Hike and Bike

Enjoyed seashore hike with good old friends. The weather was perfect with a nice breeze.  

Because of the low tide, the hiking was so comfortable for our feet.  
2 days before walking 2.2 miles in our neighborhood worked very well as preparation for this hike today.

We felt so good.  We even had energy to ride over 5 miles afterwards at night.
 

Feel bad about myself

Skipped riding again..  Unlike gardening, I just can't ride when I feel tired or week.  Of course if I lose my balance, it will be a disaster on the road.  I don't want to get hurt.

On the other hand, I might have felt better if I rode.   Frustrating....

Hope I will be able to get to sleep soon tonight.

Oh, before going to bed, at least I will have some exercise.  Yes, at least...

Testing DBPower in the neighborhood.

Felt tired and uncomfortable, but we went out for a ride.  This is the time to test the camera.  
He set it on his helmet at right angle, so it came out well.  But on my helmet the camera took only the sky most of the time. agrrr...

I took some pictures of my computer screen playing DB Power camera record.

It was quite hot, so there were not so many cars or walking people on the street.

But  a squirrel suddenly came out to across the street, as we were passing by.

A bicyclist was crossing too.

Temptation toy

Hate to bring up the same subject, but allergy symptoms have occupied our bodies this year.  We're still struggling not only physically but also mentally.  And mentally I lost.  I depressed down to h....

Worse thing is the same kind of terrible pain came back as I got on my right knee 4 years ago after I fell from my brand new bicycle and the handle dropped on my knee.   Recently I found the right leg is 1/4'' shorter than left one.  So I put sponge in my shoe to cover the sole of my right foot.  Seems better.

Only sticky allergy invasion made my hearing ability worse. agrrrr....

Luckily, a deliverer came earlier than we expected.  We purchased a bicycle camera which is cheaper than GoPro.

DBpower  sj4000

First we put it on the handlebar to try out.  That sent too much vibration to the screen.  

So we put it on the helmet.  

Luckily two camera holders for helmets were included, so we could switch it between us.  That's very handy.  We tried using it in our neighborhood riding.  The video came out very nice.

We just need to look above our heads ahead of time so as not to crash the tree branch hanging.

I hope my plugged ears will clear out soon and my physical strength will come back, so I can go do some trail riding again.

One year passed

A year ago we started trail riding together even though I was a very shaky and unstable beginner.  We could barely finish for about 1.5 miles.

Now I got experienced quite a bid.  No problem to start and to stop. But I still have a little fear of people and riding straight in limited space.  

Recently we both got terrible allergies and lost strength physically.  We are tired afterwards from any movement right now. 

We didn't plan so much, but we slept 11 hours this morning.  It was cloudy so that we didn't feel like going anywhere.  We finished a short ride together.

Tomorrow we want to do some longer cycling at least.  
Need to make a plan which is very hard recently.  I need higher desire or next goal.

Bicycling life enhances joy

Yesterday it was raining and cool.  When I noticed it stopped, we changed our clothes and rushed to the garage.  But just before we pushed out our bikes, a little rain started again.  Maybe it will stop, we were optimistic to keep pedaling.  Wrong!  More and more rain was pouring.  We finished in 7 minutes. Sigh.....

Hours later we put back on dried our clothes and pedaled out.  As usual our bodies were stiff and heavy at beginning, but we had a fun time later to complete 10 miles riding.

When we got home back, and checked the mail box.  A card from one of my good old friends was delivered.

Such a splendid beauty of bicycle card I've never seen before. 

Felt happy very much.  If I didn't start riding last year, I'd  never have known this happiness.

 

Allergy symptoms drag us down.

April riding records:
April:  Trails + roads riding on Novara J.
Apr.01, 15.00 mi., ave.  8.7 mph, max. 16.9 mph,  1:42:13

Residential road on Novara J.
Apr.02, 13.22 mi., ave.10.1 mph, max. 18.2 mph,  1:17:48
Apr.04,    7.26 mi., ave.  9.8 mph, max. 17.8 mph,  0:44:18
Apr.05, 16.43 mi., ave.  9.5 mph, max. 17.3 mph,  1:43:10
Apr.07, 14.06 mi., ave.  9.4 mph, max. 18.8 mph,  1:29:21
Apr.08,   5.31 mi., ave.  7.4 mph, max. 16.6 mph,  0:42:34

Apr.10,   9.00 mi., ave.  8.6 mph, max. 18.4 mph,  1:02:21
Apr.12,   5.44 mi., ave.  8.3 mph, max. 17.4 mph,  0:39:05
Apr.13,  15.11mi., ave.  9.1 mph, max. 20.3 mph,  1:38:52

Trails + roads on Novara J.
Apr.15,  11.78 mi., ave. 6.5 mph, max. 15.2 mph,  1:46:44

Residential road on Novara J.
Apr.17,  10.37 mi., ave. 9.6 mph, max. 16.9 mph,  1:04:25
Apr.19,  10.10 mi., ave. 9.0 mph, max. 18.4 mph,  1:06:53
Apr.21,    9.36 mi., ave. 8.7 mph, max. 18.2 mph,  1:03:48
Apr.22,    5.01 mi., ave. 8.1 mph, max. 17.4 mph,  0:37:00
Apr.23,  10.47 mi., ave. 8.1 mph, max. 18.4 mph,  1:16:43

Apr.25,  10.22 mi., ave. 9.1 mph, max. 16.9 mph,  1:07:12
Apr.26,    3.51 mi., ave. 7.5 mph, max. 18.8 mph,  0:27:56
Apr.27,    8.55 mi., ave. 8.4 mph, max. 19.8 mph,  1:00:55
Apr.28,    6.86 mi., ave. 8.6 mph, max. 18.9 mph,  0:47:43


April Monthly Total: 187.06 miles, 21 hours 19 minutes 01
 
Runny nose came out like heavy rain on our body.  Sneezing all day.  Ear ringing started.  Low and high sounds.  Then, ear tube got plugged.  We felt sick.

Usually we can get rid of it by sleeping extra.  This time didn't work.  8 hours, 10 hours...  We got small back pains.

Finally gave up, and push ourselves a little bit to ride last Monday.  We could ride over 10 miles!  But we got really tired...
But we rode next day again.

So we had to rest today.  We just did gardening a little bit.

Hope we will be better more tomorrow.