johnwhitent Member

You're truly sick when you're secretly happy that the chainring marks on your inner calf did not fully wash off in the shower!

Hey sword! I'm at the halfway point of my own mtb ride today. I just stopped to strip off the armwarmers and such. Enjoy your ride! I'm enjoying mine.

I'm in bunny! An hour and a half is a lot, maybe too much but I'm gonna try. Great idea!

You (he) will have to find something he enjoys! For me it was cycling. I could never get into exercise until I tried mountain biking. It was so much fun! I didn't think of it as exercise but just getting out and having a blast. Wanting to be a better mountain biker led me to road biking to develop more cardiovascular…

Runkeeper!

We were both hiking on the Appalachian Trail.

Free exercise! Most of my early life I was not athletic, but then I got into mountain biking when it was brand new on a national level in the mid eighties. I did it because it was fun, because I enjoyed being in the woods and getting sweaty and dirty like a kid again. I enjoyed doing a hard mtb ride with friends then…

2007 Specialized Roubaix road bike 2010 Giant XTC-1 mountain bike

Weekly Goal: 3,500 Mon: 308 cal burned (30 min road bike ride) Tues: 429 cal burned (30 min trail run) Wed: 589 cal burned (4 mile road run and ten minute cool down walk) Thur: 1,377 cal burned (1,134 mountain biking & 244 hiking) Fri: 594 cal burned (moutain biking) Sat:580 cal burned (4 mile trail run) Sun:calories…

Weekly Goal: 3,500 Mon: 308 cal burned (30 min road bike ride) Tues: 429 cal burned (30 min trail run) Wed: 589 cal burned (4 mile road run and ten minute cool down walk) Thur: 1,377 cal burned (1,134 mountain biking & 244 hiking) Fri: 594 cal burned (moutain biking) Sat:calories burned (how they were burned) Sun:calories…

Weekly Goal: 3,500 Mon: 308 cal burned (30 min road bike ride) Tues: 429 cal burned (30 min trail run) Wed: 589 cal burned (4 mile road run and ten minute cool down walk) Thur: 1,377 cal burned (1,134 mountain biking & 244 hiking) Fri: calories burned (how they were burned) Sat:calories burned (how they were burned)…

Weekly Goal: 3,500 Mon: 308 cal burned (30 min road bike ride) Tues: 429 cal burned (30 min trail run) Wed: 589 cal burned (4 mile road run and ten minute cool down walk) Thur:calories burned (how they were burned) Fri: calories burned (how they were burned) Sat:calories burned (how they were burned) Sun:calories burned…

Weekly Goal: 3,500 Mon: 308 cal burned (30 min road bike ride) Tues: 429 cal burned (30 min trail run) Wed: calories burned (how they were burned) Thur:calories burned (how they were burned) Fri: calories burned (how they were burned) Sat:calories burned (how they were burned) Sun:calories burned (how they were burned)…

Bump so others can see this and offer help.

I would have let it go and that would have been a missed opportunity; you handled it perfectly! Young people are often going to make fun of anyone different from them (size, race, gender, you name it,) that's life. But I bet your story will impact them in years to come even if they forget about it. You gently contributed…

I missed my goal weeks in a row due to sickness but I'm going to try again this week. Off to a slow start Monday but Friday - Sunday are usually my big burn days. Weekly Goal: 3,500 Mon: 308 burned (road bike ride) Tues: calories burned (how they were burned) Wed: calories burned (how they were burned) Thur:calories burned…

Weekly Goal: 3500 Mon: 343 (jogging) Tues: 632 (road bike ride) Wed: 357 (hiking) Thur: Rest day Fri: 332 (walk) Sat:Rest day Sun: 593 (hike) Total: 2,257 Left to go: 1,243 Well I had hoped that I would sufficiently recover my health during the week to hit the goal but I just did not recover as fast as I hoped. I'm not…

Weekly Goal: 3500 Mon: 343 (jogging) Tues: 632 (road bike ride) Wed: 357 (hiking) Thur: Rest day Fri: 332 (walk) Sat:calories burned (how they were burned) Sun:calories burned (how they were burned) Total: 1,664 Left to go: 1,836

Weekly Goal: 3500 Mon: 343 (jogging) Tues: 632 (road bike ride) Wed: 357 (hiking) Thur:calories burned (how they were burned) Fri: calories burned (how they were burned) Sat:calories burned (how they were burned) Sun:calories burned (how they were burned) Total: 1,332 Left to go: 2,168

Weekly Goal: 3500 Mon: 343 (jogging) Tues: 632 (road bike ride) Wed: calories burned (how they were burned) Thur:calories burned (how they were burned) Fri: calories burned (how they were burned) Sat:calories burned (how they were burned) Sun:calories burned (how they were burned) Total: 975 Left to go: 2,525

I signed up last week but the flu knocked me out. I'm still weak but if I can recover enough strength to mountain bike by Friday I think I can do it. Here's hoping! Weekly Goal: 3500 Mon: 343 (jogging) Tues: calories burned (how they were burned) Wed: calories burned (how they were burned) Thur:calories burned (how they…

I signed up for this challenge on Sunday while suffering with the flu but believing that I was recovering. Unfortunately here I am five days (with no exercise) later and just now starting to recover. Normally I could burn 3,500 in the remaining three days but in this case I think that would be rather stupid to try; just…

Have you tried your same walk wearing a hrm both with and without poles? I would trust the real world test of a friend more than an article. I do believe that the poles would help, but I'm not so sure about a 48% higher calorie burn. Let me know if you have done this test or if you do it sometime soon. I am curious but I'm…

You only have a brief window in which you can edit, after that it is permanent!

You disagree with everyone??? Dang! Who is being judgemental here? I don't find that in theses posts, except that you come across as pretty rough on everyone. But I do celebrate with you your own reason for choosing your pic.

Weekly Goal:3500 Mon 10/10/11: calories burned 0 - Rest day due to flu Tues 10/11/11: calories burned (how they were burned) Wed 10/12/11: calories burned (how they were burned) Thur 10/13/11:calories burned (how they were burned) Fri 10/14/11: calories burned (how they were burned) Sat 10/15/11:calories burned (how they…

I'm game for 3,500, but I will get off to a very slow start. I am in day three of the flu so I will not exercise on Monday and possibly Tuesday. If I can do something Wednesday and be back on track Thursday through Sunday I can still hit 3,500. Its a bit of a gamble but I'll either be back to health or not. I need this…

My current obsession of choice.

My wife sometimes accuses me of being obsessed and I used to try to defend myself, but then I realized that she is right, at least from the average person’s perspective, so go with it. If I am obsessed it is a controlled and healthy obsession. As Jake said, avoiding burn out and overuse injuries is crucial so I vary my…

I was just in the same position, I needed protein but not more carbs (I'm not low carb, I just get plenty,) and not much suger. Plus I needed it to be affordable. I got Body Fortress and I am very happy with it.