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At this point I can only walk a couple blocks, stopping to rest occasionally. My immediate goal is to be able to use the bus again. I will start a monitored exercise/rehab class soon.
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Saturday -- 37.43 km with 612 metres of climbing.
We opted to do a shortish, hilly route from home today ... shortish, because rain was threatening, and in fact, it's pouring now ... hilly, in order to get in a bit of a workout.
We didn't stop for photos, this time ... but the route was on this road ...
And this was some of the scenery ...
We opted to do a shortish, hilly route from home today ... shortish, because rain was threatening, and in fact, it's pouring now ... hilly, in order to get in a bit of a workout.
We didn't stop for photos, this time ... but the route was on this road ...
And this was some of the scenery ...
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Yesterday, I used my bike trailer and mountain bike to haul about 50 pounds of books to the local library. It felt good to donate the books and get some exercise. Today, I did my weekly grocery shopping.
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Walked my usual ~2 mile route, though don't know how many more times I'll be walking it.
My wife's work schedule is changing and looks like we'll be able to go hit the gym/pool M-Th.
My wife's work schedule is changing and looks like we'll be able to go hit the gym/pool M-Th.
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This spring I'm adding distance by about 10% each long ride. Last weeks long ride was 83. That keeps me from feeling too tired at the end. Also it was 11:00 pm, it takes me a long time to wind down enough to go to sleep after a long ride.
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Good stuff!
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We're doing something similar ... slowly but surely increasing.
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That said ... the blast of winter we've just had has put the weekend plans on hold. We're trying to figure out a Plan B.
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But seriously, I hope your winter is nothing like mine was.
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Down here it is just cold, windy, and rainy.
But we didn't get a summer (the great "summer-that-never-was" this year) and this seems early. I was hoping for a nice long moderately warm autumn. No such luck!
The Mercury (newspaper)'s gallery of photos from today ...
Snowfall across Tasmania | News Pictures and Photos | The Mercury
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Then your next ride should beat 100 miles. This is amazing progress. "Slow but steady wins the race."
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So, don't be too amazed. Although it was a low mileage winter compared to any that I can remember since 1978.
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We've had quite a dump of snow above about 300 metres of elevation. We're at about 50 metres where we live, so there's no snow here, but it is snowy where we were planning to cycle on Saturday and definitely very snowy where we were planning to hike on Sunday ... so snowy it is highly likely they've closed the track. They have definitely closed the road near the track.
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I do cross-country ski. But I had to get rid of my skis when I moved to Australia ... just couldn't get them to fit. However, I was able to bring my snowshoes.
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I went for a walk and looked for any houses for lease/sale. Got no idea of how long or far, but I don't think it was more than an hour.
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35 mile rail trail ride with my kid today. Stopped for a burger and a sundae at a quaint village diner. I paid the bill, and proceeded to walk out when an older couple approached us - the gentleman put his hand on my shoulder, slipped me a $20 bill and said "God bless you, my son." I flipped out on him, and said "First, I'm not your son, and second I don't need your charity!" Then his wife looked at my kid and back at me and said "You two are homeless, right?" Un-freaking-believable, I said in a stern voice, "Look at us lady, how many hobos have you seen wearing cycling jerseys and shorts?" No response as they moved quickly into the diner. Apparently even with the rail trail being less than 500ft away, these locals had never seen a bicyclist before. I wonder what they think of touring cyclists or backpackers. .
But hey, the ride was nice and the burger/ice cream combo was perfect on this warm May day. Guess that's all that counts in the long run.
But hey, the ride was nice and the burger/ice cream combo was perfect on this warm May day. Guess that's all that counts in the long run.
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35 mile rail trail ride with my kid today. Stopped for a burger and a sundae at a quaint village diner. I paid the bill, and proceeded to walk out when an older couple approached us - the gentleman put his hand on my shoulder, slipped me a $20 bill and said "God bless you, my son." I flipped out on him, and said "First, I'm not your son, and second I don't need your charity!" Then his wife looked at my kid and back at me and said "You two are homeless, right?" Un-freaking-believable, I said in a stern voice, "Look at us lady, how many hobos have you seen wearing cycling jerseys and shorts?" No response as they moved quickly into the diner. Apparently even with the rail trail being less than 500ft away, these locals had never seen a bicyclist before. I wonder what they think of touring cyclists or backpackers. .
