13.4 Miles on the stationary bike. 10/26/2016

13.4 miles in 45 mintues and a very sore butt.  454 calories.  So it was a good day today staring at 4 walls sweating like crazy.  Outside you don't feel the sweat as much, because your actually moving.   So their is hope for me.      

5 MILES YA! 10/25/2016

Ya it's me and I'm not happy.  Not happy at all.   I really don't understand how anyone can enjoy riding indoors.?   And Yes it's been about two week sense I been on my bike.  To be truthful it's not going to destroy my cycling ability.  Now on the other hand 3 months of not cycling would.  
As for my poor bike that need TLC,  I have to wait till some extra mulla falls out of the sky.   So as you can really see my enthusiasm for riding on the stationary bike is just pour over like rainbows and unicorns.    In reality I should not be posting 5 miles.   But what the heck.  
I'm going to have to find the love for the stationary bike some were, because right now it's the only bike I have access to.  

Over and out from the trenches of stationary bike hell.

MIND SET, FOCUS & ATTITUED

   Could some one please tell me why 3 days feels like 3 weeks of not bike riding.  Yes I am suffering, my legs are starting to whine and cry.   So let see how long this break actually last. Ha ha.    
Cycling is really all about Mind set, Focus & Attitude.
Sometimes I get up in the morning and I feel awful, sluggish and sloth like and I don't want to move.   But I know as soon as I get on the bike and get passed the 6 mile mark, all of a sudden the endorphin's really start to get to work and I feel great.  So in the morning I focus in on what I will feel later on.   And yeah sometimes I head out the door get past the 6 miles mark and I
           fell like shit, it happens.   Another day another ride. 

Cycling also entails listening to your body.  The more in tune you are with it the more you will be able to see how much further you can push your self.  When I do my rides I know exactly when by bodies says, ok, I've had enough or you didn't eat the right things.   Their is no sense pushing your self when your bodies telling you no.  And if you decide to push your self then be wary that you might hurt your self. 
 People always talk about being in tune with their bike and having all the gears and what not exactly this way
     and that way.  That is good, but part of the maintenance should also include your own health and body.
It's about fine tuning your bike, your health and your   body.   Their is no magic bullet that will allow every one to find the same health path.  Each person has to find it on their own, because our body are all that different.

 This is the way I look at it.  You have a completed puzzle in front of you. Each piece represents all the food choices you have at your disposal.  Instead of putting the pieces together were removing one piece at a time.   This is not a diet, it's called food modification.  Because we still eat what we want to.   
 Every thing we put into our mouth affect the riding a bike so much.  In the begging I never really put two and two together, but now I can't not keep from seeing it.   If you start out on a ride and don't give your self enough of the right fuel, you'll really suffer on the ride.  For example my hubby and I went to See's Candy to picked up a box of chocolate truffles for my mom's birthday.  Truffles who can resist free Truffles.  We both tried one. Just one mind you. Well we when to my mom's house bearing gifts and she would not let us get away with not trying one.  So we ended up eating 3 each and to top it off we did the (P) thing. PIZZA,  but hey it was her Birthday.    The next day those food-ish choices made Chris and I fell like crap on the bike.  Our body was like WFT did you just give me.    
Eating and cycling is really a balancing act and it's not as easy as one would think.  You have to eat enough to give your self energy to ride and when you get home make sure you keep your tank top off a bit, so your not stuffing your face when you open the refrigerator.  A long ride can turn you into a vacuum cleaner of food if your not careful.   For a two hour ride I can get by on water and 1/2 of a cliff bar and when I get home I'm not ravenous.   For very long rides over 20 miles, we will have a pasta meal with meat to give us that extra boost on the ride.   Anything under 20 we eat normally.  
Cycling is like a recipe and here is the ingredients to a good ride.

INGREDIENTS:
A Heaping cup of Mindset.
Loads of Focus
Great Attitude.
Healthy Food
1 or 2 bikes.
Heaps piles of routes to ride.
Cliff Bars With moderation.
Tire pump
1 Cycling Jersey

Method of Preparation: 
Mix all together and have a great ride.  :)   

TAKING A BREAK 10/17/2016

Well since I'm doing the Dentist thingee,  I'm just going to suck it up and take a break from riding for a while. Yes my legs are having a major temper tantrum, oh well.  I just happy I was able to ride as much as I did.  The tooth that has the crack horizontally along the bottom of the gum line is got to be pulled out.  Oh well.  Well I can look at this way, I'm not losing pounds, I'm losing grams.  LOL 
And on top of all this my poor, poor bike finally had a break down of it's own.  The back break are DOA, gone along with my front breaks.  On my last ride I forgot to mention I rode out with no front, the back breaks were still working that is untile the last 3 miles of the ride home. And when I got home and park the bike the front tire went flat.  Whew!  My bike needs some TLC soon.  As for the new bike.   If you know me I'm not a person that runs out and buy something instantly.  Yes I was excited, but I did some more rational thinking about the bike and I'm so glad I did.    Yes the bike is awesome and cool, but here is the worry.    All this hard work is a result of having a good old trusty

Diamond Back.  This is what my bike looks.   This bike is a lot heavier than the other bike I wanted. Lighter is not necessarily better. Yeah you might go faster, but let me explain.   Thing of a weight lifter, lifting weights, when he get's better he dose not move to lighter weights?  He starts lifting heaver weights.    Well if I got a lighter bike I would not be doing my legs any favors.  Especially with the hill climbing I've been doing.  No I'm not going to go with a heavy bike, but I do want to stick with my bike and may be get a new one really soon.   It's not too heavy nor too light, but it give me the work out I want to maintain my legs and keep them happy.  Like I said faster is fun, but it's not smart.   I've been toying with the idea of doing competitive bike racing  ( ok I got some ways to go, no I'm not delustional).  But if I want to be serious about it I got to ride with a slightly heavier bike.   Getting a light bike is not going to do me any good, building up my leg guns.  My hubby thinks the racing idea is a good idea.  But know my only problem to solve is finding people who will ride with me, so I can get use to riding with people.  No one want to ride with someone who dose not fit the perfect profile.   And I get my share of glares and stair's.  But my reward is the expression on their face as I leave them in the dust. Well not all of them.  LOL       Can't wait to get back on the bike.

