Category Archives: Fitness

Biking: A Saturday tradition

Or it’s becoming one. Now, I considered (as I did last Saturday) posting this in my health blog Terveys instead of this one, but I decided that, hey, this isn’t just a separate topic now: this is something that I’m … Continue reading

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Morning routine

It’s been some time now since I’ve integrated the dietary changes in my life enough that I don’t really have to think one helluva lot about how to put a meal together, or even a full day’s meals, or what … Continue reading

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Bike day #4

Actually, it’s bike day #5, if you include last Saturday when I rode it downtown for my writing day, & then along the Coastal Trail to Westchester Lagoon & back home again. But this count is of days biking to/from … Continue reading

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Tired…

I am really tired today. Not sleepy, but physically tired, like the battery’s run down. I felt a bit like this last night after the bike ride home from work, too. Was I working myself harder than before, biking, or … Continue reading

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Tramping in the woods

Lichen forest at the foot of a birch tree Just in case my earlier bike jaunt wasn’t enough exercise for the day, we packed me, Rozz, Jesse, Jesse’s dog Sweetheart, & Jesse’s bike (unnamed) into the car & drove out … Continue reading

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Biker dyke in the making

Bike helmet & pomegranate tea Took the bike up today to Side Street for writing. Instead of taking the steep hill up E Street to get downtown, I took the bike trail towards Westchester Lagoon and cut right to take … Continue reading

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Bike day #2

I just got done huffin’ & puffin’ to work, my second day on the bike. Today I did the 4 miles in 35 minutes, instead of the 40 it took on Tuesday, but believe me it’s not because I’m in … Continue reading

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Bike day #1

I finally did it. Sometime last fall, we started driving the car less often, & began taking the bus to/from work & other destinations more often. For me, that’s usually meant taking the bus sometimes as many as three or … Continue reading

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Enough with the rut

Discussion on one of the lists I’m on has returned to an old issue, to the effect of: I was losing weight, but now I’m at a plateau — how do I get out of the rut? Lots of the … Continue reading

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My feet have veins!

Well, duh, of course they do. But it’s not till recently that I’ve been able to see them, having suffered from edema for a good long while. I really like looking at my feet now. Rozz tells me it’s because … Continue reading

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