But hey, the ride was nice and the burger/ice cream combo was perfect on this warm May day. Guess that's all that counts in the long run.
But hey, the ride was nice and the burger/ice cream combo was perfect on this warm May day. Guess that's all that counts in the long run.
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35 mile rail trail ride with my kid today. Stopped for a burger and a sundae at a quaint village diner. I paid the bill, and proceeded to walk out when an older couple approached us - the gentleman put his hand on my shoulder, slipped me a $20 bill and said "God bless you, my son." I flipped out on him, and said "First, I'm not your son, and second I don't need your charity!" Then his wife looked at my kid and back at me and said "You two are homeless, right?" Un-freaking-believable, I said in a stern voice, "Look at us lady, how many hobos have you seen wearing cycling jerseys and shorts?" No response as they moved quickly into the diner. Apparently even with the rail trail being less than 500ft away, these locals had never seen a bicyclist before. I wonder what they think of touring cyclists or backpackers. .
But hey, the ride was nice and the burger/ice cream combo was perfect on this warm May day. Guess that's all that counts in the long run.
But hey, the ride was nice and the burger/ice cream combo was perfect on this warm May day. Guess that's all that counts in the long run.
I think that's hilarious!
I must say, never in all my cycling days has anyone ever assumed I was homeless.
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Sunday -- 41.03 km with 764 metres of climbing ... a 1.86 ride. Lots of climbing!!
From home, we immediately climbed, and climbed ... a meandering route to the top of a lovely, fun road which mostly descends to Margate.
Then we hung a right and climbed the 9 km to Sandfly. There are a couple very short downhills and a couple small sections that are almost flattish, but mostly it is a 9 km climb. And as we got closer to the top, the temperature dropped. It was noticeably cooler up there.
We continued on up and up past Longley until we finally reached the very top of route. And then it was a long, long descent back into our suburb. A bit of that descent was gravel, but that's OK. The difficult part of the descent was that it was cold!! My hands and feet were blocks of ice by the time we got to the bottom and started climbing again on the last bit of the route to home. In fact, I was glad of the last bit of climbing because it gave me a chance to warm up a little.
The warmest temp on the ride was about 13C and it dropped to 10C by the time we finished. I think it was even cooler than that up near the top of the route, and I should have been wearing toe covers!!
We also had waves of light rain/drizzle come over plus winds gusting to about 45 km/h to add to the chill factor.
View from somewhere near the top, looking down on our suburb. We live down there somewhere. Yes, it is raining off to the right ... it was also raining on me just then too.
In our front yard ...
From home, we immediately climbed, and climbed ... a meandering route to the top of a lovely, fun road which mostly descends to Margate.
Then we hung a right and climbed the 9 km to Sandfly. There are a couple very short downhills and a couple small sections that are almost flattish, but mostly it is a 9 km climb. And as we got closer to the top, the temperature dropped. It was noticeably cooler up there.
We continued on up and up past Longley until we finally reached the very top of route. And then it was a long, long descent back into our suburb. A bit of that descent was gravel, but that's OK. The difficult part of the descent was that it was cold!! My hands and feet were blocks of ice by the time we got to the bottom and started climbing again on the last bit of the route to home. In fact, I was glad of the last bit of climbing because it gave me a chance to warm up a little.
The warmest temp on the ride was about 13C and it dropped to 10C by the time we finished. I think it was even cooler than that up near the top of the route, and I should have been wearing toe covers!!
We also had waves of light rain/drizzle come over plus winds gusting to about 45 km/h to add to the chill factor.
View from somewhere near the top, looking down on our suburb. We live down there somewhere. Yes, it is raining off to the right ... it was also raining on me just then too.
In our front yard ...
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