🏥 Health Exercise thread - Fitness, Recreational, etc

[Jimy Bilmo]

Question, if you are familiar with it... I was planning on parking over at Mundelein High School and going west from there. Do you foresee any issues with that, or a better place to park in the area?

No clue. I've just ridden it a handful of times with 01Cobra never bringing a vehicle there. You should be fine. The Mundelein park district is right down the road, if you're worried about being parked at the school.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

No clue. I've just ridden it a handful of times with 01Cobra never bringing a vehicle there. You should be fine. The Mundelein park district is right down the road, if you're worried about being parked at the school.

This is the local resident info that invaluable... thank you sir.

I have a friend in Round Lake just north of Nippersink (east of Wilson) that I'm trying to find a safe way to ride to, from the trail. It looks like I can take surface streets through the subdivisions to get through to his place:

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

My entire workout today is going to be seeing how many back & forths I can do with the resistance turned all the way up. Been doing 4-5 runs at a time and it’s exhausting

Trying to get more athlete-esque training in, instead of just weightlifting

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

I’m on a bicycle ride now. Seeing if I can do a “full pull” on the great Western Trail. Basically from St. Charles to Sycamore and back. First time this season I’ve rode this. Should be about 34-35 miles round trip.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Just over 34 miles. Got to try out the new headlight. Seems to work decent in both Auto and Trail modes.

 

[Fish]

Got a little ride in this evening.

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Damn you straight up come into MY neighborhood to ride on MY trail? Lol.

I am on the lookout for a bike to get back into it. My youngest doesn’t care much for walks lately and would rather play in the park or in the backyard. I do miss walking the trail though.

 

[Spivitz]

Did The Walk early, already hot

Lifting weights now FTW

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

So, since I didn’t get any rides in this weekend I was going to go for a ride this evening, in a few minutes. Thought was to head southeast into Wheaton (and into the wind) taking the PP down to Butterfield or so, then head back.

Getting changed wondering why it’s getting so dark. Then looked at the radar. Where the hell did that massive cell come from? Wasn’t even manifesting 45 minutes ago.

Gonna go play with Legos instead ?

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Out on a bicycle ride… will post stats when I get back.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Sure didn't feel like it was 97º outside:

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Another one in the books. Again didn’t feel like it was above 90°. The wind was brutal though.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Not bad, definitely warmer than 70°. Aside from a couple of idiots on the path it was a decent ride. I left over an hour after I had planned, but the dark didn’t bother me. One of the few times I was glad I had an old surgical mask in my backpack, for the swarms of bugs I was riding through.


edit, yeah, it was warmer out:

 

[bimmer4life]

This felt good !

 

[Spivitz]

We just walked, getting down on the weights
Massaging my Dad bod

GLADIATOR

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

This felt good !

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[SpeedSpeak2me]

About to ride the Millennium trail. Parking at Mundelein high school was a bust. Thought it would be busy there. Not a single car in the lot. Didn’t want my truck standing out.

Ended up at the park district building. still, not that busy either.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Well, most of the trail that parallels Hawley, west of the school was closed. About four miles under construction. That was nice. The last two trail miles are closed, under construction. Not closed enough though.

Made it to Fairfield park. Taking a break then heading back.

Going to have to ride the road when I get back to Hawley. Not looking forward to that.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

That might have been overly ambitious.

 

[bimmer4life]

That might have been overly ambitious.
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Naw badass man .let us know how you feel in the morning ?

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Naw badass man .let us know how you feel in the morning ?

Garmin said my recovery time was 4 days, ?.

I went through about 100oz of water. Two 24oz bottles that had electrolytes added. Then almost 50oz of my 72oz hydration pack.

i stopped to have a snack every 10-15 miles, and did take an extended release sodium tablet.

Forehead is a little burned where the SPF55 wore off, but that’s about it. Legs are a little fatigued, but I’ve been worse.

Someone mentioned the “hill”. Think it was @jimbo. Not sure what hill that was though. Nothing horrible.

 

[bimmer4life]

Garmin said my recovery time was 4 days, ?.

I went through about 100oz of water. Two 24oz bottles that had electrolytes added. Then almost 50oz of my 72oz hydration pack.

i stopped to have a snack every 10-15 miles, and did take an extended release sodium tablet.

Forehead is a little burned where the SPF55 wore off, but that’s about it. Legs are a little fatigued, but I’ve been worse.

Someone mentioned the “hill”. Think it was @jimbo. Not sure what hill that was though. Nothing horrible.

Pretty low winded day that saved your legs no doubts

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Pretty low winded day that saved your legs no doubts

Yeah, what was odd was that in some sections I knew I was going down hill, but had to pedal to keep from losing speed ??‍

 

[1quick]

Been trying to run a sub 8 minute mile now for a few weeks, started at 11 then 10,9 and now in the low 8’s

 

[bimmer4life]

Nice!! Your right there and not rushing it good stuff!

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Turns out 4 days is the max recovery time Garmin can show, lol.