I’ve been avoiding the scales for the last couple of months. My cycling dropped to near zero in December and a good part of January, November was not much better. My eating habits have been pretty good but I was still worried about my weight loss, or lack of, so I used the ‘bury my… [Read More]
Aghast!
December has arrived. Yesterday I looked at my Strava cycling data for November and was aghast! (yes, truly “aghast”! Both shocked and horrified. I don’t even want to tell you the number of rides or total miles, it is terrible. First, my defense. I traveled two full weeks in November and fought off one head… [Read More]
Sprinting from a flat
After my week long eating binge (otherwise known as “Thanksgiving week at my Mom’s”) I returned home NEEDING to put some miles on my bike. The long riding pants/bibs and jersey that I had ordered from China (long ago) had arrived and I was excited to give them a try. However; I had caught a… [Read More]
NOT Short!
All of you that think you are the only one that suffers from depression, the blues, the blaahs, laziness, lack of motivation, etc…, pay attention. Today was my day (again…). I had some errands to run early this morning in Albuquerque. My errands didn’t go so great so, while I was in the big city,… [Read More]
Mind Control
After my White Mesa ride over the weekend, I decided to take Labor Day off – no labor for me. It felt great. I committed to riding 400 miles in September on one of the popular cycling forums so I figured that I had just better shoot for 20 miles every day. However; a short… [Read More]
103 Miles!
Happy Labor Day! I’m busting at the seams today! Last week, I rode a total of one hundred and three miles!!! Call it a Century-Week ride! Ha! About the only thing I did any different than previous weeks (89 and 85 miles, respectively) was to cut out the rest days. I guess that makes sense… [Read More]
Thanks NMDOT!
Thank you State of New Mexico Department of Transportation – Highway Department! Also known as NMDOT. I try to stay off highways when I am cycling. However; that is not the easiest thing to do in this area. There is one main highway (NM 314) that is the north-south artery. Yup, I end up on… [Read More]
28 Miles
I’m sure your well aware… I’m cycling for fitness, fun, and to reclaim my life. Know what?? I am making progress!! I’m certainly having fun and getting into the ‘competition with self’ aspect. I may even ride in a local “challenge” event to see what that feels like… more on that later. The thing that… [Read More]
Meandering
This past Saturday, around mid-morning, I took a nice 22.3 mile ride (or, what I thought was 22.3 miles). It was sort of a meandering ride north up thru Los Lunas and then back south towards home with a big loop at the south end to bump up the mileage. It was 70 degrees when I… [Read More]
Fat
I’ve been reading FatCyclist.com lately. Fatty (his title) has a bunch of really great thoughts and one that I really, really like is the reason for his blog. As I understand it, he started posting his weight for accountability purposes – to himself and his readers. I think many of the problem that Fatty cites are… [Read More]