{"id":50755,"date":"2016-09-12T07:32:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T14:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=50755"},"modified":"2016-09-11T17:33:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T00:33:09","slug":"hey-i-biked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=50755","title":{"rendered":"Hey! I Biked!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s only been like 13 months!<\/p>\n

The last time I was on my bike was at the beginning of August last year. I think I was like two months pregnant by that time and even though I wasn’t really showing yet, it was definitely getting harder to bike to work like I had been doing. Morning sickness sucked. Then on the ride home my heart rate was getting too high and I just had to take too many breaks. Then my back went out<\/a>…so biking was pretty much over for the season.<\/p>\n

I thought about getting on the bike this summer but I never did. Honestly I don’t know that my core\/back was strong enough postpartum until now. I’ve been doing a lot of PT exercises and core exercises to strengthen my back and things have gotten a lot better.<\/p>\n

Anyways, Sunday instead of swimming I went for a bike ride. We had plans to go to Michael’s mom’s house for brunch and I (thankfully) got a chance to sleep in a little bit so I didn’t have time to swim.<\/p>\n

I got my bike down in the garage and dusted off the cobwebs (seriously, a lot of them) and both tires were flat. I pumped them up and let it sit for a bit while I got dressed and ready to go to make sure that they held air ok before I went out.<\/p>\n

Another plus side to wearing a cycling bib instead of shorts? They fit even if you are 20 pounds over your ideal weight!<\/p>\n

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It was a little chilly but once I got moving and out of the shade it was the perfect temperature. I biked the route I take into work.<\/p>\n

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I got stopped by the train for a few minutes but other than that I didn’t need to make many stops. I was surprised at how easy it felt being back on the bike (other than the saddle, of course). Perhaps the walking\/jogging I’ve been doing lately has gotten me back into shape for cycling.<\/p>\n

I didn’t go as far as I had wanted to go before I had to turn around. It was getting late and I still needed to go home and clean up and get Logan ready for brunch. So I turned around and went back the same way. And I was surprised, again, at how easy it was going up the killer hill home.<\/p>\n

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It doesn’t look like it but this hill is really long, slow and at a constant incline. It’s not incredibly steep but it’s steep enough to get your heart pounding and it’s a constant uphill climb so you never get to coast or really take a break. But this time it was incredibly easy for me to do.<\/p>\n

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It was a fantastic little ride. I went pretty hard for my first ride back because I was so short on time. I wanted to get my calorie bang for my buck.<\/p>\n

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I was glad I got in a good workout in the nice summer weather. We aren’t going to have many more of these kinds of days!<\/p>\n

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After that we went to brunch. There was a lot of tasty food for brunch. Michael’s mom made a cheesy potato casserole, an egg and meat breakfast casserole, fresh fruit, deviled eggs and blueberry scones.<\/p>\n

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And I had my first Bloody Mary in like a year and a half. \ud83d\ude42 Yay for brunch!<\/p>\n

Logan did great for his first brunch outing. And we got to show him off to some friends and family that haven’t met him yet.<\/p>\n

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It was a really good day and a good distraction for me. Monday is the first day of daycare for my little man! So the bike ride and brunch were good distractions … at least until the afternoon.<\/p>\n

I’m hoping I can go for a few more bike rides before the weather turns poor. I don’t see myself biking to work this year, though. There’s just too much stuff I have to take to work in order to pump. But by spring next year maybe I can get back into it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s only been like 13 months! The last time I was on my bike was at the beginning of August last year. I think I was like two months pregnant by that time and even though I wasn’t really showing yet, it was definitely getting harder to bike to work like I had been doing. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[8977,8413,39,9163,9211,3152,55,1248,1202,3632,95,101,104,107,6297,9164,1258,5425,2932],"tags":[8588,4385,2369,508,551,8627,9107,9146],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50765,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50755\/revisions\/50765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}