Week Progress

My new bike came in last night, and I got it all assembled and did a token ride down the street.  I did have to use the junk peddles they gave me at the store.  Today I bought many of the important accessories for the new bike, and brought my old bike in for a desperate tune-up. I now have a bell (briiing, brrrring), odometer, bike-lock, water bottle holder, seat bag, and a tool for doing bike repairs. Still need air pump, bike seat and a set of peddles for it. 

Biking this week has been fun, I've biked Mon, Tues, Wed and Thurs for a total of 120km.  The trails are mostly good but there is some icy patches and then there are some rough icy patches (not fun). I've been biking from Souldice Park to downtown Calgary (15km each way).  I started biking to work mid December with a few weeks of doing just 2 bike trips a week, and some running thrown in.  This week I biked and ran Monday, but thought I should let my body work at building up my biking legs as I've been exauhsted most evenings this week and have gone to bed early (10-11pm) which to me is very early, I'm usually a night owl.

Tomorrow I hope to do another lunch run, of 6.4 km.  I am not sure if I'll bike in tomorrow or now as I probably should let my biking muscles have some rest breaks as well.   The funny thing is that its faster (and cheaper) for me to bike in from Souldice Park then to drive to a C-station (LRT) and take the train in.

This weekend I may mix it up a little and go for a cross-country ski trip or perhaps throw on some rollerskates (yes skates) and jump back to the 80's at Lloyd's.  Although I may try and do "the hill".  Cochrane is mostly in a valley. Now there is 4 ways to leave Cochtrane, but to leave the valley you need to bike up a hill in 3 directions, and in the fourth its a narrow road with minimal shoulders that takes you into the reservation.  So I have for 10 years been handicapped on my biking and have not done anything too significant.  So I may start to bike up the hill as far as I can make it and then turn around and come home, I am sure over time I'll build up the muscles and endurance to take on "the-hill"  aka hwy 1A that goes up to Glen Eagles.

Biking can be a very expensive sport, it just seems cheap!  Those accessories add up in no time and some of them are fairly important. Like the $50 bike lock.