Does size matter?

Evening all,

Today's question: What does cycling the length of the country do to a man's body? There could be a lot of answers, some of which I am not looking forward to. What I want to know is, will it turn me from a Slim Jim to a Chunky Hunk? Or will I go from Slim Jim to Slimmer Jim? According to one of those great measuring machines in leisure centres and gyms I clock in at 11st13lb (76.2kg) and 6' 4.6" (195cm). This gives me a BMI of 20, firmly bottom of the ideal range. Ideal all the same though. The word was chosen carefully by professionals i'll have you know. However, if I lose any weight on the trip I will be officially underweight. There is plenty of excuse to pack away puddings wherever possible.

At current, my fat index is a mere 6.7%. The average is 20.8% and 10.2% is described as excellent. I'll let you decide on what that makes me, but one can infer I would be in a "better than excellent" box.

Further vital statistics to watch;

Left upper arm 11 1/4"

Right upper arm 11 1/2"

Waist 31 5/8"

Chest 37 3/8"

Right thigh 22"

Left Thigh 22"

Boffins estimate that I will be burning around 8.50 calories a per minute of cycling. Roughly speaking that is 20 minutes to burn off each pint I sampled the night before. I suspect that this will have an impact on at least one of the statistics above. We will see at the end whether I am right.

Thanks again to everyone that has donated thus far. The total has shot up recently and looks to keep going. We are only a couple of days from Land's End now and the support has been fantastic.