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How do I get around? Get around, get around, I get around. Heh there is a Beach Boys song that has that in it. I turned 65 a few days ago and I am pretty happy that I am still as mobile as I am. I got some mobility infirmities creeping in but I am fighting them. How do I get around? Mostly biking. If I can come up with an…

Nov 20, tracking - yes exercise - yes calories - measured

NSV... I bought a new pair of 36" pants the other day. Guess what? they are too big. The other day I said how much I like to go outside and play. It is cold. Now I am thinking about going to the gym and sitting on a spin bike. Heh. I will try again tomorrow . See if I can get my outfit right. I was wearing a bandanna over…

@dejavuohlala, there ain't no such thing as failure. Winners circle is the goal, er, one of the goals. But how about if we just keep patching our dietary behaviors until we keep getting better and better? Tracking, tracking, tracking, that is how we do it. Middle of the month and only one pass. Hey, that is better than me.…

Oh man! That is some tropical beauty there @rangerrickl! I think I been there once but that memory is growing kind of vague. But yeah hey, thanks for waking me up. I been exercising but I have to admit to weird diet. Beer and peanuts... but believe it or not, it can be tracked. Peanuts... easily 1000 cals, Beer easily 350…

Cold. Heh, icicles at 7,000 feet or so. Didn't stop trail runner girls from coming out in prettily colored tights though. Hey, that don't hurt my eyes a bit. Cut my climb off at 90 minutes rather than climbing out to the check point so I was 50 feet short of my usual 2,000. Playlist gets to my last song and I start…

Heh, I got to the top of the hill, well, a few hundred short of that and my front tire went totally flat. Ugh, I was on track for a PR. I was running my heart way hotter than than I am supposed to. 90 minutes of fiendish climbing. Don't know why I think that is fun. It was cold but nothing is freezing at elevations I was…

Heh! @RangerRickL talking about 235 pushups the other day got me all jealous. So I devised a strategy. Every hour on the hour I do 20 pushups. Hey, that gets me to 200. Well not really. But the attempt is good exercise. I went climbing then I went an seen Buddy. That little guy is having some neurological trouble. Not to…

235 pushups! Man on man! Here I sit on recovery day drinking beer and whiskey. I am thinking about going camping to Moab. That might be 5 hours of driving but I think the weather still works. My little buddy... I think I might have found some equine therapy for him. I think I might pony up the money for it. Other than…

Race ... Before I can say anything I better say yes, yes, yes. I got in a race with Trail Runner Dan. I am a mountain biker. He is a trail runner. Can Mountain bikers race trail runners? Impromptu .. We park in the same place at the same time. We talk a little bit. He talks about how he is going to run for .2 and walk for…

It is a funny thing about this. I can say ... yes, yes, yes, but that is mostly because I went back to food box tracking. I even had food left over. Food box tracking, well that is the same as camping really. There ain't nothing to eat around here unless I go to the store and that ain't easy from here. Ain't no potato…

@rangerrickl - I am not much of a horse guy. I doubt that I could spend a day on a horse. But that doesn't mean that I don't have horse fantasies or visions. I got this idea about how cool it would be if I was riding my bicycle on the Colorado Trail but I was with an entourage with pack animals that could carry my air…

I don't know ... I am still on track and in tolerance. Still probably won't make winners circle ... but ... this whole tracking thing works. I been doing it for a while but I ain't been doing it perfectly. ... but ... my habits have changed. There are a lot of things that I don't do any more with respect to diet. I don't…

I like them piccies of Sherwood. I especially like that one of the antique looking building with the arch in it. It is my new screen background. ...

Tracking ... I am actually doing better at tracking than I am at signing in. In my defense I have been sleeping out in the woods. Got data but I just can't type on that silly little andriod keypad. I usually lose weight when I am camping. I was up a couple of pounds a couple of weeks ago and couldn't quite shake them in my…

Day 2 of October. This is alright. I didn't get to 2000. I run into Leonard as I was climbing. He was going down. I ain't seen him in what seemed like ages. So he was going down as I was going up. I took that as a cue that this is high enough. So I turned around after a few minutes. Of course that means I encounter Leonard…

I got October off on the right foot. Went out for my 2000 climb. Unremarkable other than a motorcycle went by me on the way up. He went by me again on the way down. He gave me this sign of a fist in the air. I think that is a good thing. yes x 3 ... gotta remember to sign off that way.

Heh... 177 miles with 23,000 of vertical for my Sept. Kind of pale I know but I had fun and didn't gain weight. I am going to try for 1,000 per day in Oct.

Eating peanuts and listening to ZZ Top. How utterly juvenile. But the week in review ... Heh! I climbed 10,750 this past week! Man o man! Spent some quality time helping little kids. Cold ride this morning. Seen a lot of deer. If I was a hunter I would easily have a full freezer.

Today was a good day. I like to spend some time remembering and writing cuz I got this sinking feeling that my memories might not be all that permanent. I climb a mountain on Monday. I see a young athlete topping it after I've topped and turned around. He is riding a feather weight racing bike. I am riding my tractor, my…

My wife is down to her goal weight for Sept already. So she gets an excursion to out of town, probably Durango, if I get down to my goal weight. My goal weight is the same as it was for last month because I am just trying to do the steady state thing. But looking like I got ten days to get three pounds. I can do it but not…

Crazy Bob went for a bike ride today. 27 miles, that ain't much. But lookee here upwards of 4300 feet of climbing. Man o man. My butt got sore a couple of times so I walked a bit. I still got some PR's. Heh, one time I was taking a little break and looking at my smartphone see if I could figure out my elevation. I look…

Rapscallion... dietary violations on my little rapscallion. Well, I got this little rapscallion. So here is me watching my own damn diet but I got to keep track of little Buddy too. That little skanker only weigh 50 pound or so, but he is going to need to be attended for the rest of his life. We got to keep him from…

I found this page on my tracker website that I haven't looked at before or haven't looked at in a long time anyway. It says I climbed 182 thousand feet in the past year. Man o man, that sure did sneak up on me. Different page of that says I burned half a million exercise calories. I wonder about that. It might be true. I…

I am going to say 3 x yes even though (heh, somebody gave me an awesome before I got self conscious and deleted the meat and potatoes.)

@RangerRickL - he is kind of a cool philosopher when you think about it. Did I spell that right? Anyway, one of his remarks talks about hanging out with people that make you feel good. I think he said that or I think he said that about somebody that said that. I like hanging out with my little Buddy. He makes me feel good.…

Don't know that I am up for buying any smart trainer stuff real soon. I just spent bucks on my car. I would like to try that though. Went for a spin this morning though. Only 500 of climbing ... 9/4 - 1.3 hours - 10.4 miles - 1037 feet climbing 9/6 - 1.2 hours - 10.3 miles - 1260 feet climbing 9/10 2.5 hours - 13.4 miles -…

Did my usual climb again. Was a bit more energetic. Got a climb segment PR. I put my HR plot on there. I like how it slowly edges up as I climb. Wildlife - I got buzzed by a redtail hawk. It was huge. It seemed about the size of an eagle but that might have been a trick in my mind. I was in this section of road that was…

Did my usual climb again. Was a bit more energetic. Got a climb segment PR. I put my HR plot on there. I like how it slowly edges up as I climb. Wildlife - I got buzzed by a redtail hawk. I was in this section of road that was bounded by deciduous foliage. Hawk went sweeping by me about chest high maybe 2 or three feet to…

Monday! Happy Monday! My intrepid little Buddy did what today! He took some unsupported steps! Heh! Guys that know me know that I been working for that for a while.