I posted a blog early this morning about the “change in diet”. As I was blogging I was enjoying the protein powder/coffee/org soymilk cup of drink I mentioned in my new diet blog earlier this morning. I also had a banana with it. I had a refill on the “same” drink before I left to go play Pickleball and drank it throughout 5 hours of pickleball.
I had so much energy and I played so well.
I wasn’t done on the exercising part yet.
I went to a local park here in Terre Haute called Deming Park. There is this one really steep hill near the exit of the park which is right next to the entrance of the park. You can’t miss this steep hill.
After 5 hours of pickleball…I grabbed my backpack looking for a spot I could plug my laptop in and relax and work on one of my articles. I trotted directly up that steep hill starting my journey.
I did find a good spot about 1/2 mile down but I couldn’t get any good reception and laptop wasn’t being too friendly. That didn’t work.
After finally getting a hold of my daughter we agreed to go bike riding. Whoa…did we do some bike riding! We started with a two mile ride and made our way to Dairy Queen for a sundae and put a lid on it then headed to Starbucks which was about another 1/2 mile. Of course, I got my protein/coffee/org milk.
My daughter finished off her ice cream and I had all my coffee left but we went ahead and started riding. We headed for Heritage Trails out to Rose Hulman. We later came to an entrance into Hawthorn Park from Heritage Trails and there were some great hills. The entrance into Hawthorn Park was a pretty steep hill. I felt it in my legs right away.
Let me tell you! My 10 year old daughter amazed me with her strength and enthusiasm to be tough and do some serious hill climbing. I even recorded it. We found a very steep hill in another local park called Hawthorn Park right next to Rose Hulman. We went in a loop about a mile then got back onto Heritage Trail and went to end of trail and turned around and went back to hilly part of Hawthorne Park and kept challenging ourselves to go up on the hill again.
We climbed that crazy hill and looped a good 1 or so of a mile a total of 4 times. I honestly didn’t know my daughter had it in her to take her single speed bicycle up these hilly parts. I’m giving her the Little Armstrong award for climbing the hills on her single speed 12″ bike. This first hill from the Heritage Trail into Hawthorne Park I felt was very deep. I can’t lie…my legs are really feeling our ride as I write this.
I tried to keep it on the hardest gear the whole ride with my daughter but on that very first hill into Hawthorn Park…there was NO way I could do it. i was literally stopping. I wanted to make it on the hardest gear but I had to drop gear about 3 notches. Then…no problem.
I was suppose to go play Pickleball at 6pm in the evening but my daughter was spent. She was ready to sit and relax. I had more energy. Let’s not forget 😉
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