Discovered my favorite bike route doesn’t burn enough calories. I’d like to burn around 500.
Here’s the favorite. It’s shaped like a dog. Burns 250 cals in 40 mins. Not enough.
Here’s a new route I took today. Shaped like uh.. 300 cals in 1 hour. Hmm. Well. I need to double this. Maybe tomorrow.
“Early to bed, early to rise, ..” Bla, bla. I am still poor and dumb. But there are a couple upsides for me.
First: no guilt. Sleeping in made me feel guilty. The whole world was up and cranking except for me. Sure I had sufficient sleep and they didn’t, and I was really productive in the evenings, but it just didn’t ever sit totally well with me. Especially at the start of the day. I was in this pattern for years. Waking early completely eliminates this guilt.
Second: I am more active, thus more healthy. The hard part is physically getting out of bed. It helps to remind myself that my health isn’t free. I have to work at it. It also helps that I look forward to feeling pumped up and happy with my appearance. Waking early affords me a daily workout before work.
The good news is that my day started early, so it ended early, so I got in a bike ride before sunset. On a weekday. That makes today the first weekday of the new season of biking. The time changes next week, I am a week early. Woohoo.
The bad news is that my favorite bike route, which takes 40 minutes, only burns 250 calories. That makes the stationary bike more efficient, burning around 450 cals in 45 minutes. Plus it’s fat zone burning.
Real biking has a more random heart rate, going up and down hills. As such, the burn keeps going even after the workout and might actually get to 350 calories total.
It’s a hit worth taking in my opinion. The air and scenery is quite refreshing. Maybe I’ll find a longer route. No way I’m stationary biking instead of real biking. Fresh air or stanky old gym? Hmm. Yeah, no contest.
Somebody knows me.
Had a morning of productivity. It was overcast but not too cold. Brought a good camera to kill some time with.
