Week 2 is much like week 1 … lots of indoor riding and counting down the days until we catch the plane for warmer, sunny lands. It probably doesn’t help the waiting watching one of our “Alaskan adopted” daughters fly south towards Hawaii for 10 days but at least we are in the season where we gain 4 1/2 - 5 minutes of sunlight per day. I also got to wear my new Christmas shirt this week as we watched the granddaughters do circles around the garage on their first recumbent trike. 

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I have great hopes for the Lil’ Grasshopper and am already starting research into the next level of trike to encourage my future riding partners.   Meanwhile outside we did get to “see” the sun today which was nice except it sits so low on the horizon folks actually wear sunglasses in order to stay on the roads. 

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I have also started building an overview gpx file of the various paths, streets, etc. in Tucson which will get loaded on my phone but also my Apple Watch. We don’t use any type of cycling gps/computer as it is one more item to mount but rather a simple app on the watch which provides the same information and routing capabilities, Workoutdoors. The interface is fairly simple and the process of finding a gpx route, sending it to my phone and then sending it to my watch takes just a few minutes. In addition, if needed I can do this when riding if something perks my interest along the way. The app (watch) also does not require my phone for connectivity which means I do not run down the battery on my phone. Once thr ride is over, I simply upload the ride to my Ridewithgps account for recording g but also for others in the future. 

We did end this week with a one day gain of 6 minutes of sunlight … progress is being made. Time for another indoor ride … sigh.