It wasn't that long ago, like a week or 2 ago, that I had to download all the cd's from my Dell DJ mp3 player to my computer then fix all the tags then put them back on my DJ but when I did that I didn't count on the fact that their file names had something to do with anything. For example. If a song says 01 Politik instead of Coldplay - A Rush of Blood To The Head - 01 - Politik then when I go to make a playlist I'm not going to know who the artist is or even which CD that song is from.
Yes, I am really anal about things like that lol. I don't know why, I just am. But it's not for no reason. When I ride my bike sometimes there are songs that are way too loud or they don't have any sound at all then I have to pull over in the dirt on the bike trail, pull the remote control out of the bike frame bag and push the next button. I don't want to have to do that because it slows me down and brings my average speed time down too. It's also annoying to be riding happily then all of a sudden a song blares into your ears and then they start to bleed lol. Or you don't hear anything for a minute before realizing you aren't going to but the song is playing. I don't really understand how that song got put in there. Also there is 1 song that is in there twice from Uncle Kracker. I don't know how that happened.
So, I'm downloading the music to my computer and I will reorganize the names and write down what is going into the playlist and look at each song with a microscope to make sure my ride is full of good music and not annoying music.
Actually, I'd also like to just add the popular songs from certain CD's, the ones that made it to the radio, this way I can cut down on the amount of songs in my playlist which is typically between 550 and 600. It's not going to be easy to weed through them all though, it will take hours, possibly days. Well, at least I have something to do lol.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Day off
I wanted to ride my bike today but Chip reminded me that I said that I was going to take the day off so I did. Even though I really wanted to ride lol. Oh well. I probably should take the day off anyway because if I do this too much I might get too tired of it and stop. I do like the routine of doing it everyday though.
When I was going to the gym 6 days a week in 2005 I had a routine for about 5 months and I wasn't seeing any results and I started eating junk food even though I was trying so hard to lose weight. I pushed myself so hard at the gym then turned around and ate twinkies and cupcakes. I don't want to make that mistake again. That's the reason I quit going to the gym. That and it took 2 1/2 hours just to get there on the bus then 2 1/2 hours to get back home on the bus. I would've been better off riding my bike there, that way I'd get exercise on my way to getting exercise lol.
When I was going to the gym 6 days a week in 2005 I had a routine for about 5 months and I wasn't seeing any results and I started eating junk food even though I was trying so hard to lose weight. I pushed myself so hard at the gym then turned around and ate twinkies and cupcakes. I don't want to make that mistake again. That's the reason I quit going to the gym. That and it took 2 1/2 hours just to get there on the bus then 2 1/2 hours to get back home on the bus. I would've been better off riding my bike there, that way I'd get exercise on my way to getting exercise lol.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
R&R
Today I decided not to go bike riding because I wanted to give my legs a chance to rest since I've been going such a long distance. Tomorrow I will be going out again. I'm just not sure if it's worth riding 17 miles a day while I'm still in this stage of still getting used to riding a bike at all. I mean it's only been a month and even though I've seen 8lbs of weight loss so far I'm not seeing very much weight loss even with 17 and 18 mile days. It's nice to go a long distance to really step it up and everything but I just don't see the results.
Now I realize that by me saying that I'm saying that I'm giving up on going such a long distance and I don't want to say that but at the same time I think I can just do the 11 miles and get away with it for now. I want to burn calories but not at the expense of causing myself pain and possible injury to my muscles. I'm probably going to notice no weight loss at all this week and that's possibly because I'm building too much muscle in my legs causing me to gain muscle weight so I don't see the fat weight disappearing.
The first month was only 8lbs and normally I would be upset by that because 7lbs isn't a lot to lose in a month, that's 2lbs a week but at this point I'm just happy to not be in the 240's anymore. Being in the mid 230's makes me feel that if I can get there then I can get to 220's and so on but it takes time, a lot of time. I need to stop worrying about the scale and stop thinking about it too much.
Tonight I decided that since I was weighing myself as 238 which is more than last weeks weigh in by 1 calorie that I would start eating salads for dinner, just to give me smaller calories for that meal of the day. Breakfast I've been eating toast and a yoplait, lunch a peanut butter and jam sandwich or a ham sandwich. Actually I've been eating 2 sandwiches but I'm going to limit myself to just 1 from now on and as soon as I get more yoplait's on friday I'm going to limit my breakfast to just a yoplait. I love coffee but I'm going to try to limit that too. Chip bought me this whole big thing of creamer so it's going to be difficult to not be able to enjoy it. I'm thinking for now coffee every other day. I have been drinking a lot of water though so that helps big time. Not the sparkling bottled water with flavor that Chip has been buying from Albertson's but just plain filtered water.
Well, I'm blogging this just before bed, I've taken my ambien already so I'm gonna go do the litter box then get in the shower and go to bed.
