Cycling, Fitness and Other Things
Cycling
Ride in Prep for AV Fall Century
01228 days
To get ready for the AV Fall Century, I wanted to get out and ride some 50 plus miles. For this ride, I was jointed by Dave Schoder and a friend of his. The ride started out late 9:30 and we rode for 3.25 hours and rode 52 miles (82.80 km). We rode up Avenue G to 90th, over to Willow Springs and up to Backus road and down.
Ride – Home from Work
01232 days
This was not an exciting ride. I got from work to home in 38 minutes for a distance of 16.57km (10.4 miles). The ride seem hard and the wind was up. I just felt tired. The overall speed average was 26.1 kph (16.21 mph).
Ride to Work
01232 days
It was cool this morning and it was dark. This is the first ride that I had to use my head lamp. Being cool and such, it was hard to get going. I did not petal that hard because my legs felt heavy. Overall, I did about 16.2 MPH average.
Ride – Godd, Lake Elizabeth, Highland, back to Clay’s House
01240 days
I got a chance to ride with Clay Patten on Sunday morning before church. He likes to do hills, and I like going down hills. He hammers the up hills, while I just prod alone. He is about 30 lbs lighter and much stronger, so it is good for me to be challenged. Overall, the ride was very good. It felt good. I was tired after and that is all good. We rode about 25m/39km in 1:38. The weather was perfect. I wish all of my rides were this comfortable.
I recently tried to change my cranks from 182mm to 172.5mm, but there appears not so easy to get. My bike is over 10 years old and the bracket is funky. What I did not think about was just changing my small front chainring. I plan to make that change. That should help me with less torque and more cadence. I noticed when I was riding behind Clay, his cadence was higher when he was on his third cog off his granny gear, while I was on my granny.
Ride – 29 Miles
01248 days
Clay Patten and I talked about riding together, and we want to do the AV Fall Century in October. Clay is a machine. He is very very fit, while I am a guy with some form of fitness that is clearly really different than Clay’s.
For the ride, I met Clay at his house and rode to Munz Ranch road, over to Lake Elizabeth road, and over Godde hill back to his house.
This was the first time I rode up Godde. Clay being the fit machine, actually push me up some of the 1.2 miles of hill. Man, I feel so not fit around him. I will confess, that I was not ready for the ride. I did not feel well, my stomach and head were not in the game. With all of the hours at work and things going on, I was emotionally tired, which relates to being physically tired. The heat (over 100 degrees) did not help, nor not eating (stomach was a mess) prior to the ride.
Overall the ride was fun, It was an average of 13.9 pace. It should have been in the 15-17 pace, but we will try again next week?
Ride to Work
01260 days
This morning ride was nice, not much to report. I still did not get up to 18MPH. Here is the motionbase results.
Ride – From Work to Home?
01271 days
I had to pick up the 4-Runner from the auto repair place. It was just under 6 miles from work. I rode North and had the wind on West side. It was nice not having the head wind. The average speed was 19.7MPH. I liked it.
Ride from Home to Work
01273 days
Today’s ride was not very eventful, I just rode. My legs are tired, mostly, I believe from being stretched by Clay last night, (an owner of Valley Physical Therapy Group). He as a physical therapist is always concerned about my proper form, and proper balance. My hips are not doing the work and passing some of that work to other parts of my body. My calf injury is mostly likely due to the extra work they preform, so Clay wants me to stretch and do different execise, to help me find the proper balance. With that, he bent me and with the stretches I have been doing during the last week, my knees and hips have soreness from the rotation (stretch) of those parts. It will take a little time to acclimate the joints.
I rode an average of 17.4 MPH, still off from my goal, but I will get there. On the lights being red, require me to slow down (lowering my speed). While, I still run them when safe. My stopped time on my GPS is only one minute, so you guess, I am not “waiting” at red lights. One day, I will get pulled over.
Ride Home From Work
01273 days
Riding home from work was hard. I am trying to push myself and get my overall speed up. To do so, is causing muscle burn. I like it when it is done, but it is tiring. I did 16.6 MPH average, which is the best to date. Overall it went well and I am pleased. When I got home, I was a sweaty mess. The heat was a little over 100 degrees and my breathing was up, but my heart rate was after the first mile at 140 and was increasing up to 165 beats per minute when finished.
Ride to Work
01275 days
Today’s ride to work, started out cool. I did not expect to have be so chilly. I rode well, but I did not get the time I wanted. When riding into work, I want to ride as a goal for an average of 18 MPH. Today, was 16.7! I blame the red stop signals. Today, I came up to 9 of the 12 lights as red lights. I usually do not stop and wait for a green light, I RUN them, unless, I will get run over. One thing that disturbs me is sitting at red lights when no one is else is around. Coming up to red lights, I do have to slow down and even stop. The slowing down lowers my average.
