Some backroad cycling...

 Once again.. A perfect calorie burner and GREAT muscle builder for leg strength is using the mountain bike. Here in the valley we do not have many hills but we make up for it in brutal winds and lots and lots of land!  We trek the back roads, the canal banks and the levee system.  The perfect place to get lots of miles in without the danger of traffic.  Looks like we will be doing these more often in the off season because it makes our legs into canons. Thats all we need.

Here we go again...

Seems like every time I do something new, we do it over and over again.  For the past couple of months I have really been training hard nearly everyday on my road bike.  Waking up around 4:30 in the morning to get ready to do some hardcore interval training with my friends Mike, Sergio, and Billy "Breakaway" Flores has become a routine.  It has become not like a fun ride but just a "got to get up and get these miles done" kinda thing. 

Getting back on my mountain bike make me feel like I can breath again. A break from the monotonous routine.  New style of riding, no worries of traffic or lights, actually riding during the day!  

Today I called up all the buddies to go on our same backroad trek that we did yesterday.  Good to have fun people around me that enjoy getting out there like me.  Sure enough everyone showed up and out we went.  Billy, Cindy, Adrian and Arlene joined in the adventure.  As aways Billy and I turn it into a competition and start racing on our bikes.  We are so used to using our road bikes, which are tons faster, that we soon realize that gearing is definatly the reason why we go fast.  We were spinning like crazy going like 150 rpm on the crank!  It's exhausting... This is a crazy workout!  Fun Fun Fun! 

I tired billy out so bad that he nearly pissed his shorts. haha

We made it back right before sundown and called it a day.

Just keep on riding!

Went back road biking...

Got home today to get a call from my cousin Adrian.  He thinks I'm the expert at fixing things so he brought his mountain bike so I could check why his bike was clicking.  Put it up on the bike rack, grabbed myself a phillips screwdriver and tinkered away....  hahah  somehow I fixed it.  I've always been good at fixing things, my motto is if it was put together by someone before, why cant I do it!  Well being all excited that his bike was fixed I felt the need to pull out the old Schwinn and go for a quick ride. Quickly it turned from a cruise down the street to a full out "lets go off roading!" ride. 

 I love finding new paths that I have never taken and today was no exception. I wanted to get lost.  It's fun having the fear of not knowing where you are at, and if something happens how the hell are you gonna get out of it! 

All in all it was a great time with my bike out in the dirt fields. Calories burned. Success!