Archive for February, 2009

How many calories do you burn cycling?

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

You burn a lot of calories cycling. The tables below show roughly how many calories you are burning according to your weight and average speed. The average speed is based on time cycling and does not include time stopping at traffic lights, breaks and pit stops etc. Weight (lbs) <10 miles/hr 11 miles/hr 13 ...

On Being Functional and (Mostly) Fashionable

Friday, February 20th, 2009

So on Valentine’s Day we braved the fearsome clouds, and a group of twenty-five intrepid souls rode into Fairfax and back via the Mini-Tiburon Loop. It was touch and go at the start, as a squall blew through Sports Basement just as we started going over the safety speech. Fortunately ...

Ride 4 Recap

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

We had yet another awesome ride on Sunday.  It around sixty riders braved the cold and wet to join us on our trek to Tiburon.  It got a lot drier as we headed into Marin and everybody had a pretty good day.  We added a big new hill this week, ...

The girl who only got a little moist

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

I shuddered when I walked out of my door for this ride because it was cold and wet.  But TV told me it wasn't going to rain until later so I figured it was going to be OK.  Nevertheless, prudent Joseph abandoned his first outfit choice, a thong bikini, in ...

The girl who worked too hard to ogle

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

We had more fantastic weather for our mini loop to Tiburon.  Sunny, warm and generally perfect.  We had quite a group show up as well.  Over sixty, I believe, and each one of them totally hot.  I got a bunch of shots of everybody stretching.  Wilfredo brought speakers and played ...