What did you do TODAY for your fitness?

poor iggy said:
hows mom & baby...does you wife have alot of time before she has to go back to work?
didja take out the new bike?
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Mom and baby are doing swell. Had the first pediatrician visit yesterday and he said she is a strong, healthy baby. Thanks.

Yes, took the Niner on its third voyage but I still havent gotten a good amount of time in the saddle with it yet. All short trips.
 
walter said:
Mom and baby are doing swell. Had the first pediatrician visit yesterday and he said she is a strong, healthy baby.
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Excellent! Very happy to hear about healthy moms and babies.

Today I did a 30 mile solo ride, a real nice change. Alone or with a good friend or three, is where it's best.

And the biggie...... I JOINED A GYM!! Wahoo! It's one of the things I've needed to do for me and I think this place is a good fit. The only drawback, no bike rack. I suggested they get one as I brought my bike into the lobby and leaned it against the wall while I did the gym tour and signed up. I'd really like to bike there since it's less than five miles from my house and they'll probably tire of me dragging it in with me. Seriously, if you're promoting fitness, a bike rack is a simple and cheap way to encourage it.

Tomorrow is their opening day and my session #1 with a personal trainer. This will be the beginning of structuring of my winter program and I'm psyched. I want to make big permanent changes this season and this is one of the two things I haven't given a serious try. The other thing starts Monday.
 
I sat in session #1 with personal trainer at the gym. He asks if I have any med. restrictions, injuries, used weights before, etc. Then he asks if I participate in any sports. I tell him I'm an avid cyclist. He looks up from his sheet and says, "Oh yeah? Me too!" I ask him what he rides and he says "Uhm, ah, gee, I can't remember." I ask what kind of riding he does, road or mountain, FS or hardtail, he says "Mountain, but I just sold my bike, I figure I'm working in a gym, I don't really need it." 😱

This is the guy that's supposed to help sculpt a regiment that will make me bury the rest of you? I guess y'all can go back to sleep now. Maybe he'll teach me how to sit on a couch and flip channels with a remote... I haven't done that in a couple years now... not sure if my thumb is up for it.

Sigh.

Session 2 and 3 tomorrow, let's see if he can redeem himself or if they put a real trainer on the task.
 
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Better opinion today. Though I won't look to the 'Personal Trainer' for all my cycling advice he did have a good knowledge of the muscle groups needed for the sport and the complimentary areas I wanted to work. I do too, so between us it's a good start and the boy does seem to know his nautilus.

It's not necessarily a road block, but I certainly hit a curb in the gym... that shoulder I never got PT for(besides the stuff I did myself) after I separated it last winter... it isn't in perfect shape. It was an eye opener to see how weak my dominant arm was when asked to do something out of my daily routine. I really had forgotten that I had seriously injured it. I thought I was back to normal since I can lift a couple gallons of milk into the grocery cart with one hand and lift my bike onto my rack, but this was a whole other thing. You guys facing PT... do it. You'll be better off than if you ignore it like I did.

The torn meniscus in my right knee is a drag. It seriously limits what I can do with anything that puts weight on that knee. Oh well, I still don't want to get cut open so I'll have to deal with it. The exercises that didn't involve my knee or shoulder were really appreciated. It was a relief to feel a good pain and strain as opposed to the injury pain.

So with all the set-ups I did, I need to stay with weights that are comfortable with the weak areas and let them get up to speed before asking for more of myself. I'm all about doing this thing smart and have no interest in putting myself out of commission by grunting over too much weight. All of it makes this guy okay for now since I will be going a whole lot less aggressively than I had expected. It will be better for me in the long run too.
 
Out to JH on the MTB today. Boy did it dry out and get winter looking out there. Was cool to see the airport with the leaves down. Hard to find the trail at times, but good news is: that the leaves are starting to pack down. Looks like it may stay dry this weekend, so enjoy! 🙂
 

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back from the dead magical mystery tour

so i got the flu. that sucked balls. i had a 102.x temp for five straight days. during that time both my girls got hit, my wife got sick as well as my 9 month old son. the boy got it on par with me and ended up going to the ER twice. so, now that my week from hell is "officially" over...

...today i was finally feeling ok enough to get back on the bike so i took out the $20 SS/CX raleigh for a spin though the black river and up into chester. i forgot how much fun this bike it to ride. the thing is just a steam roller with the 35 c panaracer cinder x's i'm running.

i checked out the new "trail" that chester constructed that sits right off of 24 and it's more like, well, i dunno. a dirt road i guess is a good way to describe it. i thought it may have some implications in the grander 'forbidden donut' loop but it really doesn't. it is, however, great for me as no i can connect the black river to dirt in under two miles. spit out though that little section onto furnace rd and connect down s. four bridges to the columbia trail. there's some new parcel of land that the town of chester just bought in there that warrants some exploring as it may take a good two miles of road off this loop.

so that's that. i'm waiting on a decision from "corporate" on some vacation that i've got pending which may promt me to start a new blog. i'm due anyway.
 
got out and rode 'mooch for about an hour today. this was an odd ride for me on a number of levels. first of all i haven't been on my mtb since JORBAfest. secondly, it's only the second time i've been on a bike at all since i've been sick. third, i do not know mooch very well. and finally, i haven't ridden there since i had my FS tricycle-wheeled trek.

lots to ponder but i'm tired of driving PAST mooch to get to KVSP. the waterloo lot is 12 minutes door to door. no mas. i will learn mooch. i will ride mooch. i will love mooch.

so for whatever reason i decided to ride the white trail. i don't know why. it wasn't until i got back that i remember someone, maybe brett, telling me riding that way was stupid. i've never ridden it ever but i figured what the hell. now i know why. riding that trail counter clock-wise is just painful. i missed my turn and before i realized it i was way far away from where i wanted to be. so, i turned around and rode back the way i came. but hey, i know i don't want to ride white that way again so consider that BFJ's mooch knowledge knugget #1.

tomorrow is a world of options. i'm waiting to see if option #1, wall-e, gets back to me. if that falls though i'll have to come up with a second option.
 
