Afternoon bike ride

January 6, 2010, 10:14 pm

My bike ride this afternoon started off nice, but then turned into a bit of a struggle. It wasn’t very cold and the wind was easy when I started, heading east to Cross Road and then north towards the Altamont. The climb got steeper on Flynn Road, and the stiff headwind combined with my lack […]

January 6th, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Outdoors | Leave a comment

Bike riding

January 4, 2010, 8:39 pm

This afternoon I took my first bike ride of 2010—32 miles to Peet’s Coffee at the Gale Ranch shopping center on Bollinger Canyon road. Last year (2009) I didn’t start seriously riding until the end of March, but ended the year with a little over 2500 miles. Perhaps this year I’ll ride a little more. […]

January 4th, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Outdoors | Leave a comment

Caffeine and exercise

April 21, 2009, 9:07 am

As reported in the Science Daily News, former competitive cyclist and University of Illinois kinesiology and community health professor Robert Motl has investigated for a few years the effect caffeine has on athletes. In a recent study published in the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, he shows that coffee (2 to 3 […]

April 21st, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Outdoors | One comment
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