Leg 2 Summary - North Richland Hills Tx to Santa Fe NM

Leg 2 Summary

Dates Tue 12/29/09 - Thu, 01/21/10
From North Richland Hills Tx
To Santa Fe NM
This Leg Total Miles Cycled = 758
This Leg Total Miles Walked = 86
Discovering America on 2 Wheels Total Miles Cycled = 1268
Discovering America on 2 Wheels Total Miles Walked = 114
Discovering America on 2 Wheels Total Miles Cycled and Walked = 1382

As far as the physical side of it goes, I could tell in the last week that my body was getting tired.... I was pushing harder and harder but getting less and less out of it...
 
Just before I started this Discovering America on 2 Wheels bicycling odyssey I weighed 216 lbs.
 
This morning at the Genoveva Chavez Community Center I weighed 194 lbs....
 
.... so I lost 22 lbs in the 38 days I was on the road or about 0.6 lbs / day.
 
My weight goal for the end of leg 2 was 190 so I fell 4 lbs short but I lost as much weight as I could lose and still do what I needed to do....
 
As I said, I really felt my body shrinking in those last 10 days.... I simply couldn't take in enough calories to make up for what I was burning up.
 
So here's what I looked like at the end of  Leg 2:
 

 
One of the things I'll work on in the future assuming I do Leg 3 is better nutrition and more protein intake.... I simply didn't get enough protein in those last 10 days when I needed it.  I will likely mail Ziploc bags of Creatine and Protein powder to post offices along the route to supplement my normal eating.
 
So that's the wrap on Leg 2.... my wife and I will continue to tour Santa Fe tomorrow.
 
I plan to go to Walmart to resupply and will put my backpack and bicycle in storage at A-1 Rental on Clark St just off Cerillos.
 
Good Night!