Thursday 10:30 am
Took the day off work to have the car serviced.
Did some house chores to keep the wife happy than got out on the road bike to head to the great swamp. This is basically my 30 mile default loop.
Thoughts:hmmm:
I've been mixing in road rides and mtb rides alot this year and have come to the belief that road rides are so much more civilized than hitting the mountain trails. When I get on the road bike I put my but on the seat my hands on the hoods, click in and just pedal. There is some subtle positioning on the bike but otherwise its relatively easy to keep a cadence going and get into a rhythm. Once in a rhythm on the road I begin to daydream and ponder life.
Mtbing I do very little daydreaming or pondering, the ride seems so in the moment...throwning my front wheel over logs, rocks, riding through streams, feeling the rush as I try to go as fast as I can on a tight twisty single track. There is such a contrast in road/mountain and this is what keeps it fresh.
 
so true !!

poor iggy said:
Thursday 10:30 am
Took the day off work to have the car serviced.
Did some house chores to keep the wife happy than got out on the road bike to head to the great swamp. This is basically my 30 mile default loop.
Thoughts:hmmm:
I've been mixing in road rides and mtb rides alot this year and have come to the belief that road rides are so much more civilized than hitting the mountain trails. When I get on the road bike I put my but on the seat my hands on the hoods, click in and just pedal. There is some subtle positioning on the bike but otherwise its relatively easy to keep a cadence going and get into a rhythm. Once in a rhythm on the road I begin to daydream and ponder life.
Mtbing I do very little daydreaming or pondering, the ride seems so in the moment...throwning my front wheel over logs, rocks, riding through streams, feeling the rush as I try to go as fast as I can on a tight twisty single track. There is such a contrast in road/mountain and this is what keeps it fresh.
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MTB is like going to war .
Road riding is more like meditation (in condition you pick low traffic routs ...)
 
six mile tour

after many months of potentially wanting to maybe ride six mile, i was finally able to do so today! hurray! big ups and mad props to wall-e for giving me the grand tour.

what a fun place that is! the twisties are all they are billed to be and i can totally see now why the folks that ride there regularly tear singletrack apart. we did about 13 miles but with all the turning it felt like a lot more. i'm way impressed with the TM efforts that jdog, wobble and the rest of the crew down there are putting in. tons of cool bridges, logs rollers and random stuff all over. towards the end we went through the 'six mile swamp' and walt noted that there is a sketchy bridge that he usually walks and cleans his bike in the process. well, we come around the corner and walt's like "WTF is that?! that bridge wasn't here two days ago!" apparently the bridge elves saw a need and filled it. kudos.

so, the money shot of all this? i slipped off a bridge. yes, that bridge, the one that is so heavily discussed in the six mile section on this very site. i have no clue what happened. wet conditions didn't help nor did hitting that thing a little hotter than i wanted, but one minute i was on it, the next minute i was in pain. net-net: sore, bruised ankle, sore shoulder, bruised up thigh, brusied up stomach and one destroyed bell. ding. ding.
 
Good times today Jake!!! Jake was working in the southern hemisphere this morning and Mrs. Walter was gracious enough to give me another pass(third in four days) so we hooked up. We had a good time, we could have squeezed out some more mileage but due to our time window we omitted the twisty pines on the way back in and then we took the by pass.

Luckily we got out on time, even with a tire issue on my part and Jakes minor set back, we even beat the heavy rain.

Glad you enjoyed, sorry about your bell😀
 
6 miles at Skyline testing out new MagicShine lights. Suggestion: don't go do Skyline if it's your 1st time riding with lights ever, you're doing it alone, everything is covered with leaves, and you've had no sleep. It was a fun time nonetheless.
 
my ankle has been sore for days so bear with me. i'll get back in the woods soon.

sat: 35 miles on the road; brutally slow with the wind
sun: a quick 25, again on the road. wind not so bad on this one.
today: 40 on the road. i rode up to timmy's house and up past mahlon. i wished timmy was still WFH b/c i really had to pee.

off tomorrow then off to kvsp on weds for some trail recon. i had planned on only riding 'mooch for the rest of the year but after norm's close encounter of the rocky kind, i realized that i haven't spent enough time on my mtb lately to go out there by myself. i'll get all f'd up. so i'll work back into it and hopefully in the next couple weeks i'll get my mad skillz back.
 
got out to KVSP today to both test my ankle and do some wiki-recon on the trails. all in all the trails are in good shape and i honey'd in at a bit over ten miles for the ride. great day to be out and about.
 
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