'Take it easy' is the key of success

I didn't mean the success is real success.  I mean just a good result.
After we did a 60 minute Ride and Walk on one day after another day, we both really got tired with pain, so we couldn't ride or walk yesterday.  We were going to do just light gardening, but our garden was a handful to care for after heavy rain.  We ended up getting another pain from the gardening.  Oh, my goodness.
Luckily the exercise before going to bed which I planned to do was a good idea to help us sleep well.

Unfortunately our fatigue was dragging us down today, but the garden was waiting for us, so we worked again, and got tired again.

But!  But I didn't give up again.  Maybe overeating brings us our  energy at least.  We went out for a ride.
The temperature was chilly, but we continued with whining.

An unusual thing happened.  One resident who lives along our riding course called us to stop, because he wanted to introduce himself.
We did, then he admired us always biking together, not husband riding away to abandon his wife.  Yeah, if he did, I will be somewhere without telling him, no, I didn't tell it to him.
He showed their beautiful garden and introduced his wife who pruned their fruit trees beautifully.
That was nice to meet new people who are living near by.
And we had a nice break.
 
When we left their house, it was colder outside, but I insisted to ride and finish over 60 minutes again.  
My forehead got icy cold as if I ate shaved ice.
But we rode 63 minutes.
Surprisingly the pain from the walking eased up. 

No bicycling for 8 days!!

I still don't know what happened to my body.  After last bicycling in November, I got a terrible pain under my right shoulder blade, and pain spread out in my whole right arm.  After struggling with this annoying deep pain for 8 days, finally the pain eased down this morning.  So we rode together for a while after lunch.

The air was soooo cold.  I was afraid a cramp in my calf might be happening or bad arm pain might be starting, but none came.  The pre-ride exercise we had must have protected us well.

We both felt we are getting older recently.  So we decided to be careful especially in cold winter.  

Every new movement caused pain or uncomfortable stiffness recently.  Finally one nasty terrible persistent pain calmed down, so I will be careful. 

I should re-start painting to finish my "Memory of Bend".

 
 

After admitting who I was ...

Because pushing myself never worked well any more.  I just accepted who I was.  I'm old, not 40s, not even 50s.
Just quit pushing myself.

Since Mr. Whp. complains about his front thigh pain, we both started riding very slow.  And for up slope, I used very low gear which I've never used before.  I couldn't use it before, but I can nowadays.  So it worked very well for saving my energy.

When I came back and checked my record, I was so surprised.  Average Speed was slower than before of course, but I could ride over 10 miles without any pain and fatigue!

What a surprise!! 

OK.  The key is:  I should know who I am.

Fatigue is everywhere on our back

It was not severe, but every time when we sit on the chairs, our backs were silently tired.  I was afraid  that our bodies might get stiff if we don't move.

So we just rode for a half hour this morning.  This was very easy ride and not much slope included.  Accidentally I rode with fast pedaling a little, then my left thigh started stringy pain, so I immediately loosened.
Just before reached our house, both my forearms got numb-ish pain.  And now I felt pain in both heels when I walk.  It shows my body's fatigue.  OK.  I wonder if this short ride was the right thing to do or not??  I can't feel my back fatigue, but pains on my arms and heels.  I guess I'd better quit this training like go-on ride soon.  Because the result haven't shown any progress even shown regression a little bit I guess.  
Well, what's next?  How can I put good cycling in my life?

Time, distance, average Spd, and Max Spd.

Our purpose for continuing biking

Keep our health, Fun activity, Trip to ride for fun.
No hurry to improve anything.
Never push ourselves especially when we feel not good.

Training camp was finished so we should socialize more or do some other stuff.

The time was limited today, so we did short biking.  That was a nice recovery ride for us.

Time, Average Speed, Max Speed, and Distance

Gravel road, uneven surface...

I wondered if it's possible for me to ride in the future?  So far I only have ridden basically flat paved road, because I had no confidence any other way.

Suddenly I noticed that we have a path with gravels in our backyard garden.  So I tried riding my bicycle there.  Oh, my God! There was no way I can do it at beginning, then a little bit, and hopeless....

Then I moved some big tiles in the garden to make some uneven brown grassy area for riding.  Gosh, it was too hard.  It's narrow not like trails or roads, so my attention scattered all over the place, and I just couldn't ride long enough, then I got exhausted.

Well, I didn't want to try my first mountain bike try out in public place.  So I thought that I could practice this way a little bit.

Well, I fell sideways once today, but wasn't injured at all.  Maybe I will try another time. It 's nice to have a garden we made by ourselves,  not so much loss even if I damage it.  But my balance sense is quite hopeless.

We rode familiar roads late in the afternoon with heavy wind to try another 15 miles.  I did but I got toes cramping again.  And my left toes are still numbish. I need to find some exercise for my feet.

Distance, Average Speed, Max Speed, and Time.

 

Not pushing, but continuing, is the key?

Hot weather really made my body weird. From morning?!  I was tired, but I felt I wanted to ride even a little.
It turned out 10 min. warm up was not enough. Next 10 min. work out was hard and brought pain.  I gave up to keep speed around 8 mph.  Changing gear, and not push any more.  About 50 min. after I started riding, and just after stop and start action, my left toes got cramped.  Hurts!

I was going to ride very lightly and finish within 10 min.   But after that, I felt much better and pain was forgotten.  So I continued until over 1 hour 45 min.
Average speed: 8.5 mph, Max speed: 18.9 mph, and Distance: 15.3 miles!

Pre-Bike trip day

We didn't want to miss painting at the art club, so we postponed our bike trip to tomorrow.  Since we didn't bike yesterday at all, we felt dull in our bodies so we rode in our neighborhood.  Very slowly and practiced stop and start too.

Distance:  10.1miles, Max speed:  15.9 mph, 
Average speed:  7.4mph,  Time:  1h21min

Tomorrow we will ride 11.4 miles where we've never ridden before.  That's exciting and thrilling.  We should make sure to sleep well.

Deep fatigue but rode anyway

Our fatigue and pain here and there couldn't go away over night.  We both were groaning this morning.

We knew that we can't get rid of this kind of pain so soon even with resting, so we decided to bike just light one.  We started very slowly and easily today.  We just couldn't ride fast as usual at beginning, but later we felt better.  My brain got this music so I sang with la-la-la to ride.

We finished over 7 miles, that was a surprise.  
Time: 59 min., Average Speed 7.5 mph, Distance:  7.45 miles, Max speed didn't get right. n/a

Distance is the same as yesterday, but that slope bonanza 7.44 miles felt like more than twice as much distance ride for us.

We did recorded Classical Stretch, our pain got much eased and better now.  We need another good sleep.