41 miles of biking.  WOW!! Spring is finally here and I pulled my bike out of the garage and started commuting! I had the car on Monday, but Tuesday morning I walked Nadia to day care while pushing my bike.  I’m sure we looked quite a sight!  Nadia was on my chest, a backpack on my back, and pushing the bike next to me.  We did this two mornings before I finally got the bike trailer rigged up so that we can use her car seat.

You see, babies aren’t supposed to ride in a trailer until they can hold their heads up with a helmet on. A friend’s doctor confirmed this statement of every company’s manual.

We have a Chariot Cougar 2 and they sell accessories for infants.  Just not for with the bike attachments.  So we decided to rig the trailer so that her car seat could be strapped securely in a rear facing manner.  It seems to be working pretty well.  I commuted 2 days with the trailer and we went for a 10 mile ride on Sunday.

This is the first time I biked outside since November and I actually biked more last week than the entire month of November (though to be fair pretty much everything stopped after the 14th!)

I did run, once.  I went out on a gorgeous Saturday afternoon and ran 5 miles along the Greenway.  I’ve been hearing a lot about heart rate training and how in the base phase you need to keep it in a Zone 1 or 2.  So I setup my heart rate monitor and went out for a run with the goal of keeping my heart rate under 160 bpm.  It turned out to be quite hard and a little annoying.  I had to run pretty slow (almost 10 minute pace).  I knew to expect it, but still… that’s hard for me to do.  I completed the 5 miles and actually didn’t feel very tired, my legs felt a little tired, but they also did almost an hour of running!

I went ahead and signed up for 30 Days of Biking, even though I’ll be gone all of this week and several days at the end of the week and won’t have access to a bike.  So my 30 Days of Biking is really… Biking every day in April that I have access to a bike!

I hope to get 2 runs in next week (week days, more on the weekend!) while I’m at Wolf Ridge with a bunch of 7th graders.  It will mean an extremely early start to the day, but it might also help reduce the stress level!