My piriformis has healed enough that I thought it won't mind hiking, and my uphill walking last monday was encouraging. So Wednesday I tried my favorite local trail, the Arrowhead loop in Coyote Valley Open Space, and had a great time. It started out in an amusing way. On Tuesday I had a harder than … Continue reading First Real Hike in a Long Time →

In the summer issue of Outside Magazine there's an interesting article "Body Shop" by Matt Skenazy (Outside, summer 2021, p 74) . Matt is a serious ultrarunner, rock climber, and skier, in his thirties. Up until now he had not done a lot of work like auxiliary strength training to prepare himself for his fun … Continue reading Preparing Your Body For Your Favorite Activities →

I had stayed away from hiking for a while when I had piriformis syndrome in my right hip. It's doing a lot better now so I want to get back into it. I decided to "stick my toe in the water" by bike/walking some of our local steep streets. It was a pleasant day for … Continue reading Getting Back Into Hiking →

First let me clear up a terminology issue. What I call clip-in pedals are usually called "clipless". This odd term is do distinguish them from old-school pedals with toe clips and straps. "Clipless" have a cleat on the bottom of the shoe that hooks into a mechanism on the pedal. I'll keep calling them "clip-in" … Continue reading Recumbents Don’t Need Clip-in Pedals- Who Knew? →

Time-restricted eating is a type of intermittent fasting that I find easy to do. Lots of nutrition, longevity, and medical experts agree on the benefits of intermittent fasting. For one thing, it allows the body to do an internal cleanup cycle known as autophagy that gets rid of damaged components in cells. Research on the … Continue reading Benefits of Time-restricted Eating →

There is a meetup group called Bay Area Recumbent Cyclists that rides in various places in the San Francisco Bay Area. Today they came down to my neck of the woods and rode on the Coyote Creek Trail so I was able to join them. 'Bents on Parade- We had 5 trikes and 3 two … Continue reading Outing With Fellow Recumbent Riders →

My Tuesday group rode from a spot near the little town of Paicines in San Benito County, out neighbor to the south. At the Start is the Jon Kaplan memorial, to a member of our club who was killed on nearby state highway 25, by a distracted driver. That road has some narrow shoulders and … Continue reading Beautiful Backroads in San Benito County →

Ducks, Geese, and Terns at Community Park. There's a nice dirt path that circumnavigates the park, and there's a dog exercising area to the left of the picture. I like to see the doggies having fun off-leash. Little Llagas Creek runs through Southwest Morgan Hill. More than 20 years ago a development went in and … Continue reading Some Pleasant Urban Riding →

As I mentioned in my recent post about "NatureScore", I am motivated to spend more time in more natural settings, which for me means more hiking. So yesterday I rode my bike to Harvey Bear County Park and did the Willow Springs trail, one of my favorites. It was foggy and quite cool, the fog … Continue reading Spent Some Time in a High “NatureScore” Setting →

Alex Hutchinson recently wrote an article "Nature Is Medicine. But What’s the Right Dose?" for Outside Magazine. He described the app naturequant (for "quantifying nature") codeveloped by three friends, a data expert, a software guy, and an expert in environmental psychology. I wrote a previous blog "The Healing Power of Nature" on this topic. Naturequant is … Continue reading What’s Your NatureScore? →