It is very rare that we get a rainstorm when it is cold enough for the snow to come low, but it just happened. The local foothills in the pictures below are less than 1000 feet in elevation. The first few are all close by, taken on a short ride from my home. The rest … Continue reading Snow Visits The Bay Area →

Adventure Sports Journal, Feb/March 2023 This issue of Adventure Sports Journal had the inspiring story of Shawn Cheshire, an Army Vet and EMT. This is a free journal available in various places, my local bagel shop had it. In 2009 Shawn got a traumatic brain injury while treating a combative patient, and ended up going … Continue reading Inspiration: Blind Adventure Athlete Shawn Cheshire →

I created my own segment on Strava, so I thought that made me the "king of the mountain" until someone else rides it faster. But it turns out Strava found others in the 70-74 age group who had done it so I'm now number 5. As I believe I've previously mentioned, there are a lot … Continue reading I Created My First KOM Segment →

I did some hard rides Sunday and Tuesday with two different groups so yesterday was an easy local recovery spin. I still got in some nice scenery, and my legs felt great afterward. This is the view from a rural road about a half mile from home This is on the way to the base … Continue reading Easy Local Ride →

This is a fascinating book by evolutionary biologist Herman Pontzer on how our basic metabolic needs and activity add up to our total daily energy expenditure. http://www.Amazon.com/books It caught my eye because something about calories in/calories out has never seemed to add up for me. The conventional wisdom is that to determine your daily caloric … Continue reading Burn: How We Really Burn Calories →

I like exercises that allow me to get an aerobic workout with upper-body muscles. My favorite upper-body workout, walking with hand weights is impaired somewhat currently because my sore SI joint limits the length of my walks. My PT facility had a machine that allowed me to arm-cycle which I enjoyed, and I thought it … Continue reading Arm-Cycling →

Near Anderson Lake county park and the Southern end of the Coyote creek path there are some easy off-road trails I enjoy riding on so I went over there yesterday. The sun was just starting to peek out of the morning fog. This made for a fun 90-minute ride on my e-bike. I didn't really … Continue reading Some Off-Road Riding →

When I was undergoing PT for my SI joint, one of my therapists, LeAnn, mentioned she does a local group ride on Sundays, so I decided to tag along. I did make sure they didn't mind me bringing my e-bike because they do a lot of hills and I wanted to be sure I could … Continue reading Fast Ride With Sunday Group →

Yesterday I was feeling my oats so decided to do a shot at my first KOM attempt since turning 70. I tried a short steep climb on West Main on my lightweight Sirrus upright. It was very unpleasant, going that hard uphill causes me to go into severe oxygen debt, and today it also caused … Continue reading KOM Attempt and Recumbent Cruise →

My group did our normal "Taco Tuesday" ride, which involves taking the Coyote Creek Path out beyond where it is still flooded out from the recent rains. We worked around the bad spot by going over to Monterey highway on the way out, then took Malech road in the east foothills on the way back, … Continue reading Coyote Flood Detour →