Thursday, September 30, 2010

Not cycling realy


but hiking. REAL hiking, up and over rock faces and down steep grades. 400 foot elevation changes in a few hundred feet. All with a baby in a back pack. We did about 4 and a half miles and I can't remember hiking any thing like this since I was in the military. Not that it was particularly hard: it was Skyline trail at the Blue Hills. The computer says that I should have burned about 1600 calories but my bathroom scale says that I gained a pound and a half. I have GOT to get back on the bike!

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Hiking just ain't cutting it.

Over the last month I have taken to Geocaching and therefore, hiking. About half of that is done with The Bruce in a baby-backpack. I looked it up and at my weight + baby load I am burning about 1200 calories in an hour and a half. Not bad. So how come I'm not loosing weight? I imagine that there is some muscle development going on there and I imagine that the pace just isn't aerobic enough. Those are my thoughts any way. Whatever the reason, it's just not working out the way that I had hoped.

So, I broke the bike out and peddled a little bit here and there on the various bikes in the stable. I even hooked up The Bruce's little trailer and pulled him for a little ride till the back tire exploded! It scared the heck out of my but he never even woke up! I was terrified that a piece of flying rubber would take his eye out but he was fine.

So, today's 5 mile ride out and back to try to find The Geocache That I Will Never Find was the longest in recent history. My riding buddy crashed out prety good in a wash out. He was following me at a prety good pace (like 13MPH) when I hit the thing. I kinda panicked a little and thought that I was going to bite it but I guess that I managed to keep my weight OFF OF the fork and get the wheel far enough up the other side of the bank that I cleared the ditch so smoothly that He didn't even realize that I went over something. He did none of the things that I did and bought it big time. He was carrying my GPS at the time and, sure enough, the screen got cracked. That was it though, other than my buddy getting banged up a little bit.