Oh what wonder, I am posting something!

 

I talked with my Dad on the WE. He said that my mom actually reads my blogs, which honoured me as much as it surprised me. Guess I should watch my d*mned language and stop using the "F" word so much. That may be hard, as I write on a spur of the moment exactly what I feel, and sometimes you cant get around saying the "F" word.

 

As I told my Dad, I bought a new bike, and am riding back and forth to work as often as I can. It is about 15km one way, so I get in 30km per day that I ride, which saves me !! 2.50 EURO a day in gas !!, helps me loose a bit of weight, my goal is to loose 15kg. Gets my condition conditioned and saves me a lot of anger with all those F*CKING German drivers. Not all of the anger, because now I REALLY have to keep my eyes open on the corners and intersections, but I would say that because I can take roads and bike trails where no cars are, it saves me about 80% problems and anger. If I could only put that in a piggy bank. Maybe a "bad bank"

 

I already drop 2.50 to 3.00 EURO into a bank for every day that I take the bike to work. I will use that money to buy rewards for myself and the family, such as, 5kg lost, we go eat ice cream, 10kg lost, we go eat steaks. My goal is to loose 15kg, and be fit enough to ride the bike from Ulm to the Bodensee (Lake Konstanz) in the fall. It is about 170km, and should take the better part of the day to get down there. Depending how fit I am, either ride the bike back, or take the car/train. I already did a test ride with my son last Sunday, 67km from Biberach to Ulm, took 3 hours as planned and was OK. But I was really pooped as we got home. I only really started riding the bike back and forth to work a week earlier. The hills at the start were hard, I had to go up really slow, but what goes up goes back down on the other side. What really cost me a lot of strength was the wind. There were stretches of 10-15km where we had steady front wind, and that just wore me down. I was really aching the last 12km, and was so glad to get home. Maybe next weekend we will do it again!

 

YO!