Showing posts with label Music video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music video. Show all posts

2015-10-14

Couldn't ignore the signs from my body

Last Monday my right foot plantar fasciitis got really painful.  I did some massage and gentle stretches.  The most effective one was icing.  

Then after Tuesday's short ride, I got eye fatigue which was blinking too much, and I couldn't open my eyes.  

So I rested.  I hope so.

 Piazzolla: O tono porteno (Autumn)


2015-09-08

Pain in my right knee and heel

I just don't know what happened to me.  Luckily my right side headache has gone.  My neck got normal.  The arms are OK, my hands are stiff like from arthritis.

But my old right knee pain came back which I got injured three years ago.  I'm limping right now.  

Today I drove our car to go grocery shopping, but I felt weird feeling, so gave the handle to him to drive back.  For the same reason I'm afraid of  riding a bicycle now until all this strange pain and uncomfortable feeling has gone away.

In addition it was extremely hot day today continuously since yesterday.  

We watched two movies.  After watching " Bicycle thief," I needed to cheer up a little bit.
Picked these music videos up from You Tube.

Le Velo
 
Tenth Avenue North Bike song

Y.N. RichKids Bike song

2015-07-17

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.

2015-07-08

Faithfully and patiently practice and practice...

In fact my favorite time to bike is in early morning when it is cool.  But we have never done that so far.  So always end up around noon or later after noon when it's cooler.

We rode on community roads; I took the folding bike again.
Distance:  10.1 miles, Average Speed:  7.7 mph, Max speed:  15.7 mph, Time:  1h 19,  459.8 cal

Starting got much better except still a little wobbly sometimes.  Stopping was still poor.

The bicycling made us happy, even though it was hot, so sweat a lot, and gusty winds blew mercilessly on the up slope.

We're looking for good bike trails or roads.

Oh, I didn't know my saddle height was higher than before when I rode last Sunday, and I was fine.  So I changed the folding bike's saddle too.  Pedaling on the slope got much easier today.

I really liked the music video on May 23rd.  I love her song too.

2015-06-30

Let's eat and go!

I felt a little hungry this morning, so we cooked.  He did sunny side up well-done, I did zucchini salad with cabbage, onion, and sliced plum.  And a cup of coffee, one slice of whole wheat bread.

I like to have something sweet, so I added Strawberry Jam to finish the half of the bread slice.


It's going to be a very hot day.  So we started biking about 11:00 am.  Today we were going to ride steadily for 45 min.  I wanted to change the song in my mind to ride with a little faster speed, so I chose this for new song.

Time, Average Speed,  Max Speed, and Distance.


When we came back.  The temperature was 93 F at noon.  Gosh, it's 108F now at 3:20 pm!
I tried keeping a steady cadence, and made sure to stop at every stop sign on the road weather a car was coming soon or not.  At the beginning I stumbled while starting again, because my left foot couldn't reach on the pedal soon enough, but later I got better.

When I came back home, I noticed that I sweated a lot.  Had a glass of water.  And made squeezed orange and cranberry juice mix to have.  I needed it!



Next time I can up my cadence a little like this.  I love the young energy!

2015-06-21

Let's clean out our brains! - 10 miles+ biking

Couldn't decide the 2nd road bike plan.  Sitting for hours made my brain blurry.  Suddenly got urge for pedaling!

Unfortunately afternoon wind started already, it was quite scary to be blown by nasty and gusty wind.  Today I wanted to bike at least 10 miles, and also wanted to try keeping cadence 70 as long as possible by changing gears when necessary.  And wanted to try pedaling slowly.

Our speedometer doesn't show cadence, so I checked this song.  It's almost 70 beats per minute.  I sang while pedaling.  When my song got slowly, I noticed that I needed to change the gear, so I did.

I rode 11 miles in an hour 13 minutes.  My brain was so happy, completely emptied out.
While I was riding, maybe old leaf dropped in between my eye glasses and my right eye, I was scared if it was an insect, but after blowing a couple times it had gone.  So it must have been a brown leaf.  

I started wondering if I should get closed sunglasses.  

After that long ride, I wanted to have corn soup so I cooked with some vegetables.  Served with sliced Camembert cheese.  

That was yummy.  Ate up left over scones.  We're heavy scone eaters!



2015-05-23

5-23-15 Practice, practice.....

We rode along the plan I made last night.  5.5 miles  Unfortunately we both forgot to time.  After lunch I was going to go again, but the fatigue came out more and more to let me down.  I felt sorry about myself.

At least we walked 2.5 miles on paved road.  Surprisingly it was easier than used to be.  My legs must have been stronger than before.  That's a good news!

We searched and searched about possible bike road to try.

We both are timid people to try new things right away, but I want to try tomorrow at least short course!

Click here to listen La Bicyclette by Yves Montand