Google and the heat beat

I can tell you that if you sit at your computer for five minutes, and google,  with a Polar heart beat monitor on you will burn 6 calories.  So on that basis, I guess I could just try sitting at my computer all day with the heart monitor and see what effect that has. It sort of reminds me of the fad there was a few years ago at the Ministry of Health where several employees (although not me!) walked around wearing pedometers - and they would beep when people were sitting at their desk.  Although the fittest guy I worked with never wore one.

Anyway, that's all I can tell you re the statistics today.  I have my computer functioning enough that I could've worn the strap while I rode, but I didn't.  It turns out both the owners of the Strawhouse and I are challenged when it comes to installing my new equipment, so I'm going to have to get a bike guy to do it.  I'll probably get Penny Farthing to do it when I get my bike serviced.  That will still be in time for Taupo so that I can know what speed I'm going.  The thing is I have it now.  Given the uncertainty in my ongoing budget its good to have the "essentials in place"!

I had thought that today I would do two laps of the Martinborough route.  Today was not a two lap day though.  I'll now aim to achieve that on Labour weekend Monday.  It requires an early start and the owners of the Strawhouse to be home all day - in case I need a "call out" - because I can't walk far in my cleats if anything happens.  That's just kind of a safety measure for myself.

I didn't get an early start today. This meant I was riding into a really strong headwind over to Martinborough.  Perhaps the strongest I have ridden in my most recent rides.  I guess it helps build resilence re that.  I was hoping I would get an awesome tail wind home, but the fricken wind died down.  Murphy's law!

I managed to take the hills a bit better and not fall off my bike.  I still find a couple of them quite hard.  I thought I knew the road now, but its not completely etched in my memory yet, so there are still a nearly forget about.

There weren't many cyclists on the road today.  A few.  One really fast guy.  Fast going down hill. 

One of the nice things about today's ride was the appearance of the Gladstone scarecrows circa 2011.  It's a Gladstone thing where the locals have a competition building up to Guy Fawkes day to have the best dressed scarerow.   There are lots of All Black scarecrows this year.  Some of them are pretty fricken awesome!