Goodbye Ford Fusion – Hello Mountain Bike
Yesterday the lease was up on my 2007 Ford Fusion and I decided to not get another car. It was weird turning in the car and not getting something new. My decision was based on a couple different factors.
The first one was the house my girlfriend and I moved into in Royal Oak, Michigan. For those of you that do not know, Royal Oak is a suburb of Detroit that has a ton of fun things to do right in their own little down town. Before I moved there it was the place I went to with my friends to hang out. A lot of my friends already live in that area and are now about 5 to 10 minutes away by bike.
The second factor was that I bought a sweet mountain bike a couple years ago and never really rode it. I spent almost $500 on a Specialized Rockhopper Mountain Bike. My goal was to
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I was starting to feel a whole lot better today after a nice relaxing weekend. I had not done any kind of working out since I had a huge pain in my neck last week. It still kind of hurts but at least it moves with a more normal range of motion. All that I did over the past week was run. No P90X for me. I did not want to re-injure any pinched nerves in my neck and have to skip out on another week of doing anything. Funny thing happened on Saturday. I broke the treadmill. Now its either run outside in the cold Michigan winter or get on a treadmill at the gym. Off to the gym.
So today it was time to get back on the horse. I headed off to my gym and decided to switch things up a little bit. Doing the triathlon has been in the back
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