downward ding bike

downward dog this morning. i think i may need to start getting up an hour early because my yoga practice is not consistent or strong. i need to find the groove again. that goes for my diet as well. yesterday i went swimming in the gym in our community. i thought that would make me show some weight loss but instead i showed weight gain. it's the peanut butter consumption, plus too many other calories. i think i will start putting a list of all the reasons peanut butter is not a good food. i had not swimmed in a pool in probably two years. you don't forget the swimming strokes. being from an island, i grew up swimming. when i went to college in Notre Dame, they tested our swimming skills in physical education. i did not know how to dive, so they dinged me, assigning me to obligatory swimming classes. actually, that was a useful thing, because i improved my swimming skills. While in Texas, swimming was my main mode of exercise for probably 15 years. i need a ding with respect to yoga now.

this weekend i'm getting together with my Olympian coworker who bicycles about 80 miles daily to and from work, to buy a Dahon foldable bike. i used to drive 80 miles daily in San Antonio between my home, the YMCA downtown for swimming, my work in the southwest part of the city, and the University of Texas in San Antonio in the northwest part of the city, returning after classes to my home in the north east of the city. i can't imagine the effort to bicycle the same distance daily. i'm looking forward to this bicycle, so i can go exploring the neighborhood, or the city on weekends. Pudong is architecturally very interesting and i have still not checked it out fully.