The November project asked yesterday for their members to post pictures that show what they do to stay active on the weekends. My answer is all over the place and not very well demonstrated by pictures (but kind of sort of, as long as I explain). Hence this blogpost! 

So, November Project people, I do lots of things. Today I (as I discovered on my short bike ride) was still recovering from my 50 mile ride on thursday in the afternoon heat and getting started running the Brookline hills again. So I just did my (very short) ride at a pretty chill pace (though I still arrived at Marathon sports disgustingly covered in sweat, thank you very much) and bought new running shoes (woo, first ever that fit really well!)

 And walked from my place over to Porter square for a new (sadly already broken, need to return) fan before joining a friend for dinner. (Chana Masala! Yummmyyyyy!)

Tomorrow I'll probably pack up my computer, bike to meeting (think like church only not quite-it's Quaker) and then bike somewhere else to park my butt in a coffee shop for a couple hours to get some writing done. 

This is a pretty darn chill weekend. Other weekends are super awesome and more what you're interested in. Two saturdays ago, I biked 60 miles total, going from my apartment in somerville to the Boston Common and from there down to Bryant University in North Smithfield RI and from there over to Wildflour Bakery (the closest all vegan bakery-cafe. Veggie Galaxy has all vegan baked goods, but it's a diner, not a bakery cafe) where I got coffee cake. COFFEE CAKE. Such a great reward for the bike ride! I haven't had coffee cake since I went vegan (mostly because I don't usually make it in the first place, don't think about it until it's there as an option and then I just crave it). 

Don't believe me? Here's photographic proof of Bryant: 

And here's that coffee cake I was just bragging about (I took the commuter rail back-pro tip: If you're not ready for 120 miles of riding but you want to go a really far distance, go somewhere the commuter rail runs (during the time you're riding your bike of course, otherwise you're shit out of luck). 

Other weekends, I go for hikes in the white mountains (and I was down in the smokies over memorial day weekend): 

That was the view form the trail! I carried about 25 pounds including food and water and it was pretty freaking awesome. (30 miles in two days)

In june, I did a presidential traverse (19 miles over the entire presidential ridge line) in 13 hours (which is faster than book time-and people warn that fast people should expect book time. I guess that means that two ex-thru hikers should pretty much expect to always beat the pants off almost everyone else...)