I'm a bit behind on my posting.....
I'm now over 1,200 miles for the year.
Highlights from this group:
May 3rd solo century and May 14th 60 miles under 3 hours.
Almost all average speeds are over 19 mph, even with the windy days.
April 18th ride:
26 miles with an avg speed of 19.4 mph.
Ride Details
April 26th ride:
31 miles with an avg speed of 18.0 mph.
Ride Details
April 29th ride:
36 miles with an avg of 19.3 mph.
Ride Details
May 3rd ride, first Solo Century of the year:
This is an all state highway ride.
Starting with US421 South from Greensburg, then taking US 62 through Madison, then US7 through North Vernon and ending up with US3 back through Greensburg.
102 miles with an avg of 18.1 mph.
Ride Details
May 8th ride:
40 miles with an avg of 19.8 mph.
Ride Details
May 9th ride:
10 miles with an avg of 20 mph.
Ride Details
May 10th ride:
26 miles with an avg of 19.8 mph.
Ride Details
May 11th ride:
50 miles with an avg of 20.1 mph.
Ride Details
May 14th ride, 60 miles under 3 hours with no breaks:
Great ride! Even better then last years, since last years was all smooth highway miles. This trip had some slow downtown miles, while the rest were county roads.
60 miles with an avg of 20.2 mph.
Ride Details
May 16th ride:
40 miles with an avg of 19.1 mph.
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May 17th ride:
40 miles with an avg of 19.9 mph.
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May 18th ride:
26 miles with an avg of 20.4 mph.
Ride Details
May 20th ride:
61 miles with an avg of 19.7 mph.
Ride Details
May 22nd ride:
24 miles with an avg of 20.3 mph.
Ride Details
May 23rd ride:
21 miles with an avg of 19.9 mph.
Ride Details
May 24th ride:
40 miles with an avg of 19.2 mph.
Ride Details
May 25th ride:
35 miles with an avg of 19.5 mph.
Ride Details
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
April 17th ride
The wind has finaly settled down a bit average wind speed 6 mph with gusts at 12 mph. It was overcast and a little chilly though, so I wore my jacket and long johns.
Ride details: Link
Ride summary:
Ride details: Link
Ride summary:
Monday, April 16, 2012
April 16th ride
Another very windy ride, when will it stop? Its good training, and I did push today, unlike yesterdays easy ride. Average wind was around 9 mph with 38 mph gusts.
You know its windy when you have trouble going down a hill! On this one nice down hill section I would normally hit close to 30 mph. Today I couldn't hit 19 mph, and I was trying hard!
I still got a decent average speed of 18.7 mph on a 35 mile trip.
Ride details: Link
Ride summary:
You know its windy when you have trouble going down a hill! On this one nice down hill section I would normally hit close to 30 mph. Today I couldn't hit 19 mph, and I was trying hard!
I still got a decent average speed of 18.7 mph on a 35 mile trip.
Ride details: Link
Ride summary:
Sunday, April 15, 2012
April 15th ride
Very windy day for a ride, I decided to take it easy today. Average speed of only 17 mph over 40 miles. Wind average of 16 mph with 40 mph gusts.
Ride details: Link
Ride summary:
Sign of a windy day. This stop sign was being blown around by the wind.
Ride details: Link
Ride summary:
Sign of a windy day. This stop sign was being blown around by the wind.
Sunday, April 8, 2012
April 7th ride
The sun was out, temps were in the mid to high 60's and the wind wasn't blowing too bad. Sounds like a great combination for a Saturday ride. Rode around Lake Santee then down towards the Greensburg park before heading home. The ride was excellent and fast with an average over 20 mph.
The heart monitor stopped working, so I'll try a new battery before the next ride; although I have been contemplating getting a newer style monitor.
Ride details: Link
Ride summary:
8 minute video from the ride:
The heart monitor stopped working, so I'll try a new battery before the next ride; although I have been contemplating getting a newer style monitor.
