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alligatorob
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Did 12 laps today, well maybe just 11 I kind of lost count, but most likely 12. Either way a new high, it felt good.
Winter is coming, and sooner it appears than it should. The bike ride was cold, with a blustery wind, it is supposed to get down to 20 (F, -7 C) tonight, too soon for so cold. I can ride the bike in the cold, but I know the time will come that snow will keep me off of it. Most years that would probably just be for a few days here and there, maybe 2 or 3 weeks total. We'll see when the time comes.
Thanks all for the kind words, they help!
Winter is coming, and sooner it appears than it should. The bike ride was cold, with a blustery wind, it is supposed to get down to 20 (F, -7 C) tonight, too soon for so cold. I can ride the bike in the cold, but I know the time will come that snow will keep me off of it. Most years that would probably just be for a few days here and there, maybe 2 or 3 weeks total. We'll see when the time comes.
Thanks all for the kind words, they help!
alligatorob
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Continental vs oceanic climate. I am thinking your climate is more like our Pacific Northwest. Tasmania is at about 42 degrees south, we are at 41 degrees, 30 min north, about the same, but we are not an island and a long ways inland.-7C already?It never gets that cold here!
No stationary bike, and I don't even want to suggest to my wife that we get one. I bought one about 15 years ago thinking I was going to start exercising, but didn't. She got tired of it taking up space in the house and got rid of it a few years ago. I like riding a bike because it gets you out in the air and you feel like you are accomplishing something, for me a stationary bike isn't the same. If I had one now I think I'd use it, but its a sore subject I don't want to bring up.
alligatorob
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I have ridden on snowy ground a lot, but that was ~40 years ago. When I was in College at Utah State I had no transport other than a bike for a couple of years, and its even colder with more snow there than here. I will just see what I can do when the time comes. I'd like think I know better than to take risks, we'll see if that is actually the case.
alligatorob
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It was a good day.
My bike ride felt good, after my new 12 lap high I felt like I could just keep going. We had company coming or I might have, it did feel good. With the help of folks here I fought off a pretty strong binge urge. As LaMa pointed out I am now down 57 lbs. On top of that I ate pretty well. Doesn't get much better.
Wednesday
breakfast
yogurt 80
cereal - grapenuts 110
snack
fritos 160
lunch 1 cup white bean soup 220
a big apple 130
dinner
1 1/2 cup white bean soup 330
small pear 78
crackers 24
snack
crackers 30
total calories 1,162
1162 was the year Genghis Khan was born. Genghis was the founder of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death. Of course he did this by killing a lot of people, but I guess that's how things worked back then, not that it doesn't still. Hopefully less. DNA studies have shown that 0.5% of the world's population is descended from Genghis, he did have a lot of wives, girl friends, and conquests, but when you put this in perspective of time its not that surprising. As LaMa pointed out most of us are probably descended from Lady Godiva, I'd rather think I was one of the Lady's descendants than Genghis'.
My bike ride felt good, after my new 12 lap high I felt like I could just keep going. We had company coming or I might have, it did feel good. With the help of folks here I fought off a pretty strong binge urge. As LaMa pointed out I am now down 57 lbs. On top of that I ate pretty well. Doesn't get much better.
Wednesday
breakfast
yogurt 80
cereal - grapenuts 110
snack
fritos 160
lunch 1 cup white bean soup 220
a big apple 130
dinner
1 1/2 cup white bean soup 330
small pear 78
crackers 24
snack
crackers 30
total calories 1,162
1162 was the year Genghis Khan was born. Genghis was the founder of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death. Of course he did this by killing a lot of people, but I guess that's how things worked back then, not that it doesn't still. Hopefully less. DNA studies have shown that 0.5% of the world's population is descended from Genghis, he did have a lot of wives, girl friends, and conquests, but when you put this in perspective of time its not that surprising. As LaMa pointed out most of us are probably descended from Lady Godiva, I'd rather think I was one of the Lady's descendants than Genghis'.
I see that, no question about it. But if you should come across someone who´s got one standing around idly (so many people do!) you might offer to take it off their hands
Wow! I'm seeing this as relating to the invigorating snowy air - brilliant, and yes, take care on that slippery, shifty gravel!
