So, I’ve been doing spin classes over at the Freedom center for about a year and now I’ve switched (during nice weather) to actual bike riding.  I’m trying to train up to do a couple of charity events.  The longest of these is 180 miles over 2 days.

My biggest challenge will be to drop some more weight.  As one of my friends says: there isn’t much point in paying for thousands of dollars to save weight on the bike when there are weight savings to be had for free!  I appreciate his tact but he’s right: there’s too much of me to really worry about saving a couple of pounds or ounces on the bike side!  I’m changing my diet to drop some fat.  It isn’t too tough to do.  I lost about 60lbs during a summer 8 years ago when the doc told me I was a diabetic.  This is less weight and should be simple.

The other cool thing is an app I found for the iPhone called “the bike”.  It tracks your route, speed, distance, etc via gps and then uploads it to a website that overlays your track on Google Earth.  Here’s a link to my airport ride.   It isn’t real long but I wanted to try it out on a short ride before I came to depend on it.