Ride details: Link
Ride summary:
8 minute video from the ride:
Friday, April 6, 2012
One year Anniversary with the Musashi
I bought the Musashi one year and 4,000 miles ago! I'm still excited about riding this bike! I definitely made the right choice. I've ridden around 350 miles so far this year, thanks to the unusually warm weather we are enjoying.
Here are the details from my very first at home ride on the Musashi: Ride Details
I remember being disapointed in the speed ( I averaged 14.6 mph over 30 miles), I was facing a strong wind from the West and wasn't quite used to the new ride.
Below is a catchup listing of the rides so far this year. I started a new 'motto' on the last couple of rides: Sprint up the hills. It has really made a difference as you can see on April 3rd, my first ever round trip with an average over 21 mph. I've had longer trips with higher averages, but never a complete round trip at this speed.
I haven't decided on any goals for the year yet. I'm just happy for the early warm weather.
February 29th: Ride Details
20 miles with an average of 17.0 mph
Hard to believe it was above 60 degrees in February!
March 6th: Ride Details
23 miles with an average of 18.2 mph
March: 7th: Ride Details
31 miles with an average of 19.2 mph
March 11th: Ride Details
40 miles with an average of 17.8 mph
March 13th: Ride Details
28.38 miles with an average of 19.0 mph
March 14th: Ride Details
21 miles with an average of 17.4 mph
March 18th: Ride Details
22 with an average of 17.7 mph
March 19th: Ride Details
20 miles with an average of 17.6 mph
March 21st: Ride Details
21 miles with an average of 19.3 mph
March 22nd: Ride Details
18 miles with an average of 19.1 mph
March 24th: Ride Details
29 miles with an average of 19.8 mph
March 29th: Ride Details
21 miles with an average of 20.5 mph
April 3rd: Ride Details
21 miles with an average of 21.2 mph!
Not much wind to slow me down today, and I powered through the hills for a real workout.
Here are the details from my very first at home ride on the Musashi: Ride Details
I remember being disapointed in the speed ( I averaged 14.6 mph over 30 miles), I was facing a strong wind from the West and wasn't quite used to the new ride.
Below is a catchup listing of the rides so far this year. I started a new 'motto' on the last couple of rides: Sprint up the hills. It has really made a difference as you can see on April 3rd, my first ever round trip with an average over 21 mph. I've had longer trips with higher averages, but never a complete round trip at this speed.
I haven't decided on any goals for the year yet. I'm just happy for the early warm weather.
February 29th: Ride Details
20 miles with an average of 17.0 mph
Hard to believe it was above 60 degrees in February!
March 6th: Ride Details
23 miles with an average of 18.2 mph
March: 7th: Ride Details
31 miles with an average of 19.2 mph
March 11th: Ride Details
40 miles with an average of 17.8 mph
March 13th: Ride Details
28.38 miles with an average of 19.0 mph
March 14th: Ride Details
21 miles with an average of 17.4 mph
March 18th: Ride Details
22 with an average of 17.7 mph
March 19th: Ride Details
20 miles with an average of 17.6 mph
March 21st: Ride Details
21 miles with an average of 19.3 mph
March 22nd: Ride Details
18 miles with an average of 19.1 mph
March 24th: Ride Details
29 miles with an average of 19.8 mph
March 29th: Ride Details
21 miles with an average of 20.5 mph
April 3rd: Ride Details
21 miles with an average of 21.2 mph!
Not much wind to slow me down today, and I powered through the hills for a real workout.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Being Obese
"You are obese"
I still remember the very moment the nurse said that to me. I was participating in the annual work place physical put on by our insurance company. What? Did I hear her right? I see obese people practically everyday, and I'm not one of them. Sure I'm overweight, but obese? No, never. My look must have given away my thoughts, as the nurse then added this to send the message home: "You are obese, there is no such thing as borderline or a little obese, you are either obese or your not, and you sir are obese." " You're also a borderline diabetic"
It took a while for that message to really sink in. At first I was like right, and your most likely part of that crowd that says Arnold Schwarzenegger is overweight. How can anyone say he's overweight? I then started to research it a bit myself. I found many online weight charts. They all seemed to agree, that my ideal weight should be around 135 to 167 pounds, depending on whether my frame size is small, medium or large. I weighed in at a little over 245 pounds! That meant I was as much as 110 pounds overweight.
