Well, it took a few years longer than I had imagined, but the bike is back!
I don’t feel particularly bikey today…. It’s sort of like I have a 99º fever or something. There’s nothing I can really put my finger on, but I’m happy to have the bike back and cross another excuse off of the Get More Exercise list.
When I worked at NET, I used a terrific keep-track-of-your-walking app on my iPhone. It would play podcasts I had selected, or music, and announce the time at intervals I selected. It would also keep track of me and where I’d been and how fast I was going (how did the ancient mariner get anywhere without GPS?). And as a kind of a coach, it would announce periodically, “You are thirty-eight seconds ahead of your best time” or “You are four seconds behind your average time”. It was great, but I don’t remember now what it was called. I know the company make a hiker and a biker version, and I hope to get that installed this weekend, too.
Also, when I was active last I had a bike computer, a CatEye Solar, which calculated my average cadence RPM, average speed, highest speed, and miles traveled in total and for this trip. It might have done a few other things, too. But these days, everything is done on the iPhone, so I need to get some kind of a mount to put my phone on the headset, the part that connects the handlebars to the parts that hold the front wheel.
I really want this to work. I could imagine losing another twenty pounds by Christmas if I work at it.
