Cool to warm Spring day: Good.
Bicycling around town: Good.
Open wifi various places around town: Good.
Feeling heat of the sun on the back of my neck after sitting down at home: Uh oh ( Read more... )

I've been working a night shift for a while now and seem to have, finally, adjusted my schedule to match it reasonably well. I had last night off and around 11 PM I was getting a bit antsy. I haven't been properly exercising for a few weeks (and yes, it shows...) between an illness and schedule adjustment. The night was not exactly warm, but not ( Read more... )

It was a fairly nice day and so I did something I hadn't done in several months. I went for a bicycle ride. As the snow hadn't all melted from the bike path, I wound up taking the street a bit more than I would normally. I was surprised at how easy it seemed to be compared to my memories of my first ride(s) last year. Maybe I'm in better shape ( Read more... )

For some time I didn't ride the bicycle. This was for various reasons, laziness included. One of them was that the rear tire had a slow leak (which seemed to have disappeared when I checked again this Spring) and I wasn't sure just how to go about getting the rear wheel off of the bike and then changing the inner tube and reassembling everything ( Read more... )

I wear a helmet when I'm on the bicycle. It weirds me out a bit when I'm out on the bicycle and see someone not wearing a helmet riding a motorcycle.

A few days ago I did stop in at the chamber of commerce and inquired about bicycle route maps and such. I was given two maps. One was the full city map, with the route and trail system marked and the other was a smaller simplified map that shows little more than the trail system ( Read more... )

As the Summer progresses or as I see more, I see more cyclists wearing helmets. I also see more parked bicycles locked up. On one of my first outings I recall getting some strange ("What's he doing that for?") looks from a couple kids who just set their bikes in a rack and left them at that. Of course they also gave me looks for a couple other ( Read more... )

Today was a fairly nice day, so I went cycling. A somewhat roundabout but not too bad route got me from home to Dairy Queen (which I haven't stopped at in about ten years) without being on the main streets very much. I had to try the Thin Mint Blizzard. It's good, but I don't need to (and probably shouldn't) do that again ( Read more... )

The flat bicycle tire I didn't really fix has finally been replaced. I had the new inner tube, but new tires were on order. The tires arrived Monday. Naturally the last weekend was good cycling weather. And then I was out of town for a few days, so jmaynard picked up the tires ( Read more... )

A few days ago I bicycled from home to the Fairmont airport. I tried to stay off of the three main streets or roads that I would drive on to get there. I found out that two of my alternate road choices were gravel and not very easy going. And to make it worse, somewhere along the way (might have been the gravel roads, might have been in town on ( Read more... )