Showing posts with label bicycling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bicycling. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
I know it's been a while...
..since I posted anything. I've been very busy and I haven't done much hiking or exploring unfortunately. Last weekend, however, I did go on a new bike route. I rode a 21 mile loop Sunday in the country and It was great weather, and great scenery (for around here, anyway) No photos as i no longer have a working camera. maybe I'll get a new one next month.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
New Hiking Partners!, Tuning Up the Bike, And Shin Splints
59*, 30.11 in and steady barometer, 36% humidity, VAR 5 mph wind, fair
This weekend has been busy for me. We not only cleaned house from top to bottom and put up new curtains, but I took the dog and a neighbors kid on their first hike with my husband (who normally doesn't join me on these types of outdoor excursions). We had a good time (even though I have a shin splint from exercising so much more lately) and I learned some new wildflowers:
Cutleaf Toothwort, Spring Beauty, and Rue Anemone, alone with seeing plenty of wildflowers I already knew like trillium and jack-in-the-pulpit. What a great place the dunes are for spring wildflowers!
Here the Kid is studying poison ivy, something he didn't know how it looked.
Enjoying a healthy trail snack.
Contemplating...
It was a short hike as I wanted to make it fun for all 3 of my companions so that they wouldn't be discouraged from coming again. The kid is very excited to go on his next hike and I am glad to be able to share my love of nature with a youngster who hasn't had much experience with the outdoors.
Today, Sunday, after dreaming about buying a touring bike in my sleep, I just had to get my bike out. I tuned it up, oiled and tested it and even pimped my ride a bit with a basket so that I can go to the farm when I want and carry my produce home easily and comfortably. I've never tuned up a bike before...I'm mighty proud of myself for doing it myself. And if you want to feel freedom.....the first ride feels fantastic and it didn't aggravate my shin splint at all as I use different muscles to peddle then to jog, hike or walk the dog. The high I felt after the short ride was fantastic to say the least...I was floating on a cloud.
I spent the rest of the sunny day weeding the garden, cleaning house, and icing my shin splint down. What a good weekend :)
This weekend has been busy for me. We not only cleaned house from top to bottom and put up new curtains, but I took the dog and a neighbors kid on their first hike with my husband (who normally doesn't join me on these types of outdoor excursions). We had a good time (even though I have a shin splint from exercising so much more lately) and I learned some new wildflowers:
Cutleaf Toothwort, Spring Beauty, and Rue Anemone, alone with seeing plenty of wildflowers I already knew like trillium and jack-in-the-pulpit. What a great place the dunes are for spring wildflowers!
Here the Kid is studying poison ivy, something he didn't know how it looked.
Enjoying a healthy trail snack.
Contemplating...
It was a short hike as I wanted to make it fun for all 3 of my companions so that they wouldn't be discouraged from coming again. The kid is very excited to go on his next hike and I am glad to be able to share my love of nature with a youngster who hasn't had much experience with the outdoors.Today, Sunday, after dreaming about buying a touring bike in my sleep, I just had to get my bike out. I tuned it up, oiled and tested it and even pimped my ride a bit with a basket so that I can go to the farm when I want and carry my produce home easily and comfortably. I've never tuned up a bike before...I'm mighty proud of myself for doing it myself. And if you want to feel freedom.....the first ride feels fantastic and it didn't aggravate my shin splint at all as I use different muscles to peddle then to jog, hike or walk the dog. The high I felt after the short ride was fantastic to say the least...I was floating on a cloud.
I spent the rest of the sunny day weeding the garden, cleaning house, and icing my shin splint down. What a good weekend :)
Monday, December 31, 2007
Its the Eve of 2008, Happy new year!
31*, feels like 23*, 96% humidity, NNE 8 mph wind, Light Snow
This is the last day of my old ways---That's the hope that everyone has every year with their new resolutions. It is my hope as well. Starting tomorrow, things that have passed these lips to find a home on my hips will have to start packing up and going bye-bye. In the living room, waiting future wear and tear are my exercise gear-- the new things I bought, and some old forgotten things that have gathered dust for a little too long. In the closet, backpacking gear waits patiently for the first trails of the year. My bike waits in the shed for warm day riding. I am gearing up for my "eat local" self-challenge, and a year of creatively finding ways to cut costs AND improve my life.
I will leave you with a little song I love.
This is the last day of my old ways---That's the hope that everyone has every year with their new resolutions. It is my hope as well. Starting tomorrow, things that have passed these lips to find a home on my hips will have to start packing up and going bye-bye. In the living room, waiting future wear and tear are my exercise gear-- the new things I bought, and some old forgotten things that have gathered dust for a little too long. In the closet, backpacking gear waits patiently for the first trails of the year. My bike waits in the shed for warm day riding. I am gearing up for my "eat local" self-challenge, and a year of creatively finding ways to cut costs AND improve my life.
I will leave you with a little song I love.
Monday, October 1, 2007
350* from the neighborhood sledding hill
48 minute walk this morning. Drizzly, barely cool enough for a light jacket.
Animals seen:
Cottontail rabbit
ground squirrel
Sapsucker
Robbins
Blackbirds
Finches
Blue jay
Cardinal
Sparrows
2 bicyclists
1 neat caterpillar
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