Loving the bile

I'm up to about eight miles on the bike now, determined to get back into shape. I'm actually enjoying it. The course I've been riding has some hills, but nothing huge. I do go off the trail at one or two places to go uphill, and my goal is to make it up to the Blue Ridge Parkway from Bent Creek. It's about two miles uphill. It's not going to happen in the next week or two, but I'm up to over a quarter mile and working on it. It's much harder on a bike than it is on foot.

In fact, I've discovered hills I didn't know were there. They're easy enough to walk because they're gradual, but I feel them on the bike.

I got talked into the Chamber Challenge 5K next week. I walked it last year in 90-degree weather. I'll walk it again, but I hope it isn't 90 degrees again. That about did me in. I walked with John Boyle, and we finished and we weren't in last place. That's good enough for me.

Our team is the Inkblobs, and the other three are walkers. Looks like John Boyle and I will walk together again.