Bird droppings

Today's the third day in a row that I've ridden my bike to work.
Tuesday: ~5 miles to work, then given a ride to parmonster's place.
Wednesday: ~5 miles to work, ~2 miles to Planet Granite, 1 mile to Coco's, ~8 miles back to home: Total: ~16 miles. (Actual odometer read 15.3 miles)
Today: ~5 miles to work. I plan to bike to downtown Mountain View to meet up with elphie and then head home from there. It's mostly the same route I take to work, so I'm guessing maybe another 6 or 7 miles today when it is all said and done. I should have about ~11-12 miles on my bike today.

What's amazing me is the ease with which I am handling this. Could it really be the case that the reason that I wasn't active for most of my life was primarily due to asthma? And now that I have an inhaler, I can handle this stuff without a problem? My hiking and biking have improved so much now that I can actually *breathe* when doing it. I did an ~8 mile hike in the desert with only foot pain to worry about (I really need to get my Vibram Five Finger shoes!). The ~8 mile bike ride home from CoCo's was a bit long, but what bothered me on that was the cold of the night, not the ride itself. Although when I got in, I was completely exhausted.

What's really annoying, though, is that I don't appear to be losing any weight yet. I'm not eating too terribly much, but looking through what I ate yesterday, it did come out to around 2000 calories. I should probably get back to the calorie counting and reduce it down to 1700 or so. I *did* try 1500 or 1300 for a few days, but to keep up with that is quite challenging. I really need to write an iphone app to help me track this info, or just find one that already exists.

Anyways... good biking! I'm going to keep trying to avoid using my car for the next few weeks. See how much I can accomplish without the car. I know I'll need the car on Saturday when I go fly model airplanes with dana_grrl, but we shall see what other events I *really* need it for.