Enthusiastic about yesterday's good news, I took a nice long ride on my day off and I took another one today. Yesterday's was tough, because it included two hard climbs: Eastbound on Broadway between Pantano and Sarnoff (a 2.45% grade climb of 45 feet in about 1/3rd of a mile), and a much harder, shorter climb westbound on 22nd street between Pantano and Kolb (a 6.7% grade climb of 46 feet in about 1/8th of a mile). All in all, it was a 7.9 mile ride.
Today's ride was meant to be shorter, but I was able to convince myself to keep going and take a couple of detours on my way home. I would show you the point on the map where I literally turned around on my way home to continue my ride, but my GPS program had a hiccup and didn't complete the route. I entered the coordinates manually into a KML file, but there is a problem with the file. (The folks at GPSed are working on this as we speak).
My re-creation of the route in Google Maps:
My last weigh-in saw a loss of 3.5 lbs due to slightly better eating and just under 10 miles of biking for that time period. So far, I will have more than 20 miles under my belt for my upcoming weigh-in, so hopefully we will see more positive results!