My 1st long distance Travel Shopping workout!

I probably invented a new way of workouts here! I find biking and circling Houston Parks so boring, so if I want a long distance workout, I do a long distance workout with shopping stops combined! So I save gas, get a workout, and shop and amuse myself all at the same time! Last weeks travel shopping workout was only 30 miles, not long enough; today's was 38.91 miles - because there was a little wind, I was suffering going home!

My weapon for Travel Shopping workouts is my modded 2007 Trek Pilot 2.1 SPA - a rare discontinued bike! It's modded with a 100lb capable Journey Axiom Rack, 2 Jandd commuter panniers, Brookstone travel combination locks to close the panniers so people can't open them to steal your stuff, an alternate hitch for a Burley Nomad, a Polar Powermeter, and ceramic bearing Ksyrium Sls! Then I hook it up to my Burley Nomad. This is my dream commuter bike, but I tell myself not to upgrade it more because sometimes you pass people that think this is a hot setup to steal from you! I think about carrying a knife! Total cost maybe $3070 for the setup!

Total bad my powermeter ain't working because the cadence pickup is messed up. But towing an unloaded Burley Nomad - it feels like it's not there. Easy cruising at 18 mph is easy, even when I didn't bike much this year, - like less than 50 miles a week! The vulnerability of the Burley Nomad is that people can open it and steal your stuff. I shopped Walmart today for $10.44 in groceries and then when I checked for it at Marshalls near Galleria it was not there! Either I was a tool and forgot to load my groceries or someone stole it! It hurt not know I was not gonna eat a nice carrot cake roll the next morning!

So if you live in a city that's boring to work out in parks at, try "Travel Shopping Workouts!"

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