Last weeks endeavors

I realize that I haven't posted in a full week, but this blog is young and not much exciting happened last weeks. After work on the 4th I headed to the MAX station instead of home as I had a game downtown to go to. It's an extra mile added to my usual ride home and of course it was pouring down rain the entire way. Thankfully I had the poncho on. Another mile from MAX to Guardian Games for a total of five miles in the afternoon. After the game a friend of mine has been giving me a ride home usually in his mini van. I decided to go ahead and ride the mile back uphill to MAX instead last Monday. The rain had stopped but I put the poncho back on just in case. I should have left it in the bag.

Climbing the hill on Grand it crosses over I-84, as I rode over the highway a gust of wind flipped the poncho up and over my head. I was blind, moving slow, in the dark, on a normally busy road. Thankfully the road was pretty empty at the time and I managed to stop without crashing. I took off the poncho and stuffed it in the bag. I pushed on to the MAX station and called my wife, who picked me up at the Gresham end and drove me the rest of the way home. I ended Monday with six miles ridden for the day.

Tuesday I rode in to work, I was exhausted. I had been making it to work tired, but without having to stop on any of the hills along the way. I had to stop once, and finish a hill by pushing the bike. I had no energy in my legs. I spent the rest of Tuesday on shakey legs, downing as much water as I could. I decided to take it easy the rest of the week, still cycling, just at an easy pace and stopping as much as I felt necessary. I stopped once on my way home Wednesday, even though I didn't really feel I had to. Thursday I made it in to work with one stop but I at least didn't have to push up any hills. I was on call for work the rest of the week so no cycling Friday or Saturday. Sunday morning I got up and weighed myself, another 10 pounds lost. That's 25 pounds off so far! I took a longer route home from work in the afternoon after dropping my truck off once I was finally off duty. It only adds a little over half a mile to the ride but every little bit helps.

I made it into work today with no stops.