I noticed that it’s been a little bit since I posted. The main reason for that is that I pretty much took the week off last week. After Sunday, I only did commutes. It wasn’t the original plan, but things got a little hectic at the lab and next thing I know it’s Saturday. I took Saturday off too since it felt like I hadn’t had a day to do absolutely nothing in a very long time.
This Sunday, I hopped back on the bike. I wasn’t planning on going far. I just wanted to get my 3 miles TT in for Jumbo’s challenge. I’m pretty proud of how well I’m doing in his challenge so far. I started at the beginning of July at 255 pounds and now I’m down to 244. My TT last month was 11:30, and this month it was 10:24. 
And that was after taking the whole week off and the first I thing was beat myself into submission.
Today finally got me back in the swing of things as far as regular cycling went. I commuted to the lab as usual, then left around 7:30 and did my ~11 mile loop home. I did it in 51 minutes too today, which means that my average speed is going up. Instead of working on distance riding, which I had been trying to do pretty much since I started, I’m going to work on shorter, faster rides and see where I can get. I’d love it if I started thinking of 15 mph as a slow pace.
As a final note for today, I finally surpassed the 20,000 mark for calories burned this month. I think that’s pretty cool.
