Annoyed at exercising inside.

 Snow stopped me from exercising outside.

It has been a few weeks after a few snow storms that had totals of around 2 feet. The roads were plowed and I was able to get out and ride in the road if I wanted to but there was not really enough space on the side of the road for a bike to fit and I am not about to get hit by a driver who is half paying attention and in a rush so I have been exercising inside. It has been a lot of treadmill runs and lifting again. I do enjoy doing those things but I was starting to miss my morning bike ride. A few days ago I decided that I was going to see if the path was plowed... This was just before another storm so there was an attempt at part of it but it just stopped so I rode in the street that day. 

Three days ago I got annoyed that I was just working out inside so I went for a bike ride and picked a longer way to get to the main path that I know they plowed. Once I was there I noticed that the path I normally take to get to the main path was plowed. I was thinking this was perfect I was going to be able to get on my morning bike rides again. On the way back I took the small path back and got to the other end of the area in this picture which is just about 1/3rd of a mile of path that was still not touched at all. There were not even any tracks in it for people walking. It finally got to me and I decided to do somthing about it.... I got off my bike and walked it through the snow dragging my feet so that there would be a path just about big enough for me to ride through it on my fat bike the next day.

Doing this was a lot more than I thought it was going to be. It started out just fine but very shortly I started to see my mistake. Pushing my fat bike through the snow that was deep enough to go over the brake rotors was very hard. I could have done this another way but I wanted to also drag my feet to make the path something that I could ride the next day so pushing and draging my feet in deep snow was overheating me. I ended up not even half way through and I took off my windbreaker and my under jacket. I was still overheating but at least when the wind blew I got some relief. It took me about 45 minutes to get through this 1/3rd of a mile pushing my bike and dragging my feet. My normal walking pace for 3 miles to my downtown and back is 45 minutes to it was a very slow pace. Now clearly I am not going to do all that extra work and expect it to be as quick but I did think it was going to be a little quicker than it was. At least I would have a path for my bike to fit the next time I go riding. 

Someone noticed me and fixed the problem...

I got on my fat bike this morning expecting that there was going to be just this one section of path that was not plowed but would be ridable because of my work the other day. I get to the section and notice that my path is GONE!

I get to where the path is and thought I was confused the other day and the snowy area was deeper in the path but NOPE the whole path was plowed. I am not saying it was 100 percent my doing but it is one of those funny things that happen I waited weeks for them to plow this and figured they were not going to bother doing it so I made my own way through and next thing you know the path is plowed. I am so happy with the town or person that decided it needed to be plowed because now I can use the whole path again and not be in the street at all. With the slightly warmer tempuratures that we have had the past few days there is also very little ice so I do not need to bring my fat bike either. With no snow and almost no ice I can just hop on my gravel bike and go as fast as I can safley go with this being a multi use path. I have been keeping inside and not doing things when all I had to do was show the town that people do infact use this path in the winter and it would have gotten plowed. Even if they did not notice that I still could have paved my own way through and made it passable. Anyway I got to do my entire ride today.

Small update on how the journey is going aside from cycling.

Even though I have been keeping up at running on the treadmill and lifting things have not been going good for the journey. I keep saying I do not want to fall into my old ways and continue to eat healthier but its been a month of slip ups. I have been starting a diet again but with the cost of things and having kids it has been harder. Its not that buying letuce and carrots or what ever is that bad but when I am adding in meals just for me that are different like chicken and rice for dinner, Salad for luch with eggs, and other things like that it becomes just not cost effective. I still use portion control but that has been slipping because I like food too much and I have a weakness to unhealthy foods. This is not something new and I was able to keep myself in check over they past years but this year its harder for some reason. I still eat healthy but I started snacking and eating things that are in the house that are not so good for me. I mean a whole pack of oreos is only like 3.99 and the kids like them so I have them in the house... I will eat half a pack with out thinking about it because they are in the house, I am bored at night, and they are too good. 

Anyway this has cause a bit of weight gain again and I am starting to have a belly again. My belly never fully went away but I was much slimmer 4 months ago. I know I have to stop the snacking and get on my bike every morning again and I am really going to. I still want to do the lifting as well but we will see how things go over the next few weeks and if I can sort myself out. 

I am off to daydream about eating oreos while I am eating some carrots I have left in the house... Thank you very much for reading and have a wonderful day!