My bike lost 5 pounds...why can't I?

Week 6: April 6-12

Bike: 132 km
Run: 17 km
Swim: 2750 m

Week 7: April 13-19

Bike: 75 km
Run: 26 km
Swim: 3000 m

The bike renovations of my mountain bike were completed this week with two new wheels. More important then the improvement in looks, my bicycle also lost 5 pounds. I have to say, this is the easiest 5 pounds I've ever lost - it required no dieting and no exercise. I used to mock the people who paid $500 for carbon fiber cranksets, I used to preach that if I wanted to lose 500 grams off my bike I'd stop eating chocolate truffles everyday. Consider me converted - I am on the bandwagon! Screw dieting (or even eating responsibility), bring on the carbon fiber bottle cages, helmets and bike bells. For approximately $200/pound I can shed weight faster than ever. I figure as long as my loving husband continues to foot the bills, I'll end up with the lightest bikes in the Yukon. Unfortunately, nothing to date suggests that I will be any faster on said bikes, but that's a small detail at this point.

Last week the bike riding was interrupted when Spring was rudely interrupted by a dumping of fresh snow. I was not the only Whitehorse resident that was unimpressed by the return of winter, many other people saw fit to voice their concerns by crashing their vehicles. I just pouted and temporarily retired the road bicycle. The only thing convincing me that Spring was still on its way was the garbage bags full of dog hair that were spontaneously falling from Strabuck's body. Thankfully Starbuck's shedding was right and by Sunday the snow was gone and the highway was ready to ride again.

The blog will be temporarily photo free thanks to an unfortunate incident with a camera and cement floor...damn that gravity.

Sierra posted this on Apr 21, 2008 from the gym | | permanent link