Clydesdales/Athenas (200+ lb / 91+ kg) - I'm not an 'every day' sort of person

I hate to admit it, but I just don't do 'every day' very well.

So damn much going down on a daily basis and I gotta roll with the punches.

Mom in the hospital, ex 'houseguest' breathing down my neck to come back and waste a day rifling thru 'her' stuff, me and Beck scrambling to go through it all and retrieve OUR stuff that she had secreted among her shabby belongings...

I cannot abide a thief.

Find a home for my niece, clear a room for my sister in law, fix a laptop for my sister, scan hundreds of photos, drive people places...

The boat cover got loose and filled up with rain, suspicious people sometimes need to be run off, everybody calling with their troubles...

It just never slows down!

The last few days I have tried to get in to see mom, but something has always seemed to crop up that needed tending.

I mean vital crap, but still.

No, it's safe to say I'm not Mr. Every Day, unless you're talking about downing a pot of coffee, never getting a moment, or wishing it would slow down.

Life really comes at you sometimes, but it sure beats the alternative!

So I figure if I'm waiting for some magical perfect time to suddenly dawn when the moments are golden and the time to do what I need to do just fall into my lap, I'm gonna grow old waiting and folks, ol uncle Roller just doesn't roll that way.

No, if you want your day, you have to seize it!

And that day is today! (um, after I wake up, that is.)

Sunday is a great day for another ride, and it's a great day to tell the rest of the worries and bothers to fornicate off, I'm going to see my mom.

And if them other buggers be there, they better play nice 'cuz I'm outta patience and they're outta time.

Mom is safe from them, her place is secured, I don't have to be Mr Nice guy anymore, and if they're there, they won't be within mom's earshot the WHOLE time....

Kicking ass IS something I do every day.

Fear not, I'll only give 'em a piece of my mind, I want to save the rest for later!

All Charged Up,

RD

That's why I ride real early (4AM). It is dark, quiet and the day has yet to present its challenges. Get out there and go before your problems awake.

That's why I ride real early (4AM). It is dark, quiet and the day has yet to present its challenges. Get out there and go before your problems awake.

+1.

Dave - you should really blog this stuff.

Dave - you should really blog this stuff.

+1

It sounds like you really need the alone time my friend. If nothing else, do it early in the AM or late at night. I typically start my rides at 10 pm due to family and work. You need to find a way to make "You" time.

I used to blog this stuff. I had a site.

I was blogging back before all the cookie cutter blog software packages made it easy.

But I found blogging to be an 'every day' type activity; and as I have stated, 'every day' is really not my forte.

I usually let it build for a few days until it FORCES its way out, sometimes 'a few days' can stretch into months when I just don't feel like writing anything.

Well, I'm up, the coffee is chugging away, the low carb/low cal 'eggy thing' is begging to be made and eaten, Beck's already down in the screen porch/garage kicking butt going through the thief's boxes of stuff... Who knows what we will find? Another silverware stash? Personal items from YET ANOTHER part of our house we didn't know she was digging through looking for stuff to steal?

I swear, if I find things from our bedroom, all her stuff goes into a roll-off dumpster TODAY.

I figure I'll coffee up, egg up, struggle into my socks, and go down there.

I'll help out a bit, take my ride, help some more, then we go see mom.

Well, that's my plan right now.

RD

You my clyde friend appear to be quite tolerant of others, if I had someone like that in my house....lets say I live way out in the country and ......

I have had an exercise routine I've been able to maintain for at least 5 years, but I'm a bit like you - I don't do every day well. My exercise is strenuous walking with my 5 dogs off leash on snowmobile trails and logging roads. I do an at least an hour, and it is serious up and down hiking. I do it all year, including all winter at night with a headlamp and on snowshoes (winter lasts almost 6 months up this far north - we are further north than Bangor Maine, Ottowa, and Montreal and still in the U.S.!) I'm just adding cycling again, because I love riding. My goal is to exercise every day, but I am satisfied with every other day. Fortunately, that is like athletic training - one hard day, one easy day. You don't really lose anything if you can get out at least every other day. As soon as the trails dry out, I'll alternate biking and walking, so I will be doing something most days. The dogs and walking come first, however, so my riding will have to be on top of that. The good news is that my years of walking have made it very easy to get back on the bike. One of my first rides was a good hour and about 6 hills, and I had no problems during or after the ride. I had a serious heart attack 16 years ago and, now almost 60, can do pretty much anything in the exercise area. I also have a family history of diabetes and have shown signs of pre-diabetes, but the walking has kept all of that well under control. My weight is about 20 pounds over healthy, but I'm working on that by eating right and upping the exercise a bit. We'll see.

As for today,

The best laid plans of mice and men oft go astray and usually feature great steaming piles of yummy melted cheese.

Here it is just after four, we are just getting the screen porch buttoned up and all that filthy cat pee smelling trash of hers back into it. There is now rhyme and reason to how it is stacked. Before it was all madness with very little method but now there is room for all the junk from what used to be her room minus a healthy amount of OUR STUFF we rescued from an ignominious fate.

Didn't get a ride in, talked with Tom a bit and we determined I have improper shoes and need bigger pedals so I'll be doing that first along with a gear system checkup, I think the brand new cables have stretched like brand new cables tend to do.

So we're off to see mom.

I might not have gotten a ride, but I still beat myself to hell shoving junk around so it's not a TOTAL wash, and seeing mom isn't up for negotiation so off we go.

I'll report on how she's doing in the other thread.

RD

Just roll with the punches. You got stuff done, you got stuff cleaned up and out of the way. Getting the 'roommate' and her stuff out of the house is undoubtedly doing you a world of good in relieving some of your stress.

