The cycling group that I've mentioned was apparently supposed to start today. In order to avoid the heat of the day, the plan was to start around 8:00, which is when the Sunday morning service usually starts. But it turns out that there is one that starts at 6:45. So I managed to get up early enough and made it there, and in fact the leader of the ( Read more... )

I checked with one of my friends who is in the cycling group and he assured me that the Sprague Road test is a mid-season thing. At the beginning of Spring, when the group starts anew, pretty much nobody is capable of making it up that road, so I will be going out with them whenever they start.

This didn't stop me from working on getting into shape ( Read more... )

OK, it's too soon to talk about that, but... I am following through. I usually work at home on Tuesday and Friday, so today I took a quick spin up the hill outside my house, then down and up again. The goal is to build up my leg strength to take on Sprague Road. I managed to make it up without too much problem, using the 4th or 5th gear on my ( Read more... )

On another forum, a girl posted her intention to lose weight and her incentive (her live-in boyfriend offered to propose once she reached a healthy weight) and invited a number of us to join her. She posted a link to one of those online BMI calculators, and I discovered that according to their scale (which takes into consideration nothing but ( Read more... )