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Saturday, August 20, 2011
August 20th ride
I started early this Saturday morning, wanting to get at least 60 miles in. I ended up with 84 miles and checked out some areas that I haven't been to before. I took it easy, since I wasn't fully recouped from last nights ride.
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August 19th ride
After work the weather was nice, so I took the Musashi out for a ride. I pushed a bit and ended up with an average speed of 20.2 mph.
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
August 17th Ride and Goal Met
Nice evening out with very little wind, so I took a little ride after work. It was enough to pass over my yearly milage goal of 2500 miles. Yeah! This is the most miles I have ever biked in a single year. I don't see me slowing down, perhaps I'll get up to 3500 miles.
I have put some thought on setting my next distance goal, since I hit the 2x centuries in two consecutive days goal last weekend. I think I'll set the next distance goal at 200K (124 miles).
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I have put some thought on setting my next distance goal, since I hit the 2x centuries in two consecutive days goal last weekend. I think I'll set the next distance goal at 200K (124 miles).
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Sunday, August 14, 2011
August 14th ride - Solo Century and Goal Met
It was very cool out and overcast with a 40% chance of rain this Sunday morning. So I thought I would keep an eye on the weather and try for a second century to meet my goal of two century's on two consecutive days. Success!
I started it by riding my 60 mile loop then added a 20 mile loop around Greensburg and finished off by adding another 20 miles West of Greensburg. The only stops were at the 48 and 75 mile markers to refill the tanks and empty the bladder.
I had some left foot pain, but not too bad. The only problem I really had was when I got off the bike, my legs were sore, but they were fine pushing the pedals, first time I had that happen.
Even though this was a slower Century, I think this is the first one that I have ever completed from start to finish, including breaks under 6 hours. Part of the reason was my wife put her own goal/limit on this ride: I had to be done by 2:30, I actually completed at 2:15, plenty of time to spare.
After the ride I was fine with the exception of my sore leg muscles, which didn't last too long.
A very enjoyable ride. I'll have to think about my next goal I'll set to replace this one.
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I started it by riding my 60 mile loop then added a 20 mile loop around Greensburg and finished off by adding another 20 miles West of Greensburg. The only stops were at the 48 and 75 mile markers to refill the tanks and empty the bladder.
I had some left foot pain, but not too bad. The only problem I really had was when I got off the bike, my legs were sore, but they were fine pushing the pedals, first time I had that happen.
Even though this was a slower Century, I think this is the first one that I have ever completed from start to finish, including breaks under 6 hours. Part of the reason was my wife put her own goal/limit on this ride: I had to be done by 2:30, I actually completed at 2:15, plenty of time to spare.
After the ride I was fine with the exception of my sore leg muscles, which didn't last too long.
A very enjoyable ride. I'll have to think about my next goal I'll set to replace this one.
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August 13th ride - Solo Century
The plan this Saturday was to test out the "Tree City Rolling Ride" It's a ride sponsored by the local Greensburg Indiana YMCA. Last year was the first year of the event. Their longest ride was 30 miles, so I didn't participate, this year though they have a 60 mile hilly ride. I have already signed up.
The routes aren't marked yet, but they do have a map on their web page that doesn't include street names so I made a sheet with what I thought would be the correct route. The 60 mile ride as I rode it was only 50 miles long, so I missed 10 miles somewhere. Which actually could have been a blessing since part of the ride was extremely hilly! The only part that I had issue with was south of the town of Buena Vista on Hamburg road. Sections of this road had a light amount of loose gravel on it. This road also had the most difficult climbs, although the climbing sections did not have loose gravel, there was one large descent with loose gravel making for a cautious descent on my very narrow 23mm tires.
I believe the ten miles I missed are on Hamburg road, since Hamburg road at one time split off in two directions with the same name! I think I took the wrong fork.
I'm looking forward to this ride which will take place on August 27th starting at the Greensburg Elementary school. The YMCA link is down at the moment, once the link is back up, I'll point to it here.
After checking out the 60 mile ride I decided to make a Century of it. I rode through town then up old highway 421 and back. I took an extra long break at the 70 mile mark (over an hour) at home to recoup from the heavy climbing of the first half of the ride.
This Century had more climbing then any other Century I have completed (over 3000 feet), I started late at 10:30 AM and I was up till 2:30 the night before. Even though I had all these things going against me, this was still my fastest Century yet!
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The routes aren't marked yet, but they do have a map on their web page that doesn't include street names so I made a sheet with what I thought would be the correct route. The 60 mile ride as I rode it was only 50 miles long, so I missed 10 miles somewhere. Which actually could have been a blessing since part of the ride was extremely hilly! The only part that I had issue with was south of the town of Buena Vista on Hamburg road. Sections of this road had a light amount of loose gravel on it. This road also had the most difficult climbs, although the climbing sections did not have loose gravel, there was one large descent with loose gravel making for a cautious descent on my very narrow 23mm tires.
I believe the ten miles I missed are on Hamburg road, since Hamburg road at one time split off in two directions with the same name! I think I took the wrong fork.
I'm looking forward to this ride which will take place on August 27th starting at the Greensburg Elementary school. The YMCA link is down at the moment, once the link is back up, I'll point to it here.
After checking out the 60 mile ride I decided to make a Century of it. I rode through town then up old highway 421 and back. I took an extra long break at the 70 mile mark (over an hour) at home to recoup from the heavy climbing of the first half of the ride.
This Century had more climbing then any other Century I have completed (over 3000 feet), I started late at 10:30 AM and I was up till 2:30 the night before. Even though I had all these things going against me, this was still my fastest Century yet!
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August 10th ride
After work the weather was great so I took the Musashi for a ride. This was the first time in weeks that I was out and didn't feel the sun shearing my skin! It was actually a little cool. I was happy to see that I was still able to get a 20mph average even though I haven't ridden much for what seems like forever.
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