East Hill

Oh yeah, definitely.

and even though I didn't wind up on Eagle I know I got a workout, I'm beat!

Tomorrow I know I'll feel lighter, move better, because I always do after being very good with my eating, and beating the hell outta myself.

So, I'll just keep trying.

RD

PROGRESS REPORT:

Fixed the flat tire on my mobility scooter so we could go shopping, got my shoes, got my pedals!

The shoes are Airwalk skater shoes and my daughter tells me they are 'kewl' with the kids these days.

yay.

I got two pair so I could just wear em all the time. Me likey.

The pedals are Primo Super Tenderizers which I found to be a very bizarre name.

It turns out 'wide' refers to the width as seen from the SIDE not the TOP which was a fact I had somehow not grasped, but managed to act like I had known all along.

I coulda gotta blue online, but all Erik's in Woodbury had was black.

It's ok. I'm gonna put my big floppy feet all over it, it don't have to be purty.

So there they sit, my shiny new pedals, my cheapo Schwinn cycle computer, cables, bits and gubbins for Becky's bike, all is in place, but unfortunately, Life intrudes yet again. More in the other thread on this.

RD

I feel for your hectic schedule, I have one also. I learned to just go... any time, period. I just plan on doing something everyday and make is happen whenever there is time. It may seem like there isn't time, but there always is. If you have time to sit in front of the computer, you have time to sit on the bike. Believe me, it's more mental than anything else. I've been there done that so just keep at it.

I feel for your hectic schedule, I have one also. I learned to just go... any time, period. I just plan on doing something everyday and make is happen whenever there is time. It may seem like there isn't time, but there always is. If you have time to sit in front of the computer, you have time to sit on the bike. Believe me, it's more mental than anything else. I've been there done that so just keep at it.

+1. I have the added challenge of a variable schedule -- I'm on the road three days a week, as in not sleeping at home. The bike goes with me.

A lot of people forget that most of the things that fill up a hectic schedule are things that you're doing for other people: work obligations, family obligations, this volunteer group, that town board meeting, et cetera. Exercise is something that you do for you. It shouldn't feel like one more harassing burden that you're trying to fit into a busy day -- it's different from all the other things that you're trying to fit into your day, it's for you. And it is true that if most people clocked the time they spent in front of a computer, or in front of the television, they'd find that they have ample time to exercise. So don't tell yourself it's impossible to fit another thing into your day. Examine everything that's already there and think about whether it's more important than exercise. If all of it is, then it is...but probably it isn't.

By the way, I would suggest you get off the low carb diet. Low carb diets are the best diet to lose weight for *sedentary* people but not for people involved in physical activities. The goal of the low carb diet is to get you into Ketosis. Ketosis is known by another name in the cycling community: Bonked. People on low carb diets are walking around in a constant state of bonkedness.

I used to blog this stuff. I had a site.

I was blogging back before all the cookie cutter blog software packages made it easy.

But I found blogging to be an 'every day' type activity; and as I have stated, 'every day' is really not my forte.

I usually let it build for a few days until it FORCES its way out, sometimes 'a few days' can stretch into months when I just don't feel like writing anything.

Well, I'm up, the coffee is chugging away, the low carb/low cal 'eggy thing' is begging to be made and eaten, Beck's already down in the screen porch/garage kicking butt going through the thief's boxes of stuff... Who knows what we will find? Another silverware stash? Personal items from YET ANOTHER part of our house we didn't know she was digging through looking for stuff to steal?

I swear, if I find things from our bedroom, all her stuff goes into a roll-off dumpster TODAY.

I figure I'll coffee up, egg up, struggle into my socks, and go down there.

I'll help out a bit, take my ride, help some more, then we go see mom.

Well, that's my plan right now.

RD
I don't know, if I had a house guest that stole from me, I would be sending them packing right smartly, with the admonition that if they ever set foot on my property again, then I would be calling the local constabulary to cart them off to crown lodgings charged with trespass and theft.

Dave - you should really blog this stuff.

+ 1

+1. I have the added challenge of a variable schedule -- I'm on the road three days a week, as in not sleeping at home. The bike goes with me.

A lot of people forget that most of the things that fill up a hectic schedule are things that you're doing for other people: work obligations, family obligations, this volunteer group, that town board meeting, et cetera. Exercise is something that you do for you. It shouldn't feel like one more harassing burden that you're trying to fit into a busy day -- it's different from all the other things that you're trying to fit into your day, it's for you. And it is true that if most people clocked the time they spent in front of a computer, or in front of the television, they'd find that they have ample time to exercise. So don't tell yourself it's impossible to fit another thing into your day. Examine everything that's already there and think about whether it's more important than exercise. If all of it is, then it is...but probably it isn't.

+1000000000!

By the way, I would suggest you get off the low carb diet. Low carb diets are the best diet to lose weight for *sedentary* people but not for people involved in physical activities. The goal of the low carb diet is to get you into Ketosis. Ketosis is known by another name in the cycling community: Bonked. People on low carb diets are walking around in a constant state of bonkedness.

He might simply be consuming some low-carb items to reduce his calorie intake, rather than following Atkins or one of its knockoffs. At 430 pounds, any port in a storm.

I hate to admit it, but I just don't do 'every day' very well.


You don't have to do it well, you just have to do it.

You don't have to do it well, you just have to do it.

Without a doubt the best statement of the day!

It sounds like you really need the alone time my friend. If nothing else, do it early in the AM or late at night. I typically start my rides at 10 pm due to family and work. You need to find a way to make "You" time.I do this during the summer. I love riding at night. Nothing more peaceful then a night ride.