{"id":42724,"date":"2014-05-20T08:22:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T15:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=42724"},"modified":"2014-05-19T10:23:59","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T17:23:59","slug":"ice-ice-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=42724","title":{"rendered":"Ice Ice Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>90 Degrees! Woohoo! Apparently the sunshine followed me home from Las Vegas. The weather was wonderful most of last week. I got in another bike ride to work. Man, this might become a weekly thing! One can hope.<\/p>\n<p>It was around 60 degrees when I biked halfway into work last Wednesday. I wore my sleeveless bike jersey and arm warmers and honestly didn&#8217;t need the arm warmers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cycle3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42725\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cycle3.jpg\" alt=\"cycle3\" width=\"655\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cycle3.jpg 655w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cycle3-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The temperature was perfect. I parked the car a little further away from the Springwater Trail this time around. Each week I&#8217;ll park further away and eventually will bike from home (I hope).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cycle1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-42727\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cycle1-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"cycle1\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cycle1-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cycle1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe mileage in the morning was a little more, so that&#8217;s cool. My knees were a bit sore and achy for most of the morning. I&#8217;m not sure what that was about&#8230;was it the run I did on Tuesday? Was I just tight and sore? Did I push it too hard on the bike? (I had to remind myself to slow down several times.) Or was it just a &#8220;bad knee day&#8221;? Not sure. I iced my knees a few times at work and tried to take it easy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cycle2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-42726\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cycle2-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"cycle2\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cycle2-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cycle2.jpg 368w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The day got hotter and hotter and it was 90 degrees when it was time to go home. I had 2 water bottles with me and took it easy. But honestly, it&#8217;s a short ride back to the car in the afternoon so it&#8217;s not too bad. I went slow&#8211;the heat made it impossible to go very fast, so that was good!<\/p>\n<p>Even though it was 90 degrees it wasn&#8217;t uncomfortable. Thank you Vegas for conditioning me to hot weather! It wasn&#8217;t such a shocker. I got back to the car in no time at all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/biking1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-42735\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/biking1-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"biking1\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/biking1-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/biking1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I was happy that I had no knee issues on the ride home or afterwards. My IT Bands were slightly tighter than normal (and they are usually tight) so there was that. I used the foam roller and stretched before bed. I should have stretched more than I did and when I first got home. I REALLY need to be better about that!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/biking2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-42734\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/biking2-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"biking2\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/biking2-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/biking2.jpg 368w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI was famished! Increased cardio does that for me. For dinner I made rice and green beans and curry shrimp. I love this dinner. It&#8217;s so filling and it makes me feel healthy and satisfied. Dinner was quick and easy, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shrimp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42784\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shrimp.jpg\" alt=\"shrimp\" width=\"923\" height=\"692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shrimp.jpg 923w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shrimp-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 923px) 100vw, 923px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My knees were tight and sore the next few days, which didn&#8217;t make me happy. In fact it make me very grumpy and sad that I had a flare up after so many months of doing well. I&#8217;m not sure what happened. Maybe it was biking several weeks in a row after not biking for months. Maybe it&#8217;s my clip-in shoes (I&#8217;ve been thinking about switching back to the shoe cages to see if there is a difference). Or maybe it&#8217;s just that I&#8217;ve been doing more cardio and less weight lifting like I&#8217;d been doing all winter long. That could be contributing to weaker glutes which leads to knee pain for me. I&#8217;m going to try a few things and see what helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>90 Degrees! Woohoo! Apparently the sunshine followed me home from Las Vegas. The weather was wonderful most of last week. I got in another bike ride to work. Man, this might become a weekly thing! One can hope. It was around 60 degrees when I biked halfway into work last Wednesday. 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