@RangerRickL
"... dressing up for exercise..." yeah, that will get me on a tangent. These days I been wearing street clothes but I got plenty spandex. On a practical side, some of my spandex has extra padding built into it. If you saw my bicycle saddle you'd get it. I don't think I ever have to worry about anyone stealing my bicycle. Nobody even really wants to try it out or borrow it.
Sometimes I wear my spandex under my street clothes. But hey, I been thinking lately about a skinsuit. Yeah maybe if I go down another ten pounds. People will be all like look, there goes granpa in a skinsuit.

But I am going to say
yes
yes
yes
Even though I haven't had lunch yet. I know, the budget and tracking will be yesses for yesterday and exercise will be for today.
At daybreak I went climbing for for like 1,900 feet, 12 miles 2 hours. MFP is giving me 1000 or so cals.
I think that is a low ball but I will abide.
It was cold. Wunderground said it would be 38. But it was 32 on the dashboard. Ugh, but you warm up climbing. ... and there are warm places. Sometimes a waft of warm air will hit you and the higher you get the more into the sun you go. You get to the overlook and the sun shines there. Oh yeah, I climb up from a canyon.
I wasn't climbing too hard but I did get a HR of 155. That's like 99% but I think I spent most time in "meander" climb. Sun would come out and I would stop sometimes. My max HR must have been right by going by the cave parking lot. My knee was on edge. I didn't go crazy. I might have overamped Mr. Knee yesterday.
Descending. Cold. You go back into the tunnel. The bottom of that canyon in the summertime is just like a deciduous tunnel. Man o man. I am obsessed with that road. In the summer it is ten degrees cooler than anywhere.
But that formerly deciduous tunnel is cold when the sun don't shine in it anymore.
I almost thought about going back to spin class. Maybe if the road gets icy I will. But then again there is always a lower road.
Lower road, my flat track, that is all right. I think it might have 800 feet of contour in it. There were a bunch of trail runners on it today. Makes me want to race. Ahhh, wait a minute I am too old.
Ohh! Movie trucks! They are making a movie out by my climbing track! Pretty weird. I didn't talk to anybody so I don't know what show it is. But tell me, if it was you seeing that, wouldn't your first fantasy be, ahhh, I wonder if they need any extras?
I wonder if they need a crazy old guy on a bicycle to be going by behind that background of buffalo.
Anyway,
I got 11,660 feet of climb for this month. I was going to try for 26,000. My wife wants to go skiing for 3 day. Ugh, more fun. Fun is keeping me from exercising. Wait a minute...

But if I am going to pull it off I need 14,000 in 14 days. Probably won't happen.

Yesx3 today. I got everything done today! Thank goodness. I cannot believe I had to use all 3 passes this past week. Smh. When it rains, it pours, I guess.

The deciduous tunnel. Well there are actually less leaves now. A couple of weeks ago maybe. The cult of the climbing road. I love going here early.

Exercise: Yes
Calories: Yes
Tracking: Yes

I had a late Saturday night/Sunday morning, tracked everything, stayed within my calories, and even got a walk in. I usually would just stop tracking after an odd day like that. This group is really doing a great job at keeping me accountable.

Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes - online fitness videos 40mins
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? yes