Thanks all, I am not sure I will keep it, but will for a while anyway. Rob, you are probably right about the mountain bike calories consumed thing, I did it again today, but may drop it. I am more focused on the calories I eat right now than on the ones I burn. How many calories per minute or hour do you think the biking would burn? I did a calculation on Google Earth that says its about a 5% slope, all up and down, in gravel. According to Google I gain about 12.9 ft per lap, so about 530 ft total up, and the same down, in the 41 laps. Not sure about the accuracy of Google at this small scale, I was guessing it was 10 ft per lap, but that was just a WAG. This app has made me more aware of protein, and I think y'all are right I need to up it a bit. Today I got more, I ate some sardines just for that reason.
Dinner was a bit unplanned, its my wife's birthday and I asked her where she wanted to go for dinner, she surprised me by saying the local soup kitchen. Its a place that serves free food to the homeless and anyone who comes in. We live in a small town without many homeless so to fill it they get a lot of poorer people and some elderly who live alone. My wife does volunteer work for them, helping collect food donations and cooking, but she had never eaten there. So we gave it a try. It was an interesting experience, and the food was better than I had expected. I did figure out how to make a donation, not paying for the food didn't feel right. There was no choice of food in the main line, you just got a plate dished up for you. So I ate half the ham, potatoes, and roll, and all of the green beans. I didn't go to the desert line. I think I did fine.
The soup kitchen is once a week in space donated by our local Eagles Club. In Utah real bars are illegal, but they have loopholes for clubs, so the Eagles is a fraternal organization doing good for the community, and maintaining a full service bar. My kind of community service club! My step son is a member and he came by to see my wife, he got us out the back door of the soup kitchen and into the bar, so the evening ended well. Its the most alcohol I have consumed in a while, but still a lot less than I used to drink. Kind of interesting to sneak out the backdoor of the soup kitchen leaving the homeless and alcoholics to get to the bar, but fun.
Saint Wulfric also known as Wulfric of Haselbury was born in 1080. In his youth he lived a relatively affluent lifestyle doing a lot of hunting. He became and priest and after a conversion with a beggar decided to move into a small cell next to the church and live a very spartan existence. People started to visit him and he became a famed miracle worker and kind of fortune teller. The only thing I can find that he seems to have done is to tell King Henry I, correctly, that he would die soon. He lived the last 29 years of his life in the small cold cell devoting much of his time to reading the Bible and praying. He also deprived himself of sleep, ate a frugal meatless diet, spent hours reciting the psalms sitting in a bath of cold water, and wearing a hair shirt. In 2009 a Wulfric Festival was apparently held in his memory with three days of music and fun. Some how I don't think Wulfric would have approved.
Why ever not?! Also: great job on the 41 laps. Maybe give your legs a rest today to be fresh for Saturday. Also also: your wife sounds wonderful.