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pandora_parrotToday's the third day in a row that I've ridden my bike to work.
Tuesday: ~5 miles to work, then given a ride to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Wednesday: ~5 miles to work, ~2 miles to Planet Granite, 1 mile to Coco's, ~8 miles back to home: Total: ~16 miles. (Actual odometer read 15.3 miles)
Today: ~5 miles to work. I plan to bike to downtown Mountain View to meet up withelphie and then head home from there. It's mostly the same route I take to work, so I'm guessing maybe another 6 or 7 miles today when it is all said and done. I should have about ~11-12 miles on my bike today.
What's amazing me is the ease with which I am handling this. Could it really be the case that the reason that I wasn't active for most of my life was primarily due to asthma? And now that I have an inhaler, I can handle this stuff without a problem? My hiking and biking have improved so much now that I can actually *breathe* when doing it. I did an ~8 mile hike in the desert with only foot pain to worry about (I really need to get my Vibram Five Finger shoes!). The ~8 mile bike ride home from CoCo's was a bit long, but what bothered me on that was the cold of the night, not the ride itself. Although when I got in, I was completely exhausted.
What's really annoying, though, is that I don't appear to be losing any weight yet. I'm not eating too terribly much, but looking through what I ate yesterday, it did come out to around 2000 calories. I should probably get back to the calorie counting and reduce it down to 1700 or so. I *did* try 1500 or 1300 for a few days, but to keep up with that is quite challenging. I really need to write an iphone app to help me track this info, or just find one that already exists.
Anyways... good biking! I'm going to keep trying to avoid using my car for the next few weeks. See how much I can accomplish without the car. I know I'll need the car on Saturday when I go fly model airplanes withdana_grrl, but we shall see what other events I *really* need it for.
Tuesday: ~5 miles to work, then given a ride to
parmonster's place.Wednesday: ~5 miles to work, ~2 miles to Planet Granite, 1 mile to Coco's, ~8 miles back to home: Total: ~16 miles. (Actual odometer read 15.3 miles)
Today: ~5 miles to work. I plan to bike to downtown Mountain View to meet up with
elphie and then head home from there. It's mostly the same route I take to work, so I'm guessing maybe another 6 or 7 miles today when it is all said and done. I should have about ~11-12 miles on my bike today.What's amazing me is the ease with which I am handling this. Could it really be the case that the reason that I wasn't active for most of my life was primarily due to asthma? And now that I have an inhaler, I can handle this stuff without a problem? My hiking and biking have improved so much now that I can actually *breathe* when doing it. I did an ~8 mile hike in the desert with only foot pain to worry about (I really need to get my Vibram Five Finger shoes!). The ~8 mile bike ride home from CoCo's was a bit long, but what bothered me on that was the cold of the night, not the ride itself. Although when I got in, I was completely exhausted.
What's really annoying, though, is that I don't appear to be losing any weight yet. I'm not eating too terribly much, but looking through what I ate yesterday, it did come out to around 2000 calories. I should probably get back to the calorie counting and reduce it down to 1700 or so. I *did* try 1500 or 1300 for a few days, but to keep up with that is quite challenging. I really need to write an iphone app to help me track this info, or just find one that already exists.
Anyways... good biking! I'm going to keep trying to avoid using my car for the next few weeks. See how much I can accomplish without the car. I know I'll need the car on Saturday when I go fly model airplanes with
dana_grrl, but we shall see what other events I *really* need it for.
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Date: 2010-05-14 04:13 am (UTC)This is a primarily generalized statement based on my own observed weight change as opposed to very high levels of exercise. If I remember right, when I began working at the airport I weighed about 200. my weight went up to 220 over the next month or two, then started falling pretty rapidly. I wound up at about 165 about a year and a bit later.
You might want to, if you are doing a fairly large amount of exercise a day, switch to a protein heavy diet to let your body build muscles more readily.
If you just need a quick way to burn off a fair amount of calories, I'd suggest swimming! Mostly because I love it and know it can turn you into an inhuman eating machine incapable of gaining any fat despite being hungry all the time to the point of extreme ramen munching at all ours of the night. To the point that I became nearly negatively bouyant. This will, however, not do much to loose you weight in the global sense, as you will get a lot of fairly efficient lean muscle mass everywhere.
....Um. Mew. I ramble. Anyhow, um. In any case, did you know your cadence (spin of pedals) should be around 90 or higher?
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Date: 2010-05-14 11:34 pm (UTC)It'd be nice if I had a tub I could calibrate for how much it holds then do a full immerse at it's highest point then check to see how much didn't slosh out, but eh. I'm weird. ^.^;