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Oh my aching...
Jun. 28th, 2013 05:00 amSince it was in the 80-s today, I decided to wait until late to take a bike ride. I was overdue for one, but I wasn't crazy enough to try it in the heat of the day.
It was around 70 when I left. When I stareted heading back I passed a sign that said it was 66. It's a few degrees warmer than that outside my apartment. And the humidity is 69%. Ick.
I almost had an accident trying to take a paved trail down by the Columbia Slough. They'd closed that section off to repace it and in the dark, you couldn't see the fence until you were like 3 feet from it.
I could see where other folks had gone around the barrier, so I did too. Looks like it's about 2/3rd done. Bike tires on the fresh asphalt sound weird. Even weirder on the section where they'd done some patching and spread some "tar" but not put the asphalt on top.
I did almost 8 miles, but the real achievement was that I managed to *ride* all the way up Cully from Killingsworth on the last leg back to home.
It's not much of a slope, but it's almost a mile of steady slope. I managed to do it in really low gears, but I did it. I think I've walked most of that the last half dozen times I've gone that way.
That was also the only stretch where my heart rate got out of the 140s. There it got up into the 150s.
I don't know *why, but my body seems to be handling a lot of things better these days. My blood glucose numbers have been great for the last month or so, and when biking, I'm not winding up with my heart rate in the 180s on the hard parts any more. But I can't figure out what I'm doing different.
Gonna have to do more night rides as the temps are gonna be in the 90s a lot of the next week. Might even hit 100. Eek.
Have to try dragging![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fayanora along too. She can use the exercise. And given that she did better than me on the Naked Bike Ride, she should be able to keep up.
Worst case, on one of the hot days, I can get her to go out to the beaches along the Columbia. We can get most of the wayt there by bus & Max. Take some towels, a cooler of food & drinks and maybe some books and the speakers for the MP3 players. Have a picnic on the beach and we can take turns watching stuff while we swim (or wade im her case)
It was around 70 when I left. When I stareted heading back I passed a sign that said it was 66. It's a few degrees warmer than that outside my apartment. And the humidity is 69%. Ick.
I almost had an accident trying to take a paved trail down by the Columbia Slough. They'd closed that section off to repace it and in the dark, you couldn't see the fence until you were like 3 feet from it.
I could see where other folks had gone around the barrier, so I did too. Looks like it's about 2/3rd done. Bike tires on the fresh asphalt sound weird. Even weirder on the section where they'd done some patching and spread some "tar" but not put the asphalt on top.
I did almost 8 miles, but the real achievement was that I managed to *ride* all the way up Cully from Killingsworth on the last leg back to home.
It's not much of a slope, but it's almost a mile of steady slope. I managed to do it in really low gears, but I did it. I think I've walked most of that the last half dozen times I've gone that way.
That was also the only stretch where my heart rate got out of the 140s. There it got up into the 150s.
I don't know *why, but my body seems to be handling a lot of things better these days. My blood glucose numbers have been great for the last month or so, and when biking, I'm not winding up with my heart rate in the 180s on the hard parts any more. But I can't figure out what I'm doing different.
Gonna have to do more night rides as the temps are gonna be in the 90s a lot of the next week. Might even hit 100. Eek.
Have to try dragging
fayanora along too. She can use the exercise. And given that she did better than me on the Naked Bike Ride, she should be able to keep up. Worst case, on one of the hot days, I can get her to go out to the beaches along the Columbia. We can get most of the wayt there by bus & Max. Take some towels, a cooler of food & drinks and maybe some books and the speakers for the MP3 players. Have a picnic on the beach and we can take turns watching stuff while we swim (or wade im her case)
