My stomach has never bulged out after meals. Finally the habit faded away. I still need to shave off the extra fat here and there from my body somehow.
The weight slightly went down, but it's not big change yet. So I can't be pleased yet.
But pedaling was a little easier than before.
Recent Breakfast: Found low sodium vegetable juice! I take 8 fl.oz of this juice.
Plus two oranges from our garden squeezed to mix together.
And finish with small cup of coffee and 2 oz vanilla ice cream.
I've never thought that ice cream would be a meal, but I'm full enough and I can work to finish my morning chores.
It's a sunny and bright gorgeous day on Sunday. I feel like going somewhere to ride, but not.
Just went riding on our community roads.
"Oh?! Is that Kanzan cherry tree blossom?" I stopped my bike, and looked so enviously.😲
Our small Kanzan tree doesn't have any flowers blooming yet.😣
Anyway we finished a 60 minute ride at relatively slow speed. Because while I was riding, the back of my right calf got slightly crampy. When I tried to sit on a chair at home, I noticed that my neck got really stiff. Now I'm sitting in front of computer, my feet and ankles started getting achy.
But we did it today. That's what counts.
Maybe the temperature got too warm or the wind was blowing too much pushing feathery seeds flying in the air? Or my itchy eyes and nose dragged me down?
Today's 60 minute ride was awfully exhausting. Afterwards pains came out all over my body. Shoulders, arms, thighs and back.... 😭
Riding in late afternoon is not good for us.
So many things I wanted to finish today, and riding was at the end.
Morning ride might be better, I wonder.😔
Warm weather is nice, but hay fever season is not welcome!😱
Luckily it will rain tomorrow. Hope all the pollen will be washed away.
As usual we started cycling on our residential road, shortly after he told me that his saddle was moving right and left. So he stopped and tightened the quick release clamp.
When we finished over 60 minutes ride, he noticed the edge of his pedal was broken. He fixed a different part of the pedal edge long time ago, now another part is broken too.
I said, "Your bicycle was the almost same price as mine, but yours is so crummy!"😁
Luckily a mail from REI has a discount coupon, I hope he will find what he needs for his bicycle to repair tomorrow.😏
Finally we loaded our bikes in a car and drove up to Petaluma. We have been so tired lately, and our weights are heavy. So I decided to have just a cup of green tea for breakfast and finished an hour and half music session with my friends in the morning.
So first we went to a cafe, "Two Niner Diner," near the Petaluma Municipal Airport, because we wanted to try their fish and chips for our lunch.
The ambiance was cool, we like it.
Because I didn't want to bother the group having lunch in the middle of the cafe, so I took this photo only, but there are a whole bunch of interesting displays hanging.
And we were so happy to have this nice and crispy Fish and Chips here.
This is the best! Even the french fries were delicious, we were amazed.
We parked our car at Wiseman Airport park in Petaluma, and took out our bicycles. Then we started riding.
The weather was perfect, we enjoyed riding so much that I forgot to take any picture. The blue sky had a beautiful pattern of clouds spreading out, and birds flying and the airplanes flying.
I was worried about crossing E Washington St, but while we were walking on the cross walk, drivers were kindly waiting and waved back friendly to us.
We rode for over an hour which was pretty good, I regret not to have pushed ourselves to ride a little more to 10 miles. We only did 8.7 miles.
But we both really got tired when we came back home. I took a short nap, Mr.Whp is still sleeping. My knees' pain got eased, but my small back, shoulders and arms are still sore.
We should go to bed early today. 😟😟
It was cloudy this morning, and rain started in no time. Shucks!
Then around Noon, luckily the blue sky and sunlight came out!
So we rode our riding course on residential roads.
Somebody has a beautifully blooming Magnolia.
And there is a blooming plum tree on the other side.
Because everybody got the same thought, there were quite a number of cars on the road. Some drivers seemed annoyed at us. One of them sped up to squeeze into the corner in front of me😱, and the other driver was passing by very close to me threateningly.😱
I got mad about it in my mind, and started chasing the car full speed😡. Luckily grandmother cyclist couldn't speed up too fast, so I was OK. Max. speed 19.1mph. But I shouldn't have gotten mad and done such a thing, I thought later😨.
On the way we got some dripping rain for a very short time, but we came back dry from over 60 minutes ride.
Exhausted as usual, but happy we were.
