Trails and a ride report...

I had a pretty good week this week. I was able to walk every day at lunch at work plus one night of "exercise," a Zwift ride, a "hike", then this weekend, I did go hiking up the trail nearest my house and today got in a ride on my Cx bike.

I wish I had more time for riding, but I'm finding that it's probably doing me as much good just to get the walking and hiking in. Now is the time of year I get restless sitting and spinning on the trainer, but I can foresee that being a necessity one or two evenings this week. I'm already planning an after work walk/hike on Tuesday. I don't like riding after work right now because traffic gets stupid and I'm just not fast enough or confident enough to stay out of the way, so Zwift will probably be the answer.

I am still struggling to figure out what to do for my glutes and abductors to get them stronger. I probably should do some more stuff with my resistance bands. At this moment, I'm honestly tired and don't feel like doing anything else. My ride today was on my Cx bike and took me a bit farther away from home. I also challenged myself to climb Lick Run GW. I made it - it felt good to climb up it. I just kept a steady cadence. Next thing I knew I was at the top.

I kind of feel like I need to challenge myself a bit more, but feel like the better idea will be to do so with my mountain bike. I may try to hit some fireroads soon. We will see.

I enjoyed my hike yesterday - I knew it would be hard because the trail I went on is a bit of a burden to climb and gets steeper at the top. I was rewarded by the view of the Cove. One of these days I'll hike on down the other side. Round trip it will be 4 miles and 2 "giant" climbs. I'll also have to fork out money for the day use pass. Chances are I wouldn't get stopped once I pass the sign, but I'd rather be honest about it.

So I forgot to tell you about the trail near work. One of my coworkers had told my PIC (partner in crime) about it. Since it finally dried up, we headed over to check it out. Turns out it's a pretty cool loop trail and from our building to the loop and back winds up being about a 1.3 mile walk. We really did enjoy it. This will be on our list quite a bit I think. On the days we just walk around the exterior of our buildings, we get in about 1.2 miles - there's plenty of options and now that the weather is playing nicer, we are getting out every chance we get. Great way to spend lunches.