teriwitt:
You should get him a bike maintenance course. Through some combination of kicking the bike and cussin’ at it, there must have been a way to get the chain on the next sprocket!
<p>Yea, I asked him if he could have fixed it had he had a bike repair/tool kit with him and he said no. But if he’s going to go off on these long rides by himself, he needs to learn a little more about basic maintenance.</p>
<p>Or perhaps I should just get him one of those homing devices for Father’s Day… you know, I can follow his progress from my computer or something so when he takes his cell phone swimming again, I can track him down.</p>
<p>I will be in Wisconsin and then Atlanta for the next three weeks. Let’s see how much salad and veggies I will be able to find. Or will I starve in an ocean of ribs, cheese and cinnamon rolls?</p>
<p>Spinach brownies?? </p>
<p>Teri…yeah…see if he can hook up with someone at a bike shop for the basics. Does he know how to change a flat? I usually bike with H and he’s in charge of that stuff 
We’ll be biking about 40 miles into DC on the 4th (for the works!) and will have our safety stuff with us. Walking bikes a long distance is no fun.</p>
<p>He should be carrying at least one of those multitools, and he should know how to do simple adjustments. To readjust his bike into some gear other than the lowest, he just had to adjust the setscrew for the rear derailleur.</p>
<p>I don’t know if it was as easy as you guys suggested. When we dropped it off at the bike shop, they did a quick cursory look and were not able to diagnosis what kind of repair would be needed… only that the handle shift was frozen. That’s when they said they would need to keep it and look at it further (after attempting a couple of obvious adjustments). They even suggested he might have damaged his rear derailleur as the bike fell in the hole. It wasn’t a gradual slope he rode into; it was a sudden drop. </p>
<p>Yes, he knows how to change flats, and he’s pretty good at figuring things out, but he will have to learn more about basic bike repair (or as I mentioned earlier, buy a waterproof bag to keep his stuff in which isn’t a bad idea anyway, because what if he’d been caught out in the rain).</p>
<p>To fix the shifter is probably difficult, I don’t doubt that, but to simply adjust the derailleur so it’s stuck in some gear other than the lowest is simple, and a matter of turning a setscrew.</p>
<p>I’m just glad he is OK!! Bikes are easy to screw up and repairs can be complicated. My husband builds bikes for fun and there are always tweaks and replacement of parts to be done. The bike he built me is so awesome- all the cyclists are jealous and feel that it is wasted on a “runner”. I hope the bike comes back to life! I just zip my cellphone up in a ziploc bag.</p>
<p>Had my first 40 mile week since this hamstring thing started in late March. I’m definitely slow and not ready for racing, and the hamstring is still very noticeable, but I’m making progress. The good marathons of 2009 seem like a distant memory. Today I ran 8.5 miles and it felt pretty tough, but I didn’t totally fall apart or anything. The unseasonably hot, humid weather is NOT a help. I drove straight to Sonic when I finished for a large iced tea. (4 lemons, 2 sweeteners)</p>
<p>Spinach brownies?</p>
<p>The only brownies I have had with- uh, plant matter in them- weren’t spinach.
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<p>Teriwtt, that was one sucky bike ride- I hope he had ID on and a contact #- that would have been really bad if he had gotten hurt.</p>
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<p>I’m disappointed we don’t have one in my area at the moment. I’m spending the summer in Wisconsin and the closest one is like 30 minutes away 
I love their half-price slushes! I normally go with either the Powerade slush or the Watermelon slush.</p>
<p>Spinach brownies. I have no idea how to make them. It’s a a speciality of my wife’s family. It looks like a brownie, but it’s made of cheese and spinach, baked until brown, and cut into little squares.</p>
<p>^^^Sounds like quiche without crust.</p>
<p>Spinach and cheese… well OK. I thought there might be some sort of weird recipe out there…I know someone who puts pureed black beans in the chocolate kind instead of oil…ewwww. </p>
<p>I got a high-protein bread at the farmers market yesterday. Thought it might be weird…made with ground quinoa and spelt. It was really good though. Not sure if would qualify as a diet food but it’s better for you than white bread.</p>
<p>I’m breaking out and doing a blueberry crisp tonight…will try the recipe on the Summer Recipes thread. Gotta get rid of that vanilla ice cream in the fridge :)</p>
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Yeah, but dense and chewy. Finger food. I have no idea how they make them. Somebody’s grandma got the recipe out of Good Housekeeping back before “the war” (I have no idea which one) and passed it down. I’ll have to ask what’s in them. I think it’s gotta be just frozen spinach and grated cheese, spread in the bottom of a baking pan, and baked.</p>
<p>Did my walk today. Hot. 88 degrees and, unlike yesterday’s lovely 27% humidity, today was muggy, just after a thunderstorm passed through. I beat yesterday’s time and was only 33 seconds off my fastest ever time for walking these hills – and that includes stopping to take my shoe off and shake out a stone I picked up. Nice 40 minute stroll.</p>
<p>interesteddad, I bet there’s an egg or two in there, to hold it together.</p>
<p>Hello everyone–I haven’t report for a while. </p>
<p>I have kept my weight down from 162 to 145 pounds. Just changing flavors and buying products with minimum fat, eliminating cheese with fat, walking at least twice a week for 60 to 90 minutes.</p>
<p>However, I’m stock in that weight for a while, coming here to get encouragement to use my treadmill. It is decorating the room for the last couple of years. No one use it, please give me some hints. I see the machine and I panic…</p>
<p>Hints?? Ummmmm . . . . Get on the treadmill and turn it on. Walk at 3.0 miles per hour until you feel you can go faster. </p>
<p>Not so tough.</p>
<p>If it were easy, Greenery would already have done it.</p>
<p>OK, Greenery, here’s the Fang approach. Pick a time today, say 9 pm. Promise yourself you will go on the treadmill for five minutes at the appointed time. Five minutes is hardly anything, so it’ll be easy to get through. You can do that, right?</p>
<p>Then report back here for the next step.</p>
<p>Yep, you are absolutely right. However, If I make the commitment with all of you I know I will tackle the “fear.”
Give me a little more time… Tomorrow I will report!</p>