Les Studs

Watching Chris Froome's crash on the second to last mountain stage, in which his front wheel squirted out from under him when it went over a slick white stripe on the pavement, I concluded that he should have been using studded tires. Duh. What could be the downside?

Summer Biking

I am back in biking paradise here in Leelanau County. I have been pretty consistently doing my 30-mile loop around the Glen Lakes, first up the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail, then on roads.

Here's the mystery: When you Google "How many calories does biking burn?", you get the answer 1800 or so for a 57-year-old man riding 30 miles. If that were the case, I would weigh approximately 0 lbs by now. In order to gain weight, which I have, slightly, I would need to eat, let's see, 4500 calories a day, or something. I hope I don't do that. Maybe I do . . . More likely is that the 1800 calorie figure is wrong. Really wrong.

The secret to losing--or not gaining--weight? Eat less. Bummer.