Finding Radiance

Dang what a day.  This was a long tough ride! The plan was for 80ish miles today.  We got up early and had a nice breakfast.  I decided to have some banana custard oats to fuel up. Topped with Teddie peanut butter and strawberry jam.  I also had 1.5 cups of almond milk.  Approximately 500 [...]

Saturday is long ride day.  I puttered around waiting to eat for a while.  Saturday mornings are so nice and quiet!  When I got around to breakfast, I filled up with some banana custard oats. John decided he didn’t want a really long ride today as he was feeling tired, so I decided to take [...]

Woke up to a nice morning for breakfast on the porch today!  I made some protein waffles and did a fun sandwich combo out of them.  I mashed a banana and put it in between the waffles and topped with the last of the chocolate homemade fluff. Very, very good! Then I got caught up [...]

First off, thank you all so much for your comments on my 100-pound anniversary.  Nothing like tooting your own horn, right?   Guess that is what a blog is all about. So, yesterday was a really long bike ride and I needed to decompress last night, so I saved the recap until today. We wanted [...]

Doesn’t metric century sound so much more than 60 miles?  Woke up to a gorgeous day today and a fabulous bowl of oats. Pumpkin custard oats sweetened with molasses, fresh cranberries (okay, frozen), and topped with toasted pecans. That and some coffee seemed like a good starter fuel for a long bike ride! We packed [...]

Thank you all for the nice comments on my hair.  It’s going to take some getting used to again.  A year ago my hair was about this length.  It grew a lot! I had a nice carby breakfast to get ready for the bike ride today.  Banana custard oats topped with some of that fresh [...]

(I forgot to hit ‘publish’ last night   ) Today was a run day.  Too cold to go in the upper 20s when I first got up, so I had breakfast first I worked for a while until the temp hit 39 degrees and headed out.  Pre run fuel: The addiction is still alive and [...]

I’ve been wearing the GoWear fit since Monday afternoon. I slept with it on as well. You just can’t wear it in the shower. So, I have had a continuous monitoring of my activities.Here is Tuesday’s calorie burn: You can see where I get up and do exercise first thing in the morning. Breakfast making [...]