{"id":4096,"date":"2010-03-22T17:35:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=4096"},"modified":"2010-03-22T18:12:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T16:12:10","slug":"project-fatass-heads-into-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/4096","title":{"rendered":"Project Fatass Heads Into Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that I have finally broken the 50 lbs lost<\/a> point and Project Fatass has made it through winter<\/a>, it\u2019s time to move on to another goal.\u00a0 I won\u2019t say what it is because I\u2019m still too embarrassed by the numbers, but it\u2019s 8 lbs away.\u00a0 Sound easy, right?\u00a0 Yeah, not really.\u00a0 Having already done 50 lbs another 8 lbs should be a breeze.\u00a0 Except, it\u2019s not.\u00a0 I\u2019m stuck.\u00a0 I\u2019ve not been going to the gym like I should be because, well\u2026 I just don\u2019t like it!\u00a0 I hate exercising for the sake of exercise and I don\u2019t like an audience.\u00a0 I thought I could get over it and become one of those gym bunnies, but that’s not gonna happen.\u00a0 If I am going to exercise it will be at home or out doing something fun that makes me momentarily forget that I\u2019m actually working out.\u00a0 I still have the gym membership and want to try to go, but if I don\u2019t get myself there I need to find other things to do instead.<\/p>\n

Today Sheldon The Wonder Fiets<\/a> and I went off exploring.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t sure how far I was going to go or how long I\u2019d last, but I went prepared.<\/p>\n

\"bikebasket\"<\/a><\/p>\n

My bag, my point and shoot camera and a bottle of water.\u00a0 Let\u2019s roll!!<\/p>\n

My mission was to find out if there was anywhere relatively close to home where I could bike sort of off the beaten path.\u00a0 Not like through the mud type of off the beaten path, but more like out of the path of cars, trucks and trams.\u00a0 Living in the city means biking in the city, not something I\u2019ve been a big fan of in the past.\u00a0 So I wanted to see if I could find an area where I could bike without worrying about intersections, traffic or a lot of other cyclists.<\/p>\n

\"path\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I found it!\u00a0 About five minutes from home there is an area where I can cycle to my hearts content.\u00a0 I reached a cross ways and had a choice of where to go, left or right.\u00a0 I chose left because I saw a tunnel under the motorway (which meant hill) to the right.\u00a0 I may have been out biking, but don\u2019t be fooled, the lazy is still strong in this one, people!<\/p>\n

It turned out the path on the left wasn\u2019t all that long so after a while I had to do some city biking. \u00a0It wasn\u2019t so bad and I didn\u2019t mind exploring a bit.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t able to cycle as leisurely in the city as I was out on this path, so next time I\u2019m definitely taking the path on the right, tunnel and all.\u00a0 I had a look on Google Maps and that path appears to go on for much much longer.<\/p>\n

Speaking of\u00a0 Google Maps<\/a>, while I was out I tested out a new application I got for my phone.\u00a0 It\u2019s called My Tracks<\/a>, which works beautifully on my HTC Hero<\/a>.\u00a0 I started recording my tracks before leaving my house and turned it off when I got home.\u00a0\u00a0 When I\u2019m done I can upload it to Google Maps and Google Docs to keep track of how far I bike, the speed etc.\u00a0 This can also be done for any other mode of transportation if you want to keep track of where you\u2019ve gone.<\/p>\n

\"biketracks\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Almost 10.5 kms!\u00a0 Look at me and my bad biking self! \u00a0Not a far distance for a lot of the people who live here and bike regularly, but for me it is. It SO is. \u00a0My ass isn\u2019t even all that sore, surprisingly, so it seems I\u2019ve managed to break it in!<\/p>\n

As fate would have it, I hit two of those tunnel hills on my way back around and mother of god they just about killed me.\u00a0 I pedaled as fast as my little legs would go before I hit the downward hill, building up speed so that I could fly down one side and get a boost going up the other, and then WHAM!!\u00a0 Tunnel wind!\u00a0 It was like hitting a brick wall and any speed I built up came to a screeching halt.\u00a0 I huffed and puffed into the amplified winds and it was almost a relief to go up the hill on the other side, just because I was out of the tunnel.<\/p>\n

Nobody told me about tunnel winds! \u00a0Why didn\u2019t anyone warn me about tunnel winds?!\u00a0 Argggh!<\/p>\n

The worst one was just around the corner from home and by the time I got up the other side you\u2019d think I was doing an iron man or something.\u00a0 I was wheezing and panting like they were my last breaths and then feebly pedaled the last few hundred meters home.<\/p>\n

People often ask me why I don\u2019t bike into town to other places to meet people.\u00a0 Here\u2019s why\u2026<\/p>\n

\"redface\"<\/a><\/p>\n

RED FACED MUCH?!!<\/p>\n

After getting off the bike and forcing my gumby legs up three flights of stairs, I was shaking so badly I could hardly get the camera to stay still to take this photo.\u00a0 I\u2019m smiling, but it was all for show.\u00a0 Inside I was pretty sure this was the last photo anyone would ever see of me alive and for my mother’s sake I wanted to at least look<\/em> like I died happy.<\/p>\n

Dieting and losing weight is hard, and after losing 50 lbs it\u2019s no more fun than when it started.\u00a0 Carrying around almost almost two entire people worth of weight makes everything twice as difficult.\u00a0 I spent 35 years eating for both of them and now I have to exercise for both of them too. \u00a0Karma really is<\/em> a bitch. \u00a0Only one of us is getting out of this alive though, \u00a0and it\u2019s not going to be that fat cow I\u2019ve been carrying around with me all these years.<\/p>\n

Now I just need another sunny day so I can find out what is on the path to the right\u2026 other than more tunnel wind, I mean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that I have finally broken the 50 lbs lost point and Project Fatass has made it through winter, it\u2019s time to move on to another goal.\u00a0 I won\u2019t say what it is because I\u2019m still too embarrassed by the numbers, but it\u2019s 8 lbs away.\u00a0 Sound easy, right?\u00a0 Yeah, not really.\u00a0 Having already done …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[410,64,401,33,73,349,877],"class_list":["post-4096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-weightloss","tag-biking","tag-changes","tag-exercise","tag-netherlands","tag-rotterdam","tag-weight-loss","tag-weightloss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4096"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4103,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions\/4103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}