9.2 miles of real running this morning. Pain free!!! Well almost- there's just a little bit of soreness in my legs throughout from the elliptical the last few day. But other than that I felt great and now I can't stop smiling from ear to ear. What a roller coaster this last week has been for me and my wife. At one point I really thought I was done running or at least racing for sure. I tend to get a little excited... Anyways at the end of it all maybe it was for a reason. See I've been toying with the idea of converting my car over to natural gas. But it's pretty expensive and yad, yad, yad. So when I got hurt last week I decided I was going to buy a mountain bike and ride like 40 miles a day to maintain fitness the best I could. That led me to think that I really don't need a car. Mik'L and I are in a situation where I don't really have a lot of responsibility and could very easily use a bike to get around. So that's what I'm doing. Selling my car (I love my car by the way) and replacing it with a mountain bike. I'm excited to see how it will help my fitness. I'll continue to hit the mileage I've been doing (pre Ogden) and also peddle my way around town. We or I really am not like one of those activist crazy type people. I just don't use my car much. In the last two year I've only put 16,000 miles on my car- a lot of those miles were taking it on trips and stuff that we can easily do all those miles in Mik'L's car. So there you have it- I'm running again and happy and there is a sweet mountain bike out there that will have a new home soon! (Blue Cumulus 367.6) 4.1 mile run from my house down to the bike store (Sunset Cycle). I did it. I bought my machine and she is a beauty. I got a Giant (Reign 2) . What a fun bike! I've researched things to death and was in between 2 other bikes but finally decided to go with this one. I love it! I rode 15.8 miles in (1hr 16 min's) back home from the store. Right now I'm not sure how or (if) exactly I will convert my bike miles to the blog so I'm leaving them off for now. It was a good ride 13 of it was basically up from the river back into Washington and up above GS and the bike rolled like a champ. For the moment I've decided how I'll count my bike miles. I'll use a 1 to 4 ratio. I feel this is more than fair to myself for the effort and time involved. I don't have a lite speedy road bike- my bike with everything I have on it weights 33 lbs. Pretty beefy compared to anything on the road. So for my ride this afternoon I'll give myself 3.95 miles of easy running....This is almost half of what I was using for the cross training miles. That formula was every 10 min's of activity was worth 1 miles.
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