Pittsburgh Wheelers

Hey all, I hope that this post finds everyone dry and in great spirits. I myself am in good spirits despite the great weather that we consistently have in our wonderful area. I wanted to send a brief message to everyone (all viewers and riders) that there is a 60 mile ride going on in Pittsburgh this coming Sunday. I am not really sure of all the details on the ride, but I do know that it is going on on Sunday and most likely will kick off early. I will speak with the other Jason and get more of the details this evening, but I just wanted to put this out to everyone after reading John's post about doing some longer rides. I dont think that it will be a crazy hard ride, but nevertheless it will be fun. Should be lots of other "freaks" there to experience the city riding with. Hopefully if everything goes well with a turnout for a ride tonight we may be able to discuss this at that time. But for those who dont attend the ride I will try to do my best to inform everybody of the details for Sunday. I think that it is like 20.00 dollars for entering.

On another note, the weather stinks, and doesn't seem like it is really going anywhere fast. Hopefully it will lighten up for tues and thurs. The weekend I am hearing is supposed to be pretty good. We'll see when it gets here, but it almost seems as though that catchy little phrase may be in play again......."I hope that when summer gets here, it is nice and it will be on the weekend."

I also just want to give everyone a little weight loss facts. Please dont take this as bragging or whatever it could be misconstrued as, cause it would never be meant for anything other than factual information that could be used to anyone's advantage. With a proper diet and excersize you can shed weight (if that is what you are after) in a small amount of time. Increase the amount of fruit (only natural sugars) and vegetable in your diet, and dont eat meats with starches, they dont digest together because of the acids and bases that your stomach secrete's to digest those foods. Also lose all the sugars, they are junk. Here is the factual info....about three to four weeks ago I was tipping the scales at or around 200 lbs, after a good hard consistent effort of riding weekly (with about 1-2 days off/week) I am down to about 185-188. It just goes away. There was an article in Bicycling magazine sometime last year, that said "Bicycling is the BEST form of excersize for weight loss. It truly is....... I really dont know if that is usefull to anyone but when I got on the scale two days ago I was really amazed, because it is really not something that I pay alot of attention to. Once the mtn. biking season gets closer I do watch it, but dont live by it because I know that if I am consistent with my training and riding it dissappears. Lastly, the one thing that could be important to one, is that the more weight you carry the harder you work. So with a little loss and consistency you can get faster, and ride a bit easier.

Well I hope to see as many of you as possible this week. Heather V. keeps telling me that she is coming out to ride.......where is she? Sorry to put you on the spot, but you are a big player in getting people out there......so bring your indoor crowd out for recess.

Talk to you all soon.

Jason