One BIKE Open Sleigh? A one bike open sleigh? I’m not sure whether I’d rather be the pedaler or the passenger! Now that it’s Christmas season, perhaps Santa would like to take that idea a step or eight farther; and have a sleigh pulled by eight cyclists instead of eight reindeer. Let me think about that one. How much training […]
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It\’s rain-day today; not SUNday. I\’m glad I did my long ride yesterday! By 10 am it was raining quite hard; and if I had done the ride today, I would have had a long, wet slog to get back home. On top of that, the wind at 10 am was 13 mph — and
I\’m glad I rode today! A day or two ago the long-range forecast said that rain chances for today were 50%; and for tomorrow, 90%! I\’m not crazy about a flip-of-the-coin chance of rain; but it sure beats all-but-certain rain. So I set out this morning for my weekly long ride. Not two miles out,
Post-holiday, namely the day after Thanksgiving, has some folks thinking Black Friday. Not I! I can do without that madness; and with COVID-19 still running rampant, I don\’t want to be in crowds. Instead of hitting a big store, I hitched up the trailer and headed for the salvage store. First I rooted through the
Rampage A rampage is what my sweet tooth has been up to! Tuesday I fell off the wagon rather badly; and yesterday I went overboard BIG time with cookies and candy. I don’t know why this happens. Maybe I’m trying to be too stringent, and that can easily backfire. Possibly my body sensed the dropping barometric
I\’m in clover! Or I was yesterday, at any rate. Yes, I found a four-leaf clover! Otherwise, I\’m not in clover. Nowhere near it. I\’m not poor, but I\’m definitely not well-off! If I were truly rich, would I ride the same old bicycle year after year? My road bike is over seven and a
Something fishy is going on. Or is it? Yesterday morning I concocted a new snack. I wanted something different, and had some tempeh that I had to use up. I also have most of a box of hummus. See here for the recipe. I\’ve got to admit that there wasn\’t fish in it at all.
Flatten those hills! Learn how to climb! I find this comparison interesting. Seven percent gradient, did he say? I wish I knew the gradient of those humps on the MRT. There are several about 17 miles from here, and they seem steep to me! Fortunately they\’re very short climbs. Getting back to the comparison in
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Did my training plans backfire on me? Yesterday I rode Tour de Cure 2020; the 62-mile route. Comparing my 2020 performance with that of two years ago, it looks like I\’ve backslid! The two routes are comparable in length, with this year\’s being only 0.6 miles longer; yet I was much slower this time! A
What\’d I do in the last day or two prior to Tour de Cure? Was I carbo-loading, or not? For months now I\’ve been watching the carbs, working to limit them to 150-200 grams per day. The objective is to get my A1c levels back down below the pre-diabetes range. At the same time, I\’ve