I woke up at 5 this morning as I’ve been doing for the past
few weeks and went for my morning walk.
I walk/jog 3-4 miles depending on what I feel like doing, or really it
depends on how good the book that I’m listening to is or how bad I want to get
through it. I’m not too excited about the book that I’m listening to so the
walk was shorter, besides it was windy. It was windy all night and was still
windy when I went walking. I’d say the winds were something like 10mph probably
stronger, but I’ll keep my guess safe as the actual speed in my area – the
weather at the airport recorded wind speeds of 20-40 miles an hour at the time
of my walk and it’s not more than 10 miles away (point being it was windy). Took
a trip to the Asian market, which is always fun, and got a few things for
several soups that we like. Have I mentioned I like soups? When we got home, my
mother in law had prepared some…guess what…soup! Some pea soup. It was
delicious!
The highlight of this
day again was riding with my kids. We went out again and they were much more
confident today than yesterday – maybe a bit too confident. My oldest son face-planted into some sand. He
came roaring down a hill and I imagine he thought that he would be able to go
through the sand or slow down easily in it because yesterday the sand was a bit
more wet from rain and he had gone through some short patches of it, but he
went about 10 ft started took a swerve left, corrected right in the shifty sand
and KuhFWAhP! It took a few seconds for the pain to set in of having his
handlebar jabbing him in the abdomen but it did. Luckily my wife and mother in
law were strolling around in the park when it happened and came to calm him
down. After spitting out all of the sand in his mouth and getting it out of his
hair and off his face he calmed down and in a few minutes he was riding around
again – but now making sure to steer clear of the sand. Big time kudos to him
for get back on and riding. Earlier he had told me that he fell off somewhere
that I hadn’t seen but said it was not big deal because stuff like that happens
in life, but you just have to get up and keep going. I do believe that is
pretty sound advice from a child.
Mostly we’ve been
riding around on grass, which I know is difficult to ride on, but I’m thinking
about the long term here – they’re building up some great strength pushing
those pedals to trudge through the grass so once we do hit up some bike paths
and easy dirt roads, it’s going to be super easy for them. They actually know that it’s harder (they
first learned on blacktop), but I think they feel more comfortable on the grass
for now. Plus it’s more fun to go fun to go up and down hills. As long as
they’re having fun, I’m having fun! And
having fun on a bike usually means that I’m not going to be stressed or
depressed or gaining weight. Bada-bing Bada-boom.
Time for a recovery sleep – got to do some drivin’ tomorrow
that I wasn’t expecting. Ride on!
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