Exercising Journey

  I have not been updating the blog much because life is busy for me right now. I have been getting out every weekend with the kids for the last few weeks of summer to ride bikes and explore the surrounding area. The past few rides have been fairly long with them and they are really enjoying it. We stop in the tunnels to look at the graffiti and my daughter liked the "funny looking dog" which is the character Gir from the show Invader Zim. I had to take a picture of it becuase I thought it was such an odd thing to tag on a wall. I know they had a new movie in the past few years but I did not think the show was still popular enough to get spray painted on a wall. Anyway we are also exploring new places we can stop off at like the park in the woods we saw.  I say in the woods but that is not quite accurate. The park is along a multi use path but its not a park you could get to easily by car I don't think so it would mostly be people walking to it or biking to it. The past f...

  I have been using the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra for a few weeks now and I have some thoughts on it and the updates that came wih Samsung health when I got the watch. I had the older Watch 5 Pro and loved it after just liking the prior Galaxy watch I was using for a few years. The watch 5 had nothing really wrong with it just felt like it was time for an upgrade and I figured I was getting more into my fitness so the ultra looked like a very good upgrade.  I do not have large wrists so and the size difference on the watch 5 and this watch ultra is not too bad but to be honest both look a little overkill on my wrist like they are very much too big looking for my wrist. Either way it does not bother me to wear a large watch and I don't much care what people think about it so I do not mind the large size. What I don't care much for is the wristband that I picked. I got the one with holes I think it is the water band or something like that. It looks fine from the right side but ...

  I am having a much slower week and not exercising nearly as much as I would like to. I have only gotten out once this week for a lunch ride and work is too busy to try to get out again but that is fine for now I am still on the diet and its not like I am gaining weight or losing any of my ability to ride so I am taking this as a bit of a rest week. I was not feeling the best the other day and that has not changed a ton but riding my bike and remembering what I used to look like compared to now is making me feel a lot better.  I made a threads post the other day about using a selfie tripod to take photos of myself while on a ride and figured maybe one or two people might respond and I am very supprised at the amount of responses I have gotten on that post. More likes than I though I would get from a post as well. Now I did not mean it to be engagement bait I really did want to know peoples thoughts but I am awful at responding to people I have fine reading comprehension ...

 Over the past few months I have been getting myself in better shape and I have been blogging about it along the way but I have been keeping some things to myself as sometimes its hard to write things down like it makes them more real or worse than they are when you write them down or tell other people. I love being on the journey I am on right now to exercise often and lose weight. My life in general is not bad I don't have many problems and things are fairly good. Not that there are no down sides there are. When telling someone that you sometimes have a hard time doing anything becuase it all seems so pointless and useless everyone seems to always end up pointing to all the good things you have and lack of problems you have as if that is going to make you feel all better and motivated to do things again. I know it comes from a place of love but when people say that to me I just end up feeling worse about myself. I have all this good stuff and yet I still would rather just do...

  I started to take my kids with me on the bike rides! I was not sure at first what was going to happen when I decided to put them in The Charriot but they were very good with it. My daughter wanted to go as far as we could go and my son was happy to be outside getting the fresh air. He hates his helmet and kept trying to get it off though so I need a better helmet for him. He is only a 1 year old so he does not know why he has to have it on and he just knows he does not like it.  There are a few very good things about taking them on the rides with me. One of those things being it puts a lot of load on the bike and that makes me have to work harder to keep a good pace for a ride. I can not just coast along the bike will just stop if I do that so I have to keep pushing the pedals down to get anywhere. This would be a bad thing but I could use the extra effort sometimes to make sure that I am still progressing in the journey. Putting more power into the bike means more exer...

I ended up recording my ride today and I think the recording came out okay. It is not a vlog it is just a simple recording with no audio as the wind noise was AWFUL. Either way I figured I would give it an upload to a few of the social media sites and see what happens. I put it on Threads and on Instagram but when I tried to upload it to youtube it kept trying to do it as a long form video and not a short becuase the ratio was wrong so I deleted it there and never posted it. I am going to record my rides from now on as it was not as embarrassing as I thought it would be. I don't think anyone even noticed that I had a camera mounted to my chest or if they did they did not give on hoot about it.  I will be making some improvements to the video such as I think I am going to use a mic that is not on the camera to get better audio as well as make sure that the camera is pointed a bit more up. Right now the image is too much bars and not quite enough of the road. I also mounted the ...