Damnit to hell. I got lazy again and rode downtown and took the bus, thus cutting 8 miles out of my commute today. It wasn’t even 80 degrees, so I could have easily done it. I guess I just felt lazy today, I dunno. I rode the bus to the mall and ate Chick Fil-A, which is amusingly the only place I ever eat when I’m at the mall. Then I rode from the mall to work. After putting in 30+ miles each of the last two days and averaging over 13mph each day, I guess I figured I deserved a slacker day or something. Since I get off at 2 tonight, I might just take a longer route home or something. I dunno.
Being out riding in the sun has made for some interesting tan lines, that’s for sure. My arms are pretty dark but because I wear fingerless gloves, my hands up to my middle knuckle are white. Plus I wear short-sleeved shirts so my shoulders and upper arms are super white too. For whatever reason, my legs aren’t tanning for shit.
My co-workers think I’m riding too much or something. Apparently I’m losing fat and gaining muscle, so I’m looking even skinnier than usual or something. I eat like crazy but I guess I burn it all off and it goes to muscle or something. One of them even went so far as to say I look like I just crawled out of a concentration camp. Amusing. With as much as I ride, there’s no way in hell I’m going to be able to gain any fat at all. I burn it all off like crazy. I still have some fat on my stomach and such. No six pack or anything. Then again, I could care less about such things. About the only place I really want to gain any muscle is in my legs. Perhaps a small amount in the arms as that helps with power transfer while pedalling out of the saddle. However, I’m too lazy to actually do any exercises or anything to improve my upper body strength. Speaking of strength, I’d bet if I started commuting on a fixed gear bike my leg strength would be even better. It’d probably improve my cadence and such as well. Oh, well… another project for another day I guess. 