Biking - Good and Bad

So I've been putting time in on the bike.  Doing the Shiner GASP in May has got me a bit motivated which is good.  I've been using my mountain bike lately because I need repairs on the road bike which I can't really afford right now.  And unfortunately turns out the mountain bike needs some repairs too, and I just got it back from the shop, so I will be taking it back in tomorrow to see what's up.  Just some loose spokes so it shouldn't be a big deal, but still.  So that's the bad.

Anyways, today I was suppose to ride an easy 15 miles with a friend.  But he got a migraine and so canceled out.  No worries, I headed to MP myself and was thinking about my workouts this week and how they just won't fit into the schedule too well because of other things going on.  I started thinking about doing more than the 15 miles so my Thursday ride can be shorter since I'm busy that day.  But after the first 5 miles, I realized how fast I was going and decided to keep the tempo going and see just how fast I could do the 15 in on the mountain bike.  Then as I got closer to the 15, I decided to up it to one hour to see how far I can go in one hour at a good tempo. And as it turns out I managed 17.32 miles.  Which is not a bad speed for the mountain bike and for me being out of shape!  I can totally see me getting quite a bit faster with the consistent training.  After that, I spun easy for another 9 miles, so got a total of 26ish in tonight.  Meaning Thursday will technically only need to be 15 miles, but I might just do 5 since it's St Patrick's day and I'm going to be hanging out at Howl (You should come out! Tell them Steve sent you to get in free and a couple cheapo drinks!)

This past Saturday I put in 30 miles and that felt pretty good until I got off the bike. My legs and butt just didn't want to move around too much, but after a nice hot shower things became flexible again and I was good.

I've also started doing weights again last week.  And I'm noticing improvements already on that.  So that's also motivating.  I'm suppose to do it tomorrow but Wednesdays are optional, if I get up and feel good or feel good after work then I will do it, if not, I will do it on Friday, which is not an optional day.

So things on this front are seeming to be pretty good.

Now if I can get the rest of my life cleaned up like this, it would great.  Latest truck news, someone tried to break into it. They failed but they screwed up the passenger door lock.  So that will have to be replaced once I can save up the money for that.  My poor truck... Always getting beat up on.

I'm still here...

Don't know if anyone really reads this, but I am still here. 

I was kind of down and out with a sickness the last two weeks.  But I'm getting back into the swing of things now. 

Yesterday I realized I have less than ten weeks left before Shiner GASP (a 100 mile bike ride from Austin to Shiner.) This prompted me to get a biking schedule figured out.  So for the next 9+ weeks I have biking three times a week, trying to get my mileage up to where I need it to be so I can enjoy the ride.  I could probably survive it now, but yeah, enjoying it would be much better.

With that, I will be adding some strength training as well, trying to get my lean muscle back.  This sitting around doing nothing has definitely put a toll on my body that it's not use to, and it's time to get things back to where they need to be.

I still need to get my sugar addiction under control.  I had a good couple of days this week, but then fell backwards yesterday. ... Interestingly (just now thought of this) yesterday was the only day this week I didn't have my smoothie for breakfast.  If it's helping me stay away from those other things, I need to redouble my effort to making sure I have a morning smoothie every day. 

Will start posting my frequently again now that I'm getting back into things...