DAAWGS!!!

Alright, I’m back in the saddle… bike saddle that is.

For the last 2+ months I’ve been making a Godzilla sized carbon footprint.  We flew half way around the world & then drove roughly the length of the US west coast before flying back home.  Since coming home, we’ve flown to Colorado for a ski trip, which included renting a van to cart all our skis around the mountains for 5 days.

But all of that I knew & bought into… the surprise has been how hard it is to return to my frugal carbon footprint… once I reached a state of being fat, dumb, and happy (driving a car, staying dry inside, quickly getting to my destination 15 miles away, etc), it was quite tough to actually return to using my bike for transportation.  Of course the fact that it is now cold and rainy most days in Portland does not help my motivation… but that is a cheap excuse.  So my fat carbon footprint continued through December simply because I was lazy and slothful.

I have restarted by carbon footprint log as of January 1st and I’ll post an update soon.  Today was a break through as I did some significant rides in light rain today.  I think I’m getting back my mental toughness… while I don’t expect to match my summer stats, I should still be able to keep my bike as my primary form of transportation.

More updates will be coming soon.