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.
So we paid Amazon to watch the movie the first time.
We liked it very much. I got interested in what they ate during the long distance biking and also, of course, their mental attitudes.
Watching somebody riding better than us was fun and fascinating.
The end of the film said,
This silent voice hypnotized me.
Next morning was unexpectedly sunny, so we got excited and went out after 30 minutes TV exercise warm up.
We enjoyed flowers, tree flowers, happy singing birds, and clean air refreshed by the last rain. Everything was perfect...
until sudden pouring rain!!!
And it was getting harder and harder. Just 15 minutes to reach my goal of a 60 minute ride.
So we continued riding miserably, especially me without wearing a jacket, because it was nice and sunny before.
Then, finally we reached 60 minutes, and came back!!
Feels GOOD. Thank goodness.
It has been raining all night since yesterday. Wet everywhere, and it was nice and sunny in the morning. Finished a little gardening. Afternoon it was still sunny, so we went biking.
Suddenly the cold wind started blowing away, pedaling on the up slope was very heavy.
Two days ago I set my goal to bike for 60 minutes, but disappointingly our energy faded away in 47 minutes.
We've been wondering about this especially this year. I think that we got the same answer as it said.
Is Cycling past 70 different than past 50?
So let's think about next: How we can continue riding for fun? Without hurting too much. With some accomplishment.
After long continuous raining days, we had 7 nice sunny days. So we could start biking which was not easy, then gradually got strength back. When we didn't feel like riding, we walked. I still have trouble with small back pain after walking for miles, which I need to walk regularly in the future.
Next goal for me will be riding for 60 minutes, and walking for 60 minutes. Somehow it's hard right now. Maybe need to rest in the middle? Or try stretching time a minute at a time?
Unfortunately more rainy days will come again. In that case I should think about another exercise?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
We got a sunny beautiful Christmas Eve morning, so we went riding bicycles. The sunlight was warm, but the air was freezing cold so much that my ears started hurting. I went back home to put a crochet hat under my helmet.
The hat covered my ears nicely for a while, then my body was getting hotter and hotter. Finally I had to take off the hat and the vest too. Too cold I can't ride, and too hot I can't ride either.
The other day when I played our bike ride recording, I noticed that my right foot pointed out strangely while I was riding. So I tried putting my right food straight, and my right knee inward which helps very well to keep my right foot straight. Then I realized that way I could ride up slope easier and straight almost.
Then I wondered maybe that bad habit was the reason I couldn't start faster, because I couldn't go ahead smoothly by waving sideways too much wasting the power.
When I tried to position my right foot inward slightly to start pedaling, I could start much faster than before.
That just a small wrongness affects so much is very amazing. A bad habit shouldn't be ignored so easily, and it's better to fix or adjust as much as possible.
Then we could ride more than 10 miles today!
Brrr.. Freezing!
This morning is colder than yesterday. Even plants got frost! 30F....
Yesterday after 15 minutes stretch we rode in 49F, because the sun was warm. We finished happily 8.5 miles. 3 hours later we both got muscle pain in our legs. Because we forgot exercise afterwards?! or we did over our limit???
I noticed that we are always complaining about pain and fatigue lately, and that made us more depressed.
So I got an idea to avoid that kind of bad "chi" all over our house, we will sing this song instead of whining and complaining about the pain.
I did two exercises before and after breakfast. Then, we went out in windy rain for a walk with umbrella and jacket with hood. The wind was blowing horizontally from front to back, so our jacket got soaking wet, but we had a nice walk with sweat.
The creek under the road got lots of rain streaming away.
A few hours after lunch I noticed the rain had stopped, and the road dried quite a bit.
OK, Sky gave us a chance to ride!
Just in case we put helmet caps on to prepare for any rain, but we luckily came back dry.
About 10 minutes before finishing, the bottom of my toes almost started to cramp, maybe the temperature was getting cold outside, but luckily I could manage to avoid a cramp.
When we got home, we both felt very good. We had some nice aerobic exercise. I hope we will continue to regain our strength.
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".
It was freezing cold this morning. The temperature didn't go up so much even in the day time.
Even though we did some exercise to warm up before riding, our energy diminished so soon because of the cold temperature.
My diet kept failing, because of stress? Anyway the fact made more stress. I'm in a bad circle.
I have to think about a new strategy.....
