It was raining all night and into this morning, so my inaugural ride on my new virgin pedals has to wait until tomorrow. The wet streets aren't very conducive to my style of riding, namely turning corners at a high rate of speed and at a 45° angle. My city slicker tires were made for speed not for traction, so there's very little tread on them. Apparently treads slow you down.
According to some cyclists, everything slows you down, they buy everything according to grams. The lightest bike, the lightest components, the lightest shoes and pedals, they buy the lightest tires and tubes all to save grams and make themselves faster. Save a gram here and save a gram there, it all adds up... but they always seem to ignore the extra 10 or 20 lbs. around their middle... and I'm just as guilty.
I'm slowly moving away from all this lightweight fragile stuff in favor of equipment that is durable and reliable... these carbon and titanium products are expensive and are so light you have to replace them more often... give me something that will last me awhile... I'm through trying to make my ride a few grams lighter, I think it's better and cheaper to make the engine a few pounds lighter.
Speaking of which... I updated my stats this morning... I lost 8 lbs. this week, don't get excited it was mostly water weight from all my partying and celebrations last week... so I'm down to 190.6 lbs. today. My body fat is still way too high at just over 20% and I need to get that closer to 10%... I'll be working on that until my next vacation in September, when I'll probably be loose with my diet once more, it's a vicious cycle.
It's back to work for me tonight, everybody else enjoy your weekend!!
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