August was a very low mileage month. I went three weeks without riding at all. I ended up doing a very low total of 302 miles. A total of six GPS rides for the whole month!
I ended up with an average speed of 19.37 MPH.
The highlight of the month is the Tree City Rolling Tour which I'll cover in a separate post.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
July rides
Hey, I'm still here and riding, I put over 1,000 miles in July counting both the GPS and non-GPS tracked rides. When I ride to work I don't track the rides with GPS. It's a short ride to work and can add up to 20 miles a week.
The average speed for the month was 19.28 MPH over 1,037.63 miles.
The longest ride was 127 miles, my first ever 200K. It was not a planned ride, When I started that day I was only thinking of doing around 50 miles max. The weather was perfect, very little wind and cool.
Somehow I got a little motivated and added enough for 75 miles on the first loop. I then took a break at home and decided that since I was so close to a century, lets add another 25 miles. Then somehow was motivated again into adding even more miles. I ended up going 127 miles without really going anywhere! I did three loops around the Greensburg area.
Ride Details:
Summary:
There were too many rides for me to include them all here.
The average speed for the month was 19.28 MPH over 1,037.63 miles.
The longest ride was 127 miles, my first ever 200K. It was not a planned ride, When I started that day I was only thinking of doing around 50 miles max. The weather was perfect, very little wind and cool.
Somehow I got a little motivated and added enough for 75 miles on the first loop. I then took a break at home and decided that since I was so close to a century, lets add another 25 miles. Then somehow was motivated again into adding even more miles. I ended up going 127 miles without really going anywhere! I did three loops around the Greensburg area.
Ride Details:
Summary:
There were too many rides for me to include them all here.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Catch up post: June 13th to June 29th
Hard to believe June is almost over, seems like 2012 is flying by. I've mostly been riding 50 mile loops that include riding around Lake Santee. I actually seem to like the 50 milers a little too much, perhaps I'm getting addicted to them. I admit to feeling a little ephoria after the rides.
50 mile rides seem perfect, they can easily fit in after work, I can carry enough water for the entire trip (three large water bottles), they are fast, and I still feel great the next day at work.
It started with a bikejournal.com forum entry titled "2012 FIFTY MILE club" in this 'club' you set a goal of the number of 'fifty milers' you are attempting for the year. I put down 50 as my goal. They also have other clubs within the forum some for longer or shorter rides. There are some for the number of days ridden in the year.
If you ride a bike and you aren't already a member of Bikejournal, I would highly recommend it. It has a journal that is very easy to fill in your daily rides and keeps track of your rides year after year. It also has a great forum for keeping up with other bikers. I also signed up for the 1,000 mile a month club, I put down a goal of 1 for the year. The most I have ridden in a month so far this year is around 800 miles. I don't think I have ever ridden over 1,000 miles in a single month. I use the name of Musashi at bikejournal.
I have really been surprising myself with the avearge speeds I am getting on some of these rides.
I'm now over 2,100 miles for the year and almost 6,000 miles on the Musashi.
June 13th:
Distance: 50.78
Avg Speed: 20.0
Time: 2:32:38
Ride details
June 16th:
Distance: 50.54
Avg Speed: 18.8
Time: 2:41:18
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June 17th:
Distance: 52.55
Avg Speed: 19.1
Time: 2:44:58
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June 20th:
Distance: 50.73
Avg Speed: 18.8
Time: 2:41:45
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June 22th:
Distance: 52.02
Avg Speed: 20.6
Time: 2:31:42
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June 23rd:
Distance: 50.52
Avg Speed: 20.0
Time: 2:31:33
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June 24th: I think this is my fastest 30.
Distance: 30.35
Avg Speed: 21.1
Time: 1:26:22
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June 25th: Easy joy ride spent looking at roads to chang my main 50 mile route to avoid the downtown miles.
Distance: 16.52
Avg Speed: 18.1
Time: 2:32:3854:53
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June 27th:
Distance: 53.66
Avg Speed: 20.5
Time: 2:37:07
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June 29th: I felt very strong on this ride, the second half had an average speed over 21mph
Distance: 51.80
Avg Speed: 20.8
Time: 2:29:24
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50 mile rides seem perfect, they can easily fit in after work, I can carry enough water for the entire trip (three large water bottles), they are fast, and I still feel great the next day at work.
It started with a bikejournal.com forum entry titled "2012 FIFTY MILE club" in this 'club' you set a goal of the number of 'fifty milers' you are attempting for the year. I put down 50 as my goal. They also have other clubs within the forum some for longer or shorter rides. There are some for the number of days ridden in the year.
