-jacketed people by the distant trees, presumably checking out a UFO landing site (or something similar).
An expanse of green fields, stretching to a distant tree-line, with a beautiful blue cloud-speckled sky.
September 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
lostinmilbury.bsky.social
Just been out for my #GettingFit walk.
Waited for it to warm up and it's lovely now!
The sky is amazing today...
Fluffy white clouds dotted against a beautiful blue sky, with trees below. A lamppost stretches up to touch the heavens.
September 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM