My local group rode up into the hills East of Gilroy on a beautiful but windy day. We carpooled to the start, which involved some interesting arranging getting 3 bikes into my friend's van, whose house I'd ridden to. The main ride started at the Mendoza Ranch entrance to Harvey Bear park on Roop road, … Continue reading Up in the East Hills →

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/ultra-processed-junk-food-put-to-the-test/ Dr. Michael Greger's latest nutrition video is about ultra-processed foods, aka junk. It has the astonishing statistic that over 50% of the calories consumed in developed countries come from junk. And when looking at binge eating disorders, pretty much 100% of the calories consumed during a binge are from junk. That rings true for … Continue reading Most People Eating Too Much Junk →

It was raining off and on in the morning so our group ride almost got canceled, but five of us decided to give it a shot anyway. It was a pleasant outing to the foothills East of San Martin and Gilroy. We mostly avoided the rain but it got us a bit right at the … Continue reading Flirting With The Rain in the East Foothills →

I rode my upright to Coyote Valley Open Space and then hiked the Arrowhead trail, which is about 4 miles with some decent climbing. The whole workout was a bit over two hours on a nice spring day. Surprisingly, I set a PR on the hiking loop of 57 minutes, the first time I broke … Continue reading Bike Hiking The Arrowhead Trail →

In my follow-up today with my cardiologist, he gave me surprising news. I have mild to moderate regurgitation in my replacement heart valve, as measured in an echocardiogram. It's not the valve itself that's leaking, it's around the edges where the lining was sewn to the aortic wall. My doc says this sometimes happens shortly … Continue reading Surprising News From Cardiologist →

I rode with my Tuesday route on a nice country loop that goes around Uvas and Chesbro reservoirs, plus out and back on Casa Loma road to the start of Rancho Canada Del Oro Open Space. The section heading north up to Casa Loma was tough because it was several miles against a stiff headwind. … Continue reading Round The Reservoirs →

This post from Rocio Espinoza contains a lot of good inspiration and resources. Rocio is a content writer at Porch.com. She is a mother of two and is passionate about wellness, fitness, sustainability, a pet lover, and a true believer in the power of positive affirmations. Her hobbies are reading, writing, and cooking. You can … Continue reading Guest Post: The Power of Positive Affirmations at Home →

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-a-flawed-experiment-proved-that-free-will-doesnt-exist/ Whether or not we have free will is a surprisingly controversial topic. It seems obvious that we do from our subjective experience, but it's possible to show that there are many times when we think we are behaving from free will but are actually just following conditioned responses. I grant that point, but I … Continue reading We Have Free Will (But It Takes Willpower) →

We had a summer-like hot snap for a couple of days, but yesterday it got really windy to usher spring-like weather back in. I took my recumbent for a ride, and it was nice to have assist going north against the wind. No assist on the way back, the wind was all I needed. Flags … Continue reading Windy Ride →

Sadly, our green hills are starting to turn brown already because of the low amount of rain this year. Usually, they last into late May or sometimes even June. Right now they're still green on east-facing slopes but turning on the west-facing ones. I still had a nice ride of about 2 hours, it wasn't … Continue reading The Hills Are Turning… →