Up Hill, Down Dale

Today's Tijeras Tracking

So it's been 9 days since I rode anywhere under my own steam.  Been too busy to stay healthy, as they say.  Since today there wasn't much else to distract me, I hitched up the dog BOB trailer, saddled myself up, and got in  a few miles.
And paid for it....
9 days is certainly too long between exercise sessions.  Yes, I've tired myself out heaving Air Conditioners and tools up and down the roof of the RV, split a few hundred pounds of firewood for our hosts etc, but unsustained non-aerobic tiredness does not produce the same results as a good bike ride.  Measureable results such as lowered blood glucose for 24 hours or more, for instance.
Today I decided we (the doggies and I) would ride down to the sleepy village of Tijeras and back.
It was  a nice cool but often sunny day, and the weather forecast calls for possible rain or even SNOW over the weekend.  So perhaps I was able to beat the weather.  However, the ride beat ME since I am so out of shape.
It's not all downhill from Sedillo Hill to Tijeras, so I was a bit winded by the time I pulled in to the Tijeras City Hall.  I chose there to stop and rest and walk the dogs and turn around since there is very little traffic there, the parking lot is huge behind the fire station building, and thus lots of room to both park and walk the dogs.  Several local passers-by admired the dogs, of course, and I was able to get some circulation back into my feet by walking around with them.
If I thought the somewhat downhill ride to Tijeras was tiresome, it got rather worser on the way back to Sedillo Hill.  The grades are not terrible, but they do drag on, and I had to stop several times to stand up, get some circulation back in the feet, and even took my shoes off at one point and massaged my feet to get some relief.  My diabetes is slowly catching up to me and no doubt aggravating neuropathy in my feet.  I guess they's just fall off or rot if I didn't exercise them at all..... BAH
I got back to the RV just in time to take the gas-burning Explorer to pick up Jacque from her friend's house where they'd been sewing and hoo-hawing all day, thence to Grandson Jonathan's house where we are currently babysitting him with great gusto.  He went to bed peaceably a half hour or so ago but has not succumbed to the Sand-Man as of yet.  He keeps humming the Star Wars grand entry soundtrack amongst other noises.  This little apple did not fall far from the tree, as his dear Mommy was much the same when she was a wee toddler too.
Ride Started:  12:24 PM    Ride Ended:  3:48 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage:   13.4 Ending Voltage: 12.7  Lowest:  12.7
Beginning Blood Glucose:  187     Ending BG: 62  
(Ate before riding;   insulin pump basal rate 50% for this ride)
Lowest Temp  60 F      Highest Temp: 67 F   
Stats from the GPS:    Total Miles:  14.48
Distance Walked: .8 miles 
Overall average speed            Moving Avg               Max Speed  
4.2 MPH                                   6.3 MPH                    27.1 MPH 
Total Trip time                       Moving Time             Stopped Time 
3 hours 24 mins                     2 hours  17 mins        1 hour 7 minutes