{"id":47442,"date":"2015-07-13T07:01:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T14:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=47442"},"modified":"2015-07-08T12:07:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T19:07:22","slug":"the-whole-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=47442","title":{"rendered":"The Whole Way!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m trying to remember last summer…it was honestly a blur of chaos and wedding planning and details. I remember my brain feeling “full” all the time. Full of details, worries, excitement, planning…I was also going to the Warrior Room a lot. And cycling kind of took a back seat to everything else. My knees just weren’t ready for long rides and I don’t think I ever biked the entire commute. I *think* I stuck with the park and ride and biked from there. Honestly I didn’t mind. Like I said, my life was full and I just couldn’t add anything else. This summer? My hope was that I could go back to biking from home and doing it more than once a week.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t sure if my healing back injury would let me but like I said in last week’s post<\/a>, my body was feeling pretty good and I was feeling like biking from the park and ride wasn’t challenging enough. Due to a scheduling conflict with Michael (he needed the car on the day I wanted to ride) I decided to move up my timeline and bike from home a week earlier than I’d planned.<\/p>\n

It was a little cool but the afternoon was supposed to be 90 degrees so I didn’t want to put on tights and a jacket. I wore my arm warmers and decided to wear my compression socks because they go to my knees. It was a better option than wearing heaving pants\/jacket but it looked rather silly. Oh well.<\/p>\n

It was a bit hard to bike from home but I was feeling okay. Fatigued, but okay. The minor hills got my heart racing and I was a little slower than I was in the past, but it was my first time.<\/p>\n

I saw a deer on the Springwater trail! Unfortunately I was going too fast to stop in time and take a picture. Next time.<\/p>\n

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This time I biked on the new path (it was closed last summer) that went by the Opera House. The path is really nice!<\/p>\n

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I also got a close-up view of the new bridge. It it supposed to be open this Fall for walkers, bikers and the new Max line. I crossed the Hawthorne Bridge and made it to work.<\/p>\n

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\nMorning Stats:<\/em><\/strong><\/span>
\nTime: 52 minutes<\/em><\/strong><\/span>
\nDistance: 11.56<\/em><\/strong><\/span>
\nCalories Burned: 515<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I like that burn! During my lunch break I went for a short walk (just under 2 miles). It was so nice outside but starting to get a little warm. Okay, now the food.<\/p>\n

Breakfast<\/strong>: 2 fried eggs, a slice of Walnut Sourdough bread toasted with butter and apple cactus jam, unsweetened iced tea and coffee with creamer when I got to work. Calories: 394<\/em><\/p>\n

Snack<\/strong>: My new favorite snack. Cottage cheese and blueberries. Calories: 118<\/em><\/p>\n

Lunch<\/strong>: Lean Cuisine (chicken with rice, veggies and almonds) and some yogurt covered pretzels. Calories: 385<\/em><\/p>\n

Snack<\/strong>: Baby carrots and sugar snap peas with Laughing Cow cheese and a 90 calorie fruit bar from Trader Joe’s.\u00a0Calories: 172<\/em><\/p>\n

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Afternoon Ride<\/span><\/h4>\n

Michael gave me the option to ride part way and hitch a ride home with him if I didn’t feel up to biking home the whole way. I was slightly tempted, but I really wanted to try biking the whole way home.<\/p>\n

It went really well and wasn’t too uncomfortably hot. I was pretty close to home when I got stopped by this:<\/p>\n

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Yep, train. And it was about a 5 minute wait for it to go by. At least it was in the shade. I should have taken the shortcut that goes around the train intersection…next time.<\/p>\n

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Despite the train, it didn’t take me that long to get home, even though I felt like I was really slow and I took a lot of water breaks.<\/p>\n

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Afternoon\u00a0Stats:<\/em><\/strong><\/span>
\nTime: 51 minutes<\/em><\/strong><\/span>
\nDistance:\u00a011.18
\n<\/em><\/strong><\/span>Total Distance:\u00a022.74\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span>
\nCalories Burned:\u00a0509<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I was STARVING when I got home. I had some tortilla chips while I made dinner (seriously wanted to eat everything in sight). Dinner<\/strong> was a big salad with green leaf lettuce, spinach, avocado, orange and yellow peppers, carrots, sunflower seeds, feta cheese, blueberries, 4 ounces baked chicken and vinaigrette dressing. Calories: 671<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nIt was a really filling dinner and good for a hot day. Dessert was some vanilla ice cream topped with fresh blackberries picked from my yard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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