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September 2025 Stats

Posted by Richard on 30 September 2025
Posted in: Cycling, Diary, Fitness, FulGaz, Home Gym, JRNY, Pain Cave, polytrauma, ROUVY, Running, Syndicated, virtual cycling, Walking, Weight. Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Leave a Comment

I mentioned earlier this month that I was finally taking the plunge and trying out ROUVY, so I have, and I’ve been enjoying some of the group rides with a group calling themselves the Crazy Catz who are on both FulGaz and ROUVY and Strava as well.

Running though has taken a back seat after some more consultations and an MRI: I need a partial knee replacement but I’ve decided to grin and bear it for a bit and try some injections later this year to out a plaster on it…

I’ve been doing my usual  John Hallas’ Weekly Challenges on FulGaz as well – it’s still my platform of choice – but the ROUVY rides aren’t as bad as I feared they would be.

So, here are September’s stats:

September 2025 Statistics

September 2025 Statistics

Activities: 30Distance: 569.27 kmTime: 17:54:35Calories: 18,110

Turning to my weight, at the end of August I weighed 88.9kg and at the end of September I weighed 89.4kg, which is up by 0.5kg, coincidentally the same gain as I had over my last weigh-in a couple of days ago.

Body fat percentage was up from 25.7% to 26.8%. I put that down to all the banana bread Mrs Me is making just now, that she can’t eat due to her bodybuilding competitions (did I mention Alison is awesome?).

January 2025 Stats

Posted by Richard on 31 January 2025
Posted in: Cycling, Diary, Fitness, Gear, Home Gym, indoor cycling, Pain Cave, Running, virtual cycling, Walking, Weight. Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , . Leave a Comment

Back on it in January with my usual spike in weight whilst trying to cope with shorter, darker, drearier days and more work, work, work with deadlines to hit.

So it was back to a combination of running on the treadmill with JRNY adaptive workouts, and FulGaz, where they opened up their Grand Tour 2025 on January 11th, as well as my usual  John Hallas’ Weekly Challenges.

And there was the bad news – that originally I marked as spam – that FulGaz had now been acquired by ROUVY, an inferior app.  This was following FulGaz’s earlier acquisition by the Ironman group who then decided they didn’t want to continue with FulGaz and slashed and burned them; the story of the disposal and sale to ROUVY is appalling, as detailed over on DC Rainmaker’s blog entry:

Ironman Sells FulGaz to Rouvy, and Plenty More

I’ve been too busy with the Grand Tour to give ROUVY a try or even see if the Schwinn will connect to it, but from what I’ve seen so far, it’s not going to be a happy transition from FulGaz to ROUVY when the time comes and they stop supporting the FulGaz app.  ROUVY seems to be the worst of both worlds: some “Augmented Reality” in the way of rider avatars like Zwift coupled with lower resolution real life videos, some of which appear to have been filmed from cars, rather than from an actual bike rider.

We shall see.

Here are January’s stats (obviously assisted with fact that there are well over 90 days in January each year…):

January 2025 Statistics

January 2025 Statistics

Activities: 32 Distance: 485.69 km Time: 22:40:57 Calories:  22,814

Turning to my weight, at the end of December I weighed 88.1kg and at the end of January I weighed 86.8kg, which is down by 1.3kg!  Body fat percentage was up from 25.2% to 25.5% which is weird.