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Relentless Forward Motion
Apr. 21st, 2020 09:21 am Last night I got out on the bike and decided that instead of doing this on the road, I'd peddle around in the yard. So I started by remembering the gliding I'd done Friday, and found a slope where I could do that fairly easily. The garage has a concrete parking pad, about ten feet square, then there is more of a slope as the land angles down towards a small stand of trees and the side yard. We have weird drainage here and Fox has spent the last couple of years shoving dirt around with the tractor so that now, when we have flooding rains and hurricanes, we don't have a lot of standing water around the house. It all drains towards the Wayback. Anyway.
After gliding several times I started trying to peddle, fell a few times, then Fox said I should try pushing down on the pedal with my right foot while gliding with the left, long story short it was the suggestion I needed to finally actually ride the bike. I rode around the yard several times and avoided hitting things, remembered to use my brake, and I feel pretty pleased with the progress I made. I didn't expect to be peddling and basically ... cycling so soon. Today I'm going to try this on the road. Now that I understand how and can mostly do it (still have some false starts and wobbles) I'd like to get better at it. I was worried that I would never really learn, and we'd have spent all that money for nothing on a bike that would rot in the garage. Then next time we were on a trip and there was a chance to rent a bike or something I'd feel like a jackass for not pushing myself to learn.
We're moving the weather station to up on the tower. It's more or less fine where it's mounted about ten feet off the ground, but the trees block some of the wind, and the winds tend to swirl around down on the ground anyway, since we're in a shallow hollow. The idea is to mount it on the tower above the treeline to get a more accurate reading on the winds.
I have a six mile run today. Next Saturday was going to be a race day, but of course I now have no idea when the next race will be and I need to decide what sort of training schedule I want to follow this summer. My original plan was to train to PR a half marathon, and I might as well go with that. By the time the end of summer rolls around we should have a better idea of when things will open up again. And half marathon training has enough variability to keep me engaged, so there will be speed days, longer long run days, cross training, etc. And I'll hopefully be able to add biking in there. I was not able to find or acquire an appropriate rucksack to tackle the rucking challenge this weekend, but that gives me time to adapt to it and maybe do it next year. The few backpacks I have that can handle the weight are sling packs, and there's no way I'll be able to support 10 kilos on one shoulder for a 15+ mile hike. I feel like I need an ibuprofen just thinking about it.
I was out early this morning hoping to see some of the Lyrid meteors but there wasn't anything going on. The peak is supposed to be tonight/tomorrow, but here it's also supposed to be very cloudy.
After gliding several times I started trying to peddle, fell a few times, then Fox said I should try pushing down on the pedal with my right foot while gliding with the left, long story short it was the suggestion I needed to finally actually ride the bike. I rode around the yard several times and avoided hitting things, remembered to use my brake, and I feel pretty pleased with the progress I made. I didn't expect to be peddling and basically ... cycling so soon. Today I'm going to try this on the road. Now that I understand how and can mostly do it (still have some false starts and wobbles) I'd like to get better at it. I was worried that I would never really learn, and we'd have spent all that money for nothing on a bike that would rot in the garage. Then next time we were on a trip and there was a chance to rent a bike or something I'd feel like a jackass for not pushing myself to learn.
We're moving the weather station to up on the tower. It's more or less fine where it's mounted about ten feet off the ground, but the trees block some of the wind, and the winds tend to swirl around down on the ground anyway, since we're in a shallow hollow. The idea is to mount it on the tower above the treeline to get a more accurate reading on the winds.
I have a six mile run today. Next Saturday was going to be a race day, but of course I now have no idea when the next race will be and I need to decide what sort of training schedule I want to follow this summer. My original plan was to train to PR a half marathon, and I might as well go with that. By the time the end of summer rolls around we should have a better idea of when things will open up again. And half marathon training has enough variability to keep me engaged, so there will be speed days, longer long run days, cross training, etc. And I'll hopefully be able to add biking in there. I was not able to find or acquire an appropriate rucksack to tackle the rucking challenge this weekend, but that gives me time to adapt to it and maybe do it next year. The few backpacks I have that can handle the weight are sling packs, and there's no way I'll be able to support 10 kilos on one shoulder for a 15+ mile hike. I feel like I need an ibuprofen just thinking about it.
I was out early this morning hoping to see some of the Lyrid meteors but there wasn't anything going on. The peak is supposed to be tonight/tomorrow, but here it's also supposed to be very cloudy.
