I too have become fat. Fatter even, over the winter in that I've been driving to work instead of riding and a motorbike in winter is surprisingly hard work. Still, me and the clan are SUPPOSED to be L2B-ing it this year, so the bike awaits along with the weight bench and rower in the garage and the shiny new road bike I've owned for months and been astride only twice. I've got some time off coming - 10 days - which needs to see me get back in the saddle seriously. But do you know what I find the scariest? There are a lot of tower blocks in Birmingham and some very iffy lifts. If me and my crewmate had a resus at the top and no working lift, he/she would have two by the time we got there. Not good for me, my job and worse still for the patient - I already sweat buckets doing CPR and to me, that's just plain negligence. Perhaps AS's need to have some form of annual fitness requirement.