Losing it...

I haven't been buggying or boarding for a few weeks, but I haven't been sat on my butt!

Using my fitbit and endomondo I have spent the last three weeks training and losing weight. Aiming for 15000 steps a day and burning 3000 calories. I have been running twice a week and even bought myself some decent runners...

And after three weeks I have dropped from 78 kgs to 75 kgs, I would still like to lose one more!

daily steps

running map

daily calories burned

We are now into spring so I am hoping the lake starts to dry out a bit, though we do have more rain forecast for the weekend and the beginning of next week. I am looking forwards to getting back in the buggy.

75kgs...

A while back (Link) I was trying to lose some weight - I seem to have stabilised at about 75kgs! Which I am very happy about as I now fit 32ich waist - again!

Weight - Part 7

72.5 kgs!

Different scales, but my weight seems to have stabilized around the 72-74 kgs mark.

Weight - part 6

I have cracked 74 kgs! Not exercising as much at the moment as still achy from paintballing and am getting the start of a cold...

Losing it...!

I hit a new low yesterday...

74.10 kgs - seeing as my original goal was 76 kgs I am doing very well.

I also got five new PB's at running...

• a fastest 1 km - 5m:27s
• my fastest mile - 9m:11s
• a fastest 3 miles - 29m:48s
• a fastest 5 km - 31m:07s
• Cooper (12mins) - 2050m (2.05km)

All while my daughter was at dance in Port Kennedy-

You can track my workouts in Endomondo sports tracker feel free to add me as a friend! Hopefully the new kite will arrive in the next day or two and I will be able to get some workouts with that...

Weight - new PB

A new PB - which is amazing as I haven't really done that much exercise over the last couple of weeks and I was fairly gluttonous over the weekend! That's now over 7kgs lost - and most of my pants are now really loose!

Weight - part 4

Hit my target weight of 76kgs this morning!

I'm still running, cycling and eating healthily - it would be nice to get out int the buggy soon, just need the wind to cooperate!

Kite Buggy Weights

Over the last 18 months I have often looked at envy at other buggies, the Sysmic S2, the Libre Majestic and Dragster and of course the the Hobbs Carbon kite buggy, with a dream of owning a new shiny chunk of metal.

Hobbs Carbon Fibre

 But the one thing that comes up again and again (for me) is the weight of these buggies...

Sysmic S1 -  56kgs (big foots)
Sysmic S2 - 38kgs (basic)
Libre Majestic - 54kgs
Libre Dragster - 48.3kgs
Hobbs Carbon Fibre - 50kgs (approx)

(All weights from the manufacturers websites.)

Libre Majestic

And this puts me off as surely there must be some kind of power/weight thing going on? Stainless steel seems to be a heavy material to produce a performance kite buggy from.

F1 the ultimate example of power v weight

This maybe a completely stupid question, but I work in health and am not an engineer (though I did do technical drawing at school )-

But why aren't kite buggies designed and built to be as light as possible?

Surely a buggy could be built out of aluminium (like aircraft, some performance car chassis, mountain bikes) and be built/engineered to withstand the stresses, they wouldn't corrode and would potentially weigh less?

Libre Dragster

Sysmic S1

I am guessing the weight may help in up-wind performance(?) and holding that power, but can that be designed/engineered into a light weight buggy. How much lighter is aluminium at an equivalent strength to stainless steel? Is it a cost issue, is aluminium more expensive to manufacture and work? Is the weight limited by what we bolt onto the frame ie rims, tyres etc?

I don't know!

In the mean time I will keep on in my nice light weight Peter Lynn Comp XR+ (14.3kgs basic).

Fit to fly?

Does your level of fitness or weight make a difference in a kite buggy?

I had the day off work today and my original plan was to go down to Lake Walyungup and buggy until my hearts content. Unfortunately the wind and weather (no wind and rain!) didn't co-operate!

So I set off walking and running (intermittently), my stamina is definitely increasing and my weight is dropping - so overall will this make a difference in the buggy?

Surely a lighter buggy (and pilot) will go faster under the same power than a heavier buggy? Who knows?

What I do know is, I am going to be bloomin' stiff and sore over the next couple of days, and that may affect my buggying if I get out over the weekend!

Weight - part 3

I am now aiming for 76kgs as I think this is more ideal for my height! And over the last week have started some additional exercise - mainly as I seem to have more energy!

It's all paying off...

Weight - Part II

Back in mid November I posted that I had dropped below 80kgs. Well after the Christmas blip, a holiday in January and relies from the UK staying I gradually got that back up to around 82kgs!

Well thanks to my wife and her inspiration - today I finally managed to get below 78Kgs!

Now I just need to buy a new kite to celebrate!

Weight!

It's not often I will post twice in one day but I had to show off -  I now weigh under 80kgs!

Over the last couple of weeks I have stopped eating between meals and cut down on my portion size. And at times it has been a struggle, but at one point I was tipping the scales at 82+kgs...

The goal is to get down to around 78.5kgs and I think I can do it in another couple of weeks!

The only problem is I don't think my harness will go tight enough!