1670.6 / ~11 / 69

One of those days where I make myself get out and ride, and am eventually glad that I did it. The seasons here (and there ARE more than two) are very notceable if you simply get outside enough to notice. Not just walking from the house to the car, and not just going out hiking somewhere every few weeks, but really getting out consistently - to the same places if possible - so you see the subtle day-by-day changes: the difference after one, two, three rain storms. The biking helps with that, and more than the exercise value and the getting thin value and the challenge-and-self-esteem value, THAT is what I REALLY like about it.

Climb-first rides are sorta "more better" on these colder days - I get reasonably warmed up before flying downhill in the sharp breeze (today, 31.5 mph coasting down Watertrough Road).

1659.5 / ~14 / 66

Today's bike ride actually almost accidentally included the fearsome Burnside Road hill. Have been doing rides somewhat less than, but similar to, this one since being laid off 11/1. And working out at the gym most weekdays and some weekend days. Not that I'm "buff" or anything, or eve *want* to be - just tired of my flab, as noted below, and pleased with the progress I've managed from just a little of this working out'n'stuff. Have been absent from here because my profile on the QuitNet seemed to receive all of my journalizing for awhile, but now "the Q," like SO many other things, has annoyed me and I have left in ... well, not a HUFF, per se, but perhaps in a SNIT (cf Austin Lounge Lizards' "The Illusion Travels by Stock Car"). So perhaps I'll continue here now.