Yesterday:  277.6 lbs, burned 2316 calories, consumed 1427
Today:  276.6 lbs.   Activity:  8.5 miles (real bike)

We live right near a bike trail and so often when we go out riding, we’ll take the trail.  Tonight Kevin and I were headed for a specific location (four miles away), so we took the trail because that was the quickest route.

Well, along that route is an overpass for pedestrians and bicyclists.  Last summer I had worked up enough strength in my legs to ride up the incline, but I hadn’t tried it this year - I was afraid to because of the injury I had in December and the problems I was still having with my knee even as recent as a month ago.

Today I did it!

It was cool because as I was going up, there were two (skinny) ladies coming down on rollerblades - only they weren’t skating down, they were holding on, one on each side of the ramp, and inching their way down.  So I had to go between them, and when I was coming up, they were probably only about 1/3 down from the top.  As I stood on my pedals and strained to keep moving, they both started cheering me on.  “You can do it!  You’re almost there!”  I couldn’t exactly TALK (because I was busy trying to breathe and stay conscious) but I couldn’t help but smile.  That was really nice!

And so I made it.  And then when we were headed home, I made it up the opposite ramp.  AND I FELT AWESOME.

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