If you ride a bike and you aren't already a member of Bikejournal, I would highly recommend it. It has a journal that is very easy to fill in your daily rides and keeps track of your rides year after year. It also has a great forum for keeping up with other bikers. I also signed up for the 1,000 mile a month club, I put down a goal of 1 for the year. The most I have ridden in a month so far this year is around 800 miles. I don't think I have ever ridden over 1,000 miles in a single month. I use the name of Musashi at bikejournal.
I have really been surprising myself with the avearge speeds I am getting on some of these rides.
I'm now over 2,100 miles for the year and almost 6,000 miles on the Musashi.
June 13th:
Distance: 50.78
Avg Speed: 20.0
Time: 2:32:38
Ride details
June 16th:
Distance: 50.54
Avg Speed: 18.8
Time: 2:41:18
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June 17th:
Distance: 52.55
Avg Speed: 19.1
Time: 2:44:58
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June 20th:
Distance: 50.73
Avg Speed: 18.8
Time: 2:41:45
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June 22th:
Distance: 52.02
Avg Speed: 20.6
Time: 2:31:42
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June 23rd:
Distance: 50.52
Avg Speed: 20.0
Time: 2:31:33
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June 24th: I think this is my fastest 30.
Distance: 30.35
Avg Speed: 21.1
Time: 1:26:22
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June 25th: Easy joy ride spent looking at roads to chang my main 50 mile route to avoid the downtown miles.
Distance: 16.52
Avg Speed: 18.1
Time: 2:32:3854:53
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June 27th:
Distance: 53.66
Avg Speed: 20.5
Time: 2:37:07
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June 29th: I felt very strong on this ride, the second half had an average speed over 21mph
Distance: 51.80
Avg Speed: 20.8
Time: 2:29:24
Ride details
Sunday, June 10, 2012
June 10th ride, The June Bug Jamboree Century
This is a great Century ride that starts at the Shelbyville high school. They had four rest stops stocked with homemade cookies, peanut butter celery sticks, bananas, etc. They even had the 'White River Sound Chorus' singing at a couple of the rest stops. The ride was hot but I was doing great, I brought an extra water bottle and some power bars to make sure I had plenty to eat and drink.
I had hit a pot hole pretty hard around the 25 miles mark. It was hidden by some tree shadows on the road. I had almost lost control of the bike and a water bottle bounced off onto the road. I had already been thinking of replacing the front tire, it has over 5,500 miles on it and begining to show its age. I'm sure this pot hole didn't help it any.
Around 40 miles later I noticed a thump, thump, thump sound, I wasn't sure if it was the road or something on a wheel. This sound went on and off for a few miles. I convinced myself it was just the way the road was constructed and forgot about it.
Then there was a very loud POP! sound.
Just as it was beginning to register that a tire must have popped, I was down on the asphalt. Closer inspection shows the front tire had split open and the inner tube had popped. The tire must have been ready to pop for a while, and making the thump sound every time the weak spot rolled around. If only I had listened to what my bike was telling me! The wreck also ripped off the side water bottle cage and the mount for the air pump. I ended up wire tying the air pump to the handlebars once I was ready to leave.
I ended up with some cuts and scrapes, nothing very bad, Lucky for me, I wasn't going very fast, although I'm sure I'll be sore tomorrow. I always carry some repair supplies with me, including a thick rubber boot for repairing busted tires. If I had noticed the problem before I allowed it to pop, the repair boot would have worked without an issue. But this tire rip was a few inches long making it unlikely a repair would work at all. I ended up putting in two boots. The inner tube also had a long rip in it so I replaced it as well.
I pumped up the tire lower then normal. The repair looked good, but I was going to be cautious, I didn't want to be flying down a hill and have it pop again. After 9 miles I started hearing the thump, thump again and knew the tire would most likely split open again. The next sag stop was about a mile away, so I rode the last mile to the sag stop, then called it quits for this Century ride.
I want to thank everyone that stopped and asked if I needed any help, this includes the church goers that offered me tea and fresh water. I'm sorry about the loud word I hollered when I crashed in front of your delegation...... not sure how that slipped out, but at least the videos audio wasn't working very well at the time.
Ride details (I forgot to turn off the GPS before I hitched a ride, so I had to manually cut off some of the ride, I ended up losing about 5 miles of the trip.)
Ride summary below:
Some videos:
The White River Sound Chorus at a SAG stop
The actual wreck, not sure what happened to the audio here.
The actual tire damage, still bad audio.
I may download some more videos later.
