Rides for overweight unfit people?

even the dunwich dynamo was relaxed it was a lot of hard work, but no keeping paces was needed you could sit and have a nap and a break when ever you needed, maybe just start by taking a detour on your commut and add a couple of mile every month?

another easts or bridges ride?

I think the general idea is that there could be a regular social ride.

I'd love to organise something but I know that I can't commit the time.

sunday morning ride?

break fast, lunch then pub?

Are there any? I suppose critical mass is about the closest as the pace would obviously be slow (although it's a demo and not really a ride as such I guess) but it would be nice to be able to go out on a ride where one doesn't need to worry about keeping up or conking out halfway there.

Look, just face it fatty, cycling is not for you. There's TV, the internet and masturbation (or all 3 combined) for your sort. Why embarrass yourself and others by launching a flabalanche in ill-chosen 'shorts' and a jersey that with your figure looks more like a lady's sports bra?
If you insist on leaving the house (and, frankly, that's your first mistake right there) then you could order a taxi. Chances are the driver is an even bigger wobble-bottom than you are and you can strike up a friendship.
It may not be 'politically correct' to 'tell it as it is' these days but facts have to be faced: your future lies beneath the welcoming folds of a Kaftan, not astride a bicycle.

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Hmmm.

break fast, second breakfast, elevensies, brunch, snacks, lunch, pub then dinner?
fify ;-)

can we have a one sunday a month spend the whole day cycling and eating ride?

Look, just face it fatty, cycling is not for you. There's TV, the internet and masturbation (or all 3 combined) for your sort. Why embarrass yourself and others by launching a flabalanche in ill-chosen 'shorts' and a jersey that with your figure looks more like a lady's sports bra?
If you insist on leaving the house (and, frankly, that's your first mistake right there) then you could order a taxi. Chances are the driver is an even bigger wobble-bottom than you are and you can strike up a friendship.
It may not be 'politically correct' to 'tell it as it is' these days but facts have to be faced: your future lies beneath the welcoming folds of a Kaftan, not astride a bicycle.

Ouch!

Great friends, right? :-)

Gimme your doughnuts. Now ride to the shops and buy me beer*.

*Repeat until you are skinny.

can we have a one sunday a month spend the whole day cycling and eating ride?

cough http://www.lfgss.com/thread73431.html#post2442270

What one needs is good long steady miles.

No, what you need is short high intensity intervals. Much more effective per unit time if losing weight is the objective. Lots of anecdote and even some evidence points to this http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=HIIT+weight+loss

Long steady rides are nice for enjoying cycling and the countryside, but for getting fit and losing lard HIIT is the way to go.

I've only been on half a dozen proper forum organised rides before and there have always been less fit and slightly larger participants and nobody has ever been left behind.

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With the right people, it'll be great, the simple act of kindness and encouragement go a long way, a very very long way.

Look, just face it fatty, cycling is not for you. There's TV, the internet and masturbation (or all 3 combined) for your sort. Why embarrass yourself and others by launching a flabalanche in ill-chosen 'shorts' and a jersey that with your figure looks more like a lady's sports bra?
If you insist on leaving the house (and, frankly, that's your first mistake right there) then you could order a taxi. Chances are the driver is an even bigger wobble-bottom than you are and you can strike up a friendship.
It may not be 'politically correct' to 'tell it as it is' these days but facts have to be faced: your future lies beneath the welcoming folds of a Kaftan, not astride a bicycle.

Will, for the thousandth time I'm not interested in your ropey old Kaftans, please respect your restraining order, I don't want to have to involve the police - again.

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With the right people, it'll be great, the simple act of kindness and encouragement go a long way, a very very long way.

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^ anything more than 20 miles would seriously be stretching it for me. Not thinking outside of London, so probably low numbers of riders. Social ride so ending up at a pub no doubt. As there doesn't seem to be something like this already (apart from compass rides but this is for new/old/whatever) how many people would be interested?

You sound like my kind of cycling partner. I hope to get back on my bike in the next few weeks. Although if you aren't as far East as me, I'll probably conk out going to meet you.

No, what you need is short high intensity intervals. Much more effective per unit time if losing weight is the objective. Lots of anecdote and even some evidence points to this http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=HIIT+weight+loss

Long steady rides are nice for enjoying cycling and the countryside, but for getting fit and losing lard HIIT is the way to go.

Doesn't high intensity just use up the muscle glycogen store?

Cookout...there needs to be a ride to a cookout,

Doesn't high intensity just use up the muscle glycogen store?

Read the research - it's a bit more complicated than just what energy source is used during the workout. Excess post-exercise oxygen consumption may be more important than the energy consumption during exercise
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_post-exercise_oxygen_consumption

I would be happy to join up for more regular group rides if this takes off.

^ anything more than 20 miles would seriously be stretching it for me.

Don't underestimate yourself. I reckon that, saving definable disability, any adult who can get on a bike and set off under their own steam could be got through a ride of 50 miles.

When I led a few rides for Southwark Cyclists, I had someone turn up for a ride thinking it would be a ten miler. By the time we'd ridden from London Bridge out to Peckham and through Clapham and on to Richmond Park he asked how far we had gone. I think we'd covered about 20 miles by then and although he was convinced he wouldn't make it all the way back Barry Mason and I convinced him to give it a go. As we approached bail out points I let him know but he decided to carry on and got all the way back at around 40-45 miles. He was so happy at having ridden the furthest he had ever been he was completely unfazed by the three miles he had left to ride home.

No doubt you'd get a few aches afterwards, but that's just your body telling you it's getting lighter and fitter. If lower weight and higher fitness aren't goals for you, just remember that the further that you can ride, the more pubs you can get to.

Nothing heroic just long and steady.

Like London-Monaco?!