cycling2:12:49 22.85 mi (5:49 / mi) +724m5:17 / mi ahr:112 max:168 slept:6.5 weight:161.4lbs
The plan here was to get some hills in our legs, and to leave from the house, head across the dam and up around through Hartland and home. Rhonda was pretty rattled by some of the downhills, particularly coming down Devil's elbow and then coming down 219 in traffic, so that when we got to the dam she decided she didn't want to go to Hartland after all. Instead we took a loop around the river from PV, then headed back up and over the dam, along the E side of Lake McDonough, then up Ratlum Rd in New Hartford past Ski Sundown. By around Ski Sundown she was thinking that wasn't so great either, so the deal was that she would muddle along, I would go home and get the car, come looking for her. Turns out she walked more or less from Ski Sundown up the big hills, including the Devil's elbow, and wasn't all that far behind me.
2 PM
PT exercises1:00:00 [3]
all the exercises, a little harder today after the bike ride.
cycling1:24:43 19.94 mi (4:15 / mi) +357m4:02 / mi ahr:129 max:160 slept:8.0 weight:159.8lbs
With Rhonda from PV. Somehow hard to fit these rides in these days. We were going to go yesterday, but then I needed to repair the brush mower and that took longer than I expected.
I also missed yoga class this morning. Woke up in time, but decided another hour of sleep would be more beneficial.
12 PM
Other20 [1]
10 ring pullups - saw that J-J did them the other day, thought I should, too. I often do 5 or 6 if I am walking by the rings that hang from the linden tree, but haven't done 10 in a while.
3 PM
Note
golf outing at Blue Fox with my old friend Tom Noonan, who still hits booming drives and irons. Had my first birdie of the season, and so presumably of quite a few seasons, hitting a 3 wood to about 8 feet on the 193 yd 2nd hole. Awesome. The rest of the round a bit pedestrian, but nice company.
My forester Jim wanted to borrow the brush mower, so I needed to fix it so he could (and also because I want to use it myself). This is the new mower I bought a few months ago, and somehow the spindle housing failed - just a bad weld and it let go. They sent a new one under warranty. I suppose if I had all the tools lined up, it would have taken about half an hour to swap it out. There is a bolt that holds the belt pulley on top of the spindle and a bolt that holds the blade on the bottom. To get the one off the pulley I had the bright idea of blocking the blade and pulling against it, but that just resulted in loosening the blade. What to do? After some thinking I recalled that I have an impact wrench that came with my compressor when I bought it about 15 or so years ago. I even could find it, secure in the box it came in, never used. It made short work of the job. Excellent. Then about 8 or so other bolts, some in tight places, and got it together with one pulley in the wrong place, so back it all out and do it over, and eventually it worked. The whole operation ended up running about 2:45, so there went the afternoon bike ride.