I had hit a pot hole pretty hard around the 25 miles mark. It was hidden by some tree shadows on the road. I had almost lost control of the bike and a water bottle bounced off onto the road. I had already been thinking of replacing the front tire, it has over 5,500 miles on it and begining to show its age. I'm sure this pot hole didn't help it any.
Around 40 miles later I noticed a thump, thump, thump sound, I wasn't sure if it was the road or something on a wheel. This sound went on and off for a few miles. I convinced myself it was just the way the road was constructed and forgot about it.
Then there was a very loud POP! sound.
Just as it was beginning to register that a tire must have popped, I was down on the asphalt. Closer inspection shows the front tire had split open and the inner tube had popped. The tire must have been ready to pop for a while, and making the thump sound every time the weak spot rolled around. If only I had listened to what my bike was telling me! The wreck also ripped off the side water bottle cage and the mount for the air pump. I ended up wire tying the air pump to the handlebars once I was ready to leave.
I ended up with some cuts and scrapes, nothing very bad, Lucky for me, I wasn't going very fast, although I'm sure I'll be sore tomorrow. I always carry some repair supplies with me, including a thick rubber boot for repairing busted tires. If I had noticed the problem before I allowed it to pop, the repair boot would have worked without an issue. But this tire rip was a few inches long making it unlikely a repair would work at all. I ended up putting in two boots. The inner tube also had a long rip in it so I replaced it as well.
I pumped up the tire lower then normal. The repair looked good, but I was going to be cautious, I didn't want to be flying down a hill and have it pop again. After 9 miles I started hearing the thump, thump again and knew the tire would most likely split open again. The next sag stop was about a mile away, so I rode the last mile to the sag stop, then called it quits for this Century ride.
I want to thank everyone that stopped and asked if I needed any help, this includes the church goers that offered me tea and fresh water. I'm sorry about the loud word I hollered when I crashed in front of your delegation...... not sure how that slipped out, but at least the videos audio wasn't working very well at the time.
Ride details (I forgot to turn off the GPS before I hitched a ride, so I had to manually cut off some of the ride, I ended up losing about 5 miles of the trip.)
Ride summary below:
The White River Sound Chorus at a SAG stop
The actual wreck, not sure what happened to the audio here.
I may download some more videos later.
June 8th ride
Took a little ride after work. I was a bit tired still from the last ride two days ago.
Ride details:
Ride summary below:
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Friday, June 8, 2012
June 6th ride
Went for a little ride after work. The wind was blowing from the East. Excellent ride with a great average speed. The average dropped by .2 mph when I hit three red lights in a row as I hit downtown.
One of the highlights of this loop are the rolling hills a couple of miles before Lake Santee.
I've uploaded a video of the red lights and the rolling hills below:
Ride details:
Ride summary below:
One of the highlights of this loop are the rolling hills a couple of miles before Lake Santee.
I've uploaded a video of the red lights and the rolling hills below:
Ride details:
Ride summary below:
Sunday, June 3, 2012
June 3rd ride, first of the month
Great morning for a ride, there was some constant wind from the West. Half way through the ride I had an average speed of 20.9, I think I could have hit 21 if it wasn't for the slow traffic around Lake Santee.
First there was a truck only going at 17 mph and driving left of center, I was behind him for 5 minutes before I could get around him. Then there was the golf cart that took a while to get around. I don't have any problem with the golf carts, Lake Santee is a golf cart community and you expect them, but I wasn't sure what to think of the truck, I started to think he was purposefully trying to block me.
It still turned out to be a great ride with an average speed of 20.1 MPH over a 50 mile loop with no breaks.
Ride details:
Ride summary below:
This is becoming my favorite loop this year. Usually the ride through downtown Greensburg will slow my average by 1 to 2 tenths of an average mph but this time I hit most of the lights when they were green.
Lake Santee slow truck:
Lake Santee Golf cart complete with kids:
First there was a truck only going at 17 mph and driving left of center, I was behind him for 5 minutes before I could get around him. Then there was the golf cart that took a while to get around. I don't have any problem with the golf carts, Lake Santee is a golf cart community and you expect them, but I wasn't sure what to think of the truck, I started to think he was purposefully trying to block me.
It still turned out to be a great ride with an average speed of 20.1 MPH over a 50 mile loop with no breaks.
Ride details:
Ride summary below:
This is becoming my favorite loop this year. Usually the ride through downtown Greensburg will slow my average by 1 to 2 tenths of an average mph but this time I hit most of the lights when they were green.
Lake Santee slow truck:
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