Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Monday, June 3, 2013
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Go to my new blog
I am currently not posting to this blog until I finish my bike ride that I have already started. I made the bike riding blog only bike riding posts and when my ride is over I will return to posting here on this blog. To see the bike blog go to: http://jimfrogsbikeride.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Saturday, March 16, 2013
New Bike blog
I took my bike riding part of the blog and made it a separate blog. I am getting ready to leave on another cross country ride soon this time across the Northern tier of states. I will add my daily blog to the new blog with a few updates to this blog about my ride and about anything non bike related will also stay in this blog. The new blog is:
jimfrogsbikeride.blogspot.com
I was asked to do this because some of the directories want a more focused topic for their blogs than what this blog has been. Thanks for reading my blogs and feel free to share them with your friends.
PURAVIDA
Monday, February 4, 2013
starting to prep for 2013 ride
I am starting to prepare for my bike ride up the West coast to Seattle where I will turn right and take the Northern tier over to Maine and then go down the East coast. I have ordered the maps from Adventure Cycling Association. I bought a new sleeping bag. I found the mummy shape to be uncomfortable on my last ride. My legs would get restless after long rides and the mummy shape restricted my movement too much. In the warm weather which I will be in most of the time the mummy was also too warm for me. When I go over the mountain passes where it is colder, I can just wear my sweats at night to keep warmer and I will get by without the hot mummy bag. I still need to get a new sleeping pad also. A few more cooking pots and pans are on my list too so that I can eat better and cheaper on this trip cooking more food myself. I ate too many cans o soup and stew last year just because it was easy to open a can and heat it up on my stove. I need to improve that diet this time.
I plan on leaving in April so I have less than three more months to get ready. My body weight is already high again even though I have been riding almost three hundred miles a week weather permitting. I just put new tires and tubes on the bike also. Marathon Plus tires again and heavy duty tubes. That combination slows me down a tad but it is worth going a bit slower and not getting flats. They are a bit tough to fix when there is a flat but such is life. My health still sucks. I am healthier on my rides than I am living in one place maybe because I only do about half the mileage when I live someplace. I also have been overindulging in food and beer so that does not help things. I will update again in a few weeks.
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