After a bit of a false start, it seems spring has arrived here and so has the cycling. The false start was my own fault – I hoped that the warmer temperatures were here a bit too early. Never hurts to hope, I suppose… In any case, they are here now. This past week I rode 65 miles in four rides. It felt great!
I am hoping to participate in the New Mexico Endurance Series (NMES) San Ysidro Dirty Century ride this coming weekend. For me, the short course of 58 miles would be a real victory. Of course, a variety of things have to come together to make this happen but I am trying to get there!! My typical riding routes are mostly paved roads. In an effort to get my body prepared for sixty miles of dirt and gravel road (double track), I changed things up and road gravel roads all week. So, all those miles are on dirt and gravel. I am more worried about my behind/hands/wrists wearing out on a sixty mile ride than I am my legs. The need to ride dirt forced me to find some new routes/roads and this certainly worked to my advantage. I have added a couple of really pretty routes to my list of options. Ok, they WILL be really pretty when things green up! 🙂
Weight, you ask??
Well, tough question. If I were a pessimist, I could be very negative. An optimist could find reasons to be excited. I am a bit in between. I made it thru the winter months without any weight gain – that is a huge positive. Basically stayed at 240 pounds. The negative is that I watched what I ate very carefully during these months to LOSE and it didn’t happen. Now that I’ve been riding again, I am really hoping the loss starts again. I am currently sitting at 237 and, still, closely watching my consumption. I don’t eat much these days – it’s kinda weird. Maybe that is the problem. I spent a couple weeks considering the NutriSystem approach but finally decided that my problem is really about exercise, or the lack of it, and not so much what I am eating. I dunno, I’m no expert.
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