Lady Godiva and Genghis Khan, and their descendants... that's quite a story you've got me imagining!
alligatorob
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Just did my bike ride, after the first lap I decided to take a run at the hill. I did not make it this time, but didn't fall. When I could see that I did not have the speed I needed to be sure of making it through the steep loose gravel I stopped. Then I did 5 more laps, but my legs were hurting so I did no more. So I guess its 6 laps and a run at the hill, not real impressive, but its what I could do today. I feel ok about it.
So can we call you Amy Godiva-Khan now?
So can we call you Amy Godiva-Khan now?
overlandflyer
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how many gear ratios/ speeds does your bike have?
alligatorob
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Flyer, I think it has 12. So far I have only used the lowest gears, I am not going very fast and on my laps its all uphill where I need the low gears, or downhill where I mostly brake.
It was a good day, I ate well and feel good. It is pretty cold, it did not get much above freezing and tonight it is supposed to be very cold. Winter is coming.
Thursday
breakfast
yogurt 80
cereal - grapenuts 110
lunch
a bunch of steamed broccoli 93
apple 95
snack
crackers 60
dinner - a couple of poached eggs in a green tomato sauce made from our tomatoes that didn't have time to ripen and our rescued peppers, and a little bit of apple for sweetness. Froze several containers of it, I think that is the last of our fresh food, its all frozen from here on.
2 eggs 156
cheese 112
green tomato 42
1/8 apple 15
onions and peppers 20
snack crackers 133
total calories 916
Theodora a Roman Senator and concubine to the Pope died in 916. I didn't know there were still Roman Senators that late, but apparently the Senate survived the Roman Empire by several hundred years. Didn't know there were women Senators either. Theodora was characterized by the historian Liutprand as a "shameless whore ... [who] exercised power on the Roman citizenry like a man". However Liutprand, also bishop, is described by the Catholic Encyclopedia as being unfair to adversaries and at times partial in his judgments. So who knows the truth about Theodora, she surely must have been an interesting woman.
It was a good day, I ate well and feel good. It is pretty cold, it did not get much above freezing and tonight it is supposed to be very cold. Winter is coming.
Thursday
breakfast
yogurt 80
cereal - grapenuts 110
lunch
a bunch of steamed broccoli 93
apple 95
snack
crackers 60
dinner - a couple of poached eggs in a green tomato sauce made from our tomatoes that didn't have time to ripen and our rescued peppers, and a little bit of apple for sweetness. Froze several containers of it, I think that is the last of our fresh food, its all frozen from here on.
2 eggs 156
cheese 112
green tomato 42
1/8 apple 15
onions and peppers 20
snack crackers 133
total calories 916
Theodora a Roman Senator and concubine to the Pope died in 916. I didn't know there were still Roman Senators that late, but apparently the Senate survived the Roman Empire by several hundred years. Didn't know there were women Senators either. Theodora was characterized by the historian Liutprand as a "shameless whore ... [who] exercised power on the Roman citizenry like a man". However Liutprand, also bishop, is described by the Catholic Encyclopedia as being unfair to adversaries and at times partial in his judgments. So who knows the truth about Theodora, she surely must have been an interesting woman.
If he´d had actual dirt on her, he would most definitely have told us. So she was either too crafty to get caught or genuinely didn´t do anything wrong beyond trying to have some influence on the world around her. Well done on the hill run: variation is the spice of exercise.
Whaaaa...?
I'm not claiming either of them as ancestor! I love the sound of this meal - and the future meals to come which will have this sauce in them will be pretty good too. (Mind you - it was also a cheerful thing to see good old broccoli for lunch!
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alligatorob
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12 laps, just done. I can't say it was great, but I did it, the last lap was kind of tough.
Not quite as cold as yesterday, but it's clear summer is long gone.
Not quite as cold as yesterday, but it's clear summer is long gone.
Stick with it, Rob! It starts getting better. If you're like me, you'll eventually start noticing when you're not doing it which will draw you back to it and then that activity will reward you. It's a win-win but it takes some time. How's your seat? Hurting still?