Well, here is me trying to touch on all of them dots in Rick's info graphic.
Dietary travelogue. I get off the internet, outside the range of data and cell service, tracking becomes kind of intuitive. Then I wonder about the legitimacy of saying yes to tracking. But I am down a few pounds and I am getting some good exercise or recreation.
I spent some quality time this week on a scrabbly road hiking and biking. Heh, five hours yesterday. I don't know how much today. More than twenty minutes.
I love a scrabbly road that I got mostly to myself. Problem with that is if I fall off my bike and break my ankle or hip I might be laying there a while before someone comes along. Possibly overnight.
20 miles out and back some of it riding, some of it walking, all of it is time spent not eating. I take food, but you know, not really Fritos or Pringles. Belvitas are pretty good. They got protein, carb and minimal fat. Apple and a banana goes in the bag. Belvita is 250 cals. I like them but don't get to eat the whole box even though I want to.
The road, I love a dirt road that doesn't go anywhere. This road has got its ups and downs between 10 and 11 thousand feet. So it is a good place to acclimate to some altitude. Get your anaerobic experience that way. The last couple of miles is too steep for me to ride up so I push my bike. Then coming back down it the realization is that it is even too steep to ride down. It is so scrabbly and rough that you bounce a lot. When you are bouncing your wheel isn't on the ground. When your wheel ain't on the ground you ain't got no friction. When you do get friction it will be on these rocks that roll under your wheel and kick your wheel out sideways. That is disconcerting enough for me to walk down a hill. Weird eh?
Another fascination of this road is that runoff or meltwater cascades across the road in places. That is some cold water. It is 100 plus degrees everywhere I know people is at but this water is so cold that if you were stuck immersed in it for 10 minutes I bet you would be dead of hypothermia. That'd be weird. Hypothermia on the hottest day of the year.
But the big question about this water cascading across the road is, can I splash through it without stalling in the middle of it? See how this works is that he more water there is the bigger and looser and slicker the rocks under foot are. My dread is that if I mug out half way I will do a hard dismount into big ankle twisting rocks. So here is BadBob letting a little air out of his ego and pushing his bike across the cascade. But some of them cascades I can splash on through though. That is how that is.
But that ain't nothing. The best part is the sun going down. Of course I got pictures of that but get this. The other night was waning crescent. That is like no moon. So it is a dark night. And at 10,000 feet the dry clear air has got some nice optical qualities. There is no haze. So you look up and see more stars than you have ever seen. So I ain't gonna sleep in a tent. I am going to just pump up my air mattress, put my sleeping bag and a pillow and go to bed wearing my glasses so that them stars will be in focus.
Man o man! I could see meteors or meteorites streaking across the sky. They seem so close that you could imagine a smoke trail behind them.
I could see the Milky Way galaxy!
Man o man!
Sometimes I think that road for me is borderline age inappropriate. I wonder when I got to quit doing it. Maybe not this year.

@bocasdelbadbob , love the picture. You are amazing. I love reading about your hikes. I just realized what my problem has been all my life..........I never, ever thought about age appropriate..........maybe I SHOULD be doing that...lol............but no I want people to remember me this way.





I am so thankful for my awesome friends. I had a girlfriend deliver, BBQ'd chicken done up n portions for Bud & I, homemade light quiche, and breakfast buritos(lots for freezer) with recipe I put in MFP so have all nutritional info on what we r eating. .....WE ARE TRULY BLESSED. Our sons and gandson in law..lol are coming this evening to clean up the yard(we have 1/2 acre so not a quick job). Feeling very thankful today!

yes,yes,yes

@gus130, my hat is off to you and here is me hoping that you got the best and most diligent and conscientious of medical professionals working your case.