Google Reader Subscriptions.
March 16th, 2009
I doubt anyone reading this will not know what rss is. If you don’t, I forgive you, and here’s the wiki entry. Basically, it’s a way you can subscribe to things (blogs, news sites, comics, etc) and instead of going to the site to see if there’s new info, you go to one place (for me that’s Google Reader), and all the sites you’re subscribed to (via rss) will have the update, if any, in that one place for your perusal.
So here is a list of my google reader subscriptions pertaining to cycling. I’ve stripped out all the “other stuff” (there’s a lot), and left the .xml file with the cycling feeds. You will be able to save this file, and upload it to your reader of choice, and then you’ll be subscribed to all these great feeds!
google-reader-cycling-subscriptions.xml
Below is the list of cycling blogs. It’s about 95 items. Almost in alphabetical order. 
A.E. Bike Daily Deal
Alex Wetmore is always busy with something…
Bad Idea Racing
BaileyWorks Messenger Bags
Bedrock and Paradox
Beth’s Blog
Bicycle Design
Bicycle Frenzy
Bike Commuters
Bike Hugger
Bike Skirt
Bike Snob NYC
bike29.com
BikeHacks
Bikes For The Rest Of Us
bikesandbeer
BikeSmut.com
Carbon Fork
Charge Bikes – Juliet
Charge News
Coconino Cycles Custom Bicycles
Coffee, bits and bikes
CRC COFFEE BAR/CYKEL GARAGE
Cyclelicious
Cycling Spokane
Da’ Snot Rocket
dustylabarrblog
Fat Cyclist
Guitar Ted Productions
How to Avoid the Bummer Life
I Heart Singlespeed
IBIKEMPLS.com
Ironclad Performance Wear Cycling Team
JasonHilimire.com
JesseParker.com
KanyonKris
Kent’s Bike Blog
Lance Armstrong Doped
Large Fella on a Bike
Life on a Bike
Life through a Lens
Lost Coast Bike Expedition
Lunatic Biker
Masini’s Breaking Away Blog
Moscaline
Mountain Bike Mary’s Musings
Mountain Bike Riders
Mountain Biking by 198
Ms Spivy
Nine Mile Skid
NoPoGirl
Official Website of Jeff Kerkove
one less car news
Oxford Cycling
Redcoat in The Bubble
Ride-Strong.com
ride29er
River City Cycling Society
S24O
sean salach
Siren Mary’s Musings
Slip Angle
solo goat blog
sologoat garage
Sonya Looney
Spokin’ Sportsman
Stronger, Fitter, Faster
teaching cancer to cry
Terry Davidson
The Adventures of Carney
The Bicycle Tutor
The Confessions of Captain Swallowtail
The Dan Gerous Official Blogspot
The Everyday Athlete
The Life and Times of Biking Brady
the Practical Pedal Blog
The Prairie Peddler
The Wander Girl
Tinker’s Cycling and News Blog
Fastish
Tour Divide blogs
trackosaurus rex
Under The Weather – Messenger Bags and Cycling Clothing for Moving People
Up in Alaska
UpaDowna
Upside Out
Urban Velo
Viva Salo
Waltworks Bicycles
Watching the World Wake Up
WNC Mountain Biking
Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery
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I’ve been tracking calories.
March 4th, 2009
Yes, this is actually bike related.
My lovely wife has been tracking her calories for a couple of weeks, and since I have to do everything she does, I started as well. Probably the fair truth of it is that I wanted to show her how much easier the Livestrong app (itunes link) is than the one she’d used, called Lose It (itunes link). Devious of me but I still maintain that the Livestrong one is better. Mainly because it can be interacted with on their website, which can make all the data entering vastly easier. I will say that the interface for Lose It is easy enough to make the previous point about Livestrong app moot. But whatever.
In any case I have been tracking my calories for a whole three days. I haven’t found out too much, aside from that I eat a lot. I haven’t been just terribly hungry all the time, and I’m pretty much hitting the target (that, according to Livestrong and my profile, would have me lose a pound or 2 per week). Throw some exercise in the mix, and I should be good to go. Exercise is something that Lose It couldn’t handle, so it’s nice to use the Livestrong app for that reason alone.
Going on. I have glanced over the clearly representative set of data from my eating pattern. And come to this conclusion. I eat. a. lot. of. salt. I hit 149% of my goal today. That is 3 and a half grams of salt. I’m not sure if you know how much salt that is. I do. It’s a lot. And my first day was 122%. Yesterday was much less, but then I didn’t enter all the foods I ate, and incidentally they were some of the saltier ones (canned beans x 2). I will have to go add that data.
Now. The part that relates to cycling. I have shed a few pounds lately, and that’s very needed. I hope to hit 175 by the time I do any serious group rides. And by that I mean races. But will include any ride where I don’t want to feel like a tool at the back of the pack, sweating his winter weight. Fortunately the lovely wife is on my side this time! It’s nice for her to be counting calories too. Nice for me, I mean; she’s beautiful any way, of course.
Now I wonder if Rold Gold make slow salt pretzles. If they don’t, they should. (duh).
Update: Yesterday’s properly updated salt (yes I mean sodium salt) was 134%. Also not good.
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