Just keep going.

Anything brings pain into my arms, fingers, small back, neck, knees, shins, and ankles, but I decided to ignore it, anyway for a while.
Just keep doing whatever we can.

Any foods make us fat, but I decided not to worry about.
Just keep thinking whatever good to eat for us. 
 

The cold weather made me fat?!!

Nature gave us wet and cold weather.  Our Gas and Electric bill got sky high.  We are not rich enough not to worry about the bill.

In our house we keep it a little warmer than outside, sometimes the same as outside.  Wearing too many layers of clothes is not athletic either.

We can't feel that our life is promising to be bright in the future either.  The stress gets higher, the crazy appetite gets higher.
  
Not only my weight but also Mr. WhP's weight is getting heavier and heavier.

No wonder we lost strength.

But we did ride anyway as much as we could yesterday.

We need to go back to a healthier diet soon.

 

Warm air makes us happy.

Finally we had almost 60 F temperature today.  When we started riding, it was 56 F, but the sun was so warm that we were anxious to go out.

When we heard that we rode over 5 miles from cyclometer, I was going to go back home to finish, but the warm weather made me greedy to ride more.  So we did.

My old injured right knee started hurt soon, and my whole body was exhausted when I got home.

But we rode 8.3 miles today and felt good.  Although I'm a little scared about tomorrow. 

What happened in those 5 days?

Finally the sun and blue sky came out around noon today.  The weather information on my smartphone said that the temperature will go up with the peak at 4 pm.  So we waited for the warmer time to ride, then around 2:40 pm it was getting cooler and more clouds increasing in the sky.  So we went out for a ride at 3pm.

Our bodies are stiffer than ever.  When our bodies finally got warmed up, the temperature was going down.
After we stopped to drink water, I had a hard time to cross over the frame, because my leg got tired.

I really need to do resistance training.

Rode between sprinkles

Last night the rain was scary it sounded like it would never stop.  This morning several roads were closed because of flooding.
Even though blue sky came out around noon, the sprinkles continued.

But we managed to ride 4 miles today.  The sprinkle in Winter is scary for us.  We had one the other day which continued more than we guessed, and we really got cold from that.  So we stopped immediately today when we felt it coming.

Potholes were everywhere on the road.  The heavy rain damaged so much.  If I can't see the bottom of the hole, I will never ride through.

Miserable rain, rain, again....

As if yesterday's dry day was just my dream, it is miserably cold and wet today.  
I took a photo of the Daphne in our garden to cheer up. 

They are all buds yet, it will be nice when the weather changes and there are flowers on the shrub. 

I guess I'd better go on with my sorting and dumping the junk in our house.

The more often avoiding to go out, the harder going out.

Last Sunday it was raining heavily.  Last Monday morning it was so freezing that I canceled our Monday morning walk with my friend, but she went on anyway.  Gosh, she has a strong mind.
So we were almost going to be lazy again today, but we pushed ourselves to ride.  The air was cold, but it was dry luckily.

The cold temperature made my body stiff and I had a hard time to step over my bike frame.  So I took off my trunk, and carried my backpack with water bottle, because I wanted to swing my leg over the back to get ready.

Just riding over 5 miles was fun enough for us, but when we got back home, legs, arms, everywhere was in pain.  It seems that's normal for us  nowadays.  Maybe hurting afterwards is better than hurting from doing nothing.
 
 

Rain, over rain, and rain...

Yesterday morning we had a nice break, so I walked with my friend.  She told me how high the creek water came up a day before in the late afternoon when she saw it.  And next morning we saw lowered water together.

But an hour later when I and Mr. WhP  rode bikes and stopped to see the creek water, it had increased quite a bit. 

Then, it started raining through the night.  And next day today, it has been raining all day without break.

We did stretch and other TV exercise, but our body, especially legs, knees, and feet are still sore from yesterday's walking and biking.
But we were happy that we could ride a little bit yesterday.
And so far our neighborhood is OK from water damage.

I pray for the windy rain passing through without causing too much damage and drew and colored a new year Animal, Rooster.

 
 

Our mouth is more active than our body?!

Because it's raining.  I feel depressed.
Found the delicious sounding recipe for Cinnamon rolls.  So I asked him to bake it.
While I was playing piano, the Cinnamon Rolls were baked.

I made glaze, and splashed it on them.

Too much mouth activities made me feel guilty, so we both got out to walk late in the afternoon.  The sky was dark, looked like it was holding more rain. Even though it was warmer than yesterday, it would soon get dark, so we hurried to finish walking.
I'm afraid that we ate more than we burned.  
But we had not a sign of sickness, so it's OK.  It's better to be fat than sick.
 

Freezing?!!

It was freezing cold this morning.  32F

The temperature didn't go up so much, but we decided to walk after a little stretching exercise.  Because the delayed storm might come soon from tomorrow, we heard on TV.
I dressed warm and put on my favorite knitted cap which my dear friend gave me.  

But I had a hard time to breath, because of polluted air by burning fire places or cold air, I'm not sure which.  I got tired and started having pain in my small back, so the walking lasted less than 30 minutes;  I didn't want to push myself.  

30 minutes exercise after walking eased my pain.  When we checked the temperature this afternoon, it was over 50 F, so we went out for bicycling.  That was quite nice riding in the afternoon until the air got colder and colder, and my left calf started getting crampy. 

All TV channels are warning of the storm coming with high winds and rain tomorrow.  

First ride on Schwinn

Luckily the rain was stopped this morning, but another storm would come soon, I've heard.  So we went grocery shopping and then bicycling a little.

I decided to ride our Schwinn folder today to feel something harder.  It was sure hard to pedal, because it was so heavy especially on the up slope.  But I could ride 6 miles as usual in spite of the cold air.  The seat I just couldn't lift as high as my regular bike, because it's not secure if the seat is too high for me.  Safety is my priority.

When we were exercising afterwards, we felt pain everywhere which must have stiffened by coldness.

Now it's raining... 

 

The first Rainbow day!

It was a cloudy morning yesterday, but I was happy to start  walking/talking with my friend.  Then we saw the first rainbow in the sky.

We were enjoying the rainbow for a while.  Unfortunately the sky got darker and darker, soon it started raining.  I was soaked with rain quite a bit the first time in this year.

Luckily the rain stopped in the afternoon.  Mr. Whp and I were riding some miles,  we didn't want to miss the chance because the weather man said we will have a rainy week soon.

When we went for our first shopping by car,  I was surprised to see the rainbow again. 

To be able to see rainbow twice in a day  made me  very happy.
I got this almost perfect shot too.

 
Next day today it's raining all day.  My right shoulder started to hurt.  Somehow pulling the handlebar to ride on the up slope seems to have caused pain in my right shoulder afterwards.
At least I can have a rest for a couple of days.  It turns out to work well I hope.

The 1st sunrise, the 1st walk, and the first bike

It was 38 F (3.3 C), chilly..., but as I decided last night, I went out to see the sunrise.  Unfortunately there were a lot of clouds, so I waited for a while to see the sunlight.  Hope it will be a great year.

Then, we walked 2.7 miles and came back home in 50 minutes.

When I checked the temperature it was over 60 F in the afternoon, so we went riding.  We should have started earlier, so we could have ridden more, but we didn't.  When the temperature went down so quickly, I couldn't breath well, and that made my pedaling harder.  We didn't push ourselves too much and finished a 6 mile ride.

What first will be next?  Feels exciting.