Road Biking

So what do you think the correlation is between you running outside in cold weather and being sick? Or in your case not getting better? I biked 12.3 miles on Tuesday. Monday was Christmas and the kids didn’t take naps so I just played with them a bunch. Of course Monday was sunshiny, clear, and beautiful. Tuesday was chilly and blustery. I biked Tuesday. Took it pretty easy mhr did reach 177 bpm with an ahr of 145 bpm. Did lots of flat stuff with one good climb up Hillsborough over by the old townhouse. That got the thighs cooking a bit. It was fun to get up to 35 mph on the street coming back home. What wasn’t fun was almost getting hit by a car! It wasn’t that close a call, but some old man did a left turn right in front of me as if I wasn’t even there. I understand not being seen, but this guy was looking straight at me.

Mostly I think I’ll be sticking to trails round town. A friend of mine in the ward got hit by a car back in the fall. He’s been trying PT, but it’s looking like the doctors going to start cutting next.

I’m going to need to get on the phone with you and chat. The bike computer is not wireless and I’m not real interested in wiring up a bike computer just for indoor use. I’m seriously considering rollers, but I’ve got to figure out how hard it’s going to be to bike on them. Nashbar does have something you can add to the rollers that holds the front of your bike steady. The only thing is that w/o a bike computer all I’ll ever know about how far I’m going is my cadence; decisions, decisions.

Still haven’t swum in a while. I’m missing it a bunch. With a baby getting here in 15 days I don’t see it happening soon. I wonder how much your new baby is going to throw off your schedule.