{"id":52415,"date":"2017-06-07T07:15:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T14:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=52415"},"modified":"2017-06-07T07:15:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T14:15:59","slug":"first-bike-ride-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=52415","title":{"rendered":"First Bike Ride of the Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m trying to think back to the last time I biked to work. I am pretty sure it’s been almost 2 years. I was biking to work during my first trimester but then morning sickness hit and I wasn’t feeling well enough to do it. I did not bike to work last summer at all because I was hauling a giant breast pump to work every day.<\/p>\n

I’ve been thinking about getting back into it lately, but was struggling with how to figure out the logistics of dropping off Logan at daycare, trying to bike to work, picking him up, etc. We only have one bike rack (on Michael’s car) so I was trying to figure out the easiest way to do everything.<\/p>\n

Tuesday morning Michael took Logan to daycare and I took his car to Sellwood and biked from there.<\/p>\n

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It was a really nice ride! The weather was the right temperature, the sun was out. The Springwater trail wasn’t crowded. I realized I forgot my bike gloves at home, but of all the things you can forget that’s a minor one. The bike shoes (since I clip in) are the worst thing to forget!<\/p>\n

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I decided to skip the Hawthorne Bridge. I thought I was running late but I had enough time so I took the Eastside esplanade to the Steel Bridge and then crossed the river there.<\/p>\n

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It was nice and pretty easy. There were only a few times on the ride that my legs felt fatigued and the small hills were a little hard. But for a first ride after so long off? Not bad!<\/p>\n

This was the first time I used my new Garmin<\/a> on a bike ride. I wore my Polar to compare the calorie burn and it was really accurate!<\/p>\n\n\t\t