Now I realize that by me saying that I'm saying that I'm giving up on going such a long distance and I don't want to say that but at the same time I think I can just do the 11 miles and get away with it for now. I want to burn calories but not at the expense of causing myself pain and possible injury to my muscles. I'm probably going to notice no weight loss at all this week and that's possibly because I'm building too much muscle in my legs causing me to gain muscle weight so I don't see the fat weight disappearing.
The first month was only 8lbs and normally I would be upset by that because 7lbs isn't a lot to lose in a month, that's 2lbs a week but at this point I'm just happy to not be in the 240's anymore. Being in the mid 230's makes me feel that if I can get there then I can get to 220's and so on but it takes time, a lot of time. I need to stop worrying about the scale and stop thinking about it too much.
Tonight I decided that since I was weighing myself as 238 which is more than last weeks weigh in by 1 calorie that I would start eating salads for dinner, just to give me smaller calories for that meal of the day. Breakfast I've been eating toast and a yoplait, lunch a peanut butter and jam sandwich or a ham sandwich. Actually I've been eating 2 sandwiches but I'm going to limit myself to just 1 from now on and as soon as I get more yoplait's on friday I'm going to limit my breakfast to just a yoplait. I love coffee but I'm going to try to limit that too. Chip bought me this whole big thing of creamer so it's going to be difficult to not be able to enjoy it. I'm thinking for now coffee every other day. I have been drinking a lot of water though so that helps big time. Not the sparkling bottled water with flavor that Chip has been buying from Albertson's but just plain filtered water.
Well, I'm blogging this just before bed, I've taken my ambien already so I'm gonna go do the litter box then get in the shower and go to bed.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
17 miles
Today I did the same route but only did 17 miles. The reason why is because yesterday before I went on my bike ride I rode the bike to the post office then back. It's just 3 blocks from my house and I wanted to count that time that I rode because I'm greedy lol. Anyway, here are my stats for today.
Distance 17.527, max speed 27.3, average speed 11.1, time 1:34:32, calories 813.7, fat calories 85.2.
Since this is going to be my route from now on this is going to be the last time I put my stats. That is unless I decided to go further. I'd like to just keep this as my current route just so I can lose enough weight so I'm lighter on the bike and I will go faster. Once I'm faster then I can go further.
Distance 17.527, max speed 27.3, average speed 11.1, time 1:34:32, calories 813.7, fat calories 85.2.
Since this is going to be my route from now on this is going to be the last time I put my stats. That is unless I decided to go further. I'd like to just keep this as my current route just so I can lose enough weight so I'm lighter on the bike and I will go faster. Once I'm faster then I can go further.
Monday, November 10, 2008
18 miles
Today I have broken my record of 11 miles by going 18 miles. Here are the numbers from the computer:
18.290 miles, max speed 26.8, average speed 10.7, time 1:42:33, calories 835.7, fat calories 81.2.
My max speed could go up but as I've said before, the weight is what is slowing me down. I'm 236lbs and that's a lot for the bike to carry. As it is even with 20.7 pressure in my tires which is what it's supposed to have, they look like they are going flat when I am sitting on the bike. That's definately heavy lol. And I feel that that weight is what is holding me back from going faster. But as the weight goes down my speed will go up. I have faith that it will. When the speed goes up then I will be able to go longer distance. For now the 18 miles that I rode today will be my bike route. I won't go further than that.
By the way, if you look at the map you can see the trail that I rode. First off I rode from my house to Beach Park but that isn't on the map. That's only a few miles. But look at Beach Park on the map then find China Grade Loop. That is where I went today.
18.290 miles, max speed 26.8, average speed 10.7, time 1:42:33, calories 835.7, fat calories 81.2.
My max speed could go up but as I've said before, the weight is what is slowing me down. I'm 236lbs and that's a lot for the bike to carry. As it is even with 20.7 pressure in my tires which is what it's supposed to have, they look like they are going flat when I am sitting on the bike. That's definately heavy lol. And I feel that that weight is what is holding me back from going faster. But as the weight goes down my speed will go up. I have faith that it will. When the speed goes up then I will be able to go longer distance. For now the 18 miles that I rode today will be my bike route. I won't go further than that.
By the way, if you look at the map you can see the trail that I rode. First off I rode from my house to Beach Park but that isn't on the map. That's only a few miles. But look at Beach Park on the map then find China Grade Loop. That is where I went today.
Sunday, November 09, 2008
More Rain
It rained this morning and I was going to go riding when Chip left for church but it was still raining so I just decided to stay home until the rain stopped instead. He just came home so we'll eat then I'll wait 20 min before going out.
BAH it's still raining. I'm gonna just have to wait for the rain to stop.
BAH it's still raining. I'm gonna just have to wait for the rain to stop.
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