12.12 Miles / 8 miles 10/11/2016

 Hubby did a ride with me today.  He did 8 miles and I did 12.12 miles.  So much for taking a break.  The dentist wait turned out to be for nothing. Arrggg!  They had something come up, so they reschedule me for the 13th.  Well I got another day of riding in, bring my new total to 285.73 miles of riding. 

12.12 miles

23.4 Max

13.7 Average.  Yesterdays Ave was 13.5.

52 mintues.  Yesterdays was 55.   So I was 3 mintues faster.  :)  

12.42 Miles 10/10/2016

REALLY HAPPY Because I got a lot of cycling in with a cracked tooth. 273.61 miles to be exact.  My tooth broke on  9/22/2016.  Going to the Dentist tomorrow so I'm really glad I got some good riding in and with hubby too.
Poor hubby he really went the extra mile, that route to Oroville was brutal it was like a roller coaster ride of up and down, up and down none stop.  But he wanted to do it, so I could not talk him out of it. He didn't take a ride with me today, I don't blame him.  As for me I got rash on the arrsse, not bad for the ride today, but oh boy could I feel it toward the end.  OUCH!   And I can also feel my thigh muscles toward the end.   I might need a little bit more recovery.  

12.42 miles










23.4 Max Speed

13.5 Average speed

55 minutes

52.38 miles 10/8/2016 OROVILLE

 The 52.38 mile ride to Oroville. 
Over looking Hwy 99 going toward Butte College. 

 Taking a break a Cool Creek Crossing Gas Station.

 On-Ward!   

 Bee boxes around a large pole.

 Going

 and  going.












Hey look it's Ovoville!

 And were here, tired.  The ride was not flat. Lot's of ups and downs the whole way.   Really disappointed we could not find Mug Shots Cafe, and to top it off no one we ask had heard of it.  Yet I do know it not a dead shop.  We were kind of bummed.   So we took a break in the shade of a local gas station.  

 And well we got their now we have to go home.  Table Top Mountain looming over us in the distance.

 Here we go.











Poor hubby was really tired, but he kept peddling along behind me.   Our butts hurt so much.  So sore.

 Awww  Poor guy.  But I'm proud of him he did it. 

 52.38 miles

 24.3 Max speed.

11.9 Average speed










4 hours and 21 mintues. 

12.32 miles 10/7/2016

Took a nice 12.32 ride today with hubby.  Yup I could feel the steep parts, but it ok.  I'm still alive and kicking.  I have found a new saying  'THE PAIN CAVE"  And yes I have found my pain cave. LOL   And their will be suffering and more pain tomorrow.  Were headed out to Oroville which will be a 52.2 mile round trip.  Hubby felt left out on my 71 mile crazed bike right.  So to make it up to him were going to do a long ride together.  Water? Check, Cliff bars? Check. Tools? Check.  Insanity meter?  Check.  Panic Phone? Check.     :)

71.31 miles 10/5/2016 WHAT WAS I THINKING

This is me thinking what the Bleep am I doing, but let me add I was fine at 50, starting to go insane at 60 as you can see and completely out of my mind at 70.   Why today 71.31 miles?  I really don't know why and to top it off it was hell of windy to day gust from 8 to 9 miles an hour.   I started off riding around 13 to 14 miles and hour and said to my self I'm not going to ride fast and I didn't.  When I got up to Horse Shoe Lake the first time the wind was brutal and it seemed to be coming at all directions.  I didn't do any hill climbing.

When I have talk to people and read book about people dropping like flies at 60, yeah I really understand why.  When I got to 50 my butt was on fire,  no I didn't eat any hot peppers.  My butt was so so sore then  when I got to 60 something weird happened by butt died.   At 50 my legs were fine, when I got past the 60 mark they started to wig out. Above I'm sitting on the bench and I can still feel my legs peddling, very odd feeling.   Oh yeah and I got dropped left and right, by other cyclist. They must have been thinking, look at that fat chick on a bike can't even manage 13 miles an hour.  Holy shit I was going slow toward the end 8 to 10 miles an hour.   On the brighter side the wind had died so that make peddling easier.  
I went from 1 mile to Horse shoe lake back and forth 7 times.  And no I didn't do it all at once, I did take a hour break at 30 miles and ate something.   I don't really what to kill my self, although by the look on my face I was looking crazed.

13.88 miles 10/2/2016

Great 13.88 mile ride with hubby today. :)   Look what I found hiding underneath a branch.  Wow, how could I not take a picture.  There roses and they look like their on fire.
   But I have to say we really lucked out, because we missed a really long and hard down pour with all the fixings like thunder, lighting and hail by 20 minutes.   Whew!  Double Whew!   On the way home you could feel the air temp start to drop and that wet damp feeling of rain.  I look over at Chris and said were going home.    We've got caught in the rain like that before and it's not fun, it's ice cold and it stings when it hit you and it feels like you just jump into a swimming pool of ice cubes.    Then the ride home become nothing but a sloshie wet mess of whining and crying, because no one their to pick you up.   So like I said we really lucked out.  

13.88 miles
23.4 Max
12.3 Avs
1 hour & 7 minutes.