The week I got back I was still riding every day. I pulled out my mountain bike, created a very hilly training loop, and put myself in a position to continue training... but what for? I tried coming up with crazy ideas for my next challenge (like the 322 km hairshirt, riding back from Montreal next year in 3 days, or just doing the ride to Montreal solo, but in half the allotted time). Great ideas, and I still want to do them, but it's hard to get motivated after I had just finished the ride. I suppose it's not a good idea to put all your eggs in a penny earned. 

I haven't gained much weight since the ride, but I can definitely see how it's shifted. It's like all the muscle from my legs has been melted over my mid section. Not fun. Now I understand how I managed to continue losing weight after stopping riding for the winter last year. I was confused because I was losing weight, but my body looked the same. I guess it was all muscle. Oops.

I had a lot of success with spinning and tracking my calorie intake and expenditure through fitday. It does a great job at tracking calories going in and going out, but... I'm kinda bored of it. Plus it looks like shit on my iPhone. I googled iPhone and calorie, and the first site that popped up was Gyminee. I registered on my way to lunch and started using it right away.

It's mostly better than fitday for tracking calories. You can actually browse user-submitted nutritional facts, so there's pretty much every fast food menu in there, which is great for me who's always on the run. It's not as good with editing portions. With fitday you can convert a portion to an ounce to a gram to a litre (within reason) and enter it that way. On Gyminee you're limited to adding by portions. Just a little more mental math when inputting.

What it doesn't do is track calorie expenditures. It won't calculate basal metabolic rate, or give you estimates of how many calories you burn in an activity. That means you're missing out on the cool calories burned vs. calories eaten graphs. So in that respect if someone's purely looking for a weight loss (or gain) tool, fitday is probably better. But there's so much more that Gyminee does.

Gyminee's got user-created workout routines. You can use anyone else's routine. There are ones to help a beginner train for a 5k to ones that target fat loss and muscle gain. It looks pretty cool. It also tracks and graphs a lot more than fitday—muscle size, heart rate, body fat... whatever you can think of. Pretty cool.

Hrm... I don't mean to make this out as an ad for them or something... I don't know enough about it yet to rave about it, but if I can use this as motivation, I should see a lot more success than just with weight loss. Awesome.

Now the only issue is will I be able to wake up early enough every day to keep with it? Ughness.

BTW, here's my public profile in case anyone would like to have a looksee.