How could this have happened? I remember back when I was growing up, my mom took me to the doctor since I would eat everything she put in front of me, and was as thin as a rail. I had to actually gain weight before the Navy would accept me back in 1982. When I left the Navy in 1990, I was still in great shape and riding my Cannondale road bike for great distances at some fast speeds.
Now fast forward to 2005 and I'm 100 pounds overweight and OBESE? This can't be, I am to limber for an obese person, I can touch the palms of my hands on the floor when I touch my toes. I can stand on my hands with my body parallel with the floor. I can ride a bike for twenty miles without any issue.
Then it started to hit me, I haven't really ridden my bike since the mid 1990s. There were also other little clues, I couldn't see my toes when I looked down at my feet.
I remember the first time I took my future wife to see my wonderful grandma, may she rest in peace. It had been a while since I had last seen her, and what was the first thing she said when I walked into her home? "Terry!" she exclaimed in shock, "You got big!" My wife and I could barely hold in the laughter.
Then there was the time my wife bought me some sweat pants that were one large size that fits all. Before I tried them on I grabbed their waistline and stretched them out with both hands, they must have stretched out over 3 feet across,
"How big do you think I am?!" I asked in shock.
"Just try them on, they are suppose to fit your size" She said.
"Do they look like they could fit?!", "You can fit two people in here easily.",
"Just try them on, I can return them if they don't fit."
So I tried them on, and to my horror, they fit very snugly and comfortably.
"Ne-ver mind" I sighed.
We still laugh about those times.
Little by little I began to realize the nurse was correct, I was in fact obese, even though none of my co-workers or my wife would believe it, yes they believed I was a little overweight, but not obese. Being overweight seemed to be the norm. After some searching on line I found that since my BMI was over 36, I was actually counted as a class 2 obese, or morbidly obese. Here is a simple chart to check your own BMI using height and weight: BMI Chart.
It has taken a while to get my weight in check, I still have a little way to go. At the close of 2010, I weighted in at 173 pounds, by the end of 2011, I weighted in at 199 pounds. I went backwards a few pounds last year. But 2011 was my first entire year under 200 pounds, so it was still a banner year for me. That was significant for me, since I had tried for years to get my weight under 200 pounds and never could until 2010. I never dieted at all in 2011, so riding the bike is the only thing that helped keep my weight down.
This year I made a new years resolution to be under 180 pounds by the end of March and then stay under 180 pounds for the rest of the year. So far I'm on track, at 178 pounds on the last day of March.
It wasn't a single motivation that helped me get my weight down, it was a combination of items. The largest contributor was the "Biggest loser contest" that my workplace held in 2010. I'll go over the different methods and motivations I have used to lose weight in future posts.
I've been a lazy poster so far this year. With all this great weather, I have already put on over 300 miles so far. I'll have to do a catchup post on all the rides.
I still remember the very moment the nurse said that to me. I was participating in the annual work place physical put on by our insurance company. What? Did I hear her right? I see obese people practically everyday, and I'm not one of them. Sure I'm overweight, but obese? No, never. My look must have given away my thoughts, as the nurse then added this to send the message home: "You are obese, there is no such thing as borderline or a little obese, you are either obese or your not, and you sir are obese." " You're also a borderline diabetic"
It took a while for that message to really sink in. At first I was like right, and your most likely part of that crowd that says Arnold Schwarzenegger is overweight. How can anyone say he's overweight? I then started to research it a bit myself. I found many online weight charts. They all seemed to agree, that my ideal weight should be around 135 to 167 pounds, depending on whether my frame size is small, medium or large. I weighed in at a little over 245 pounds! That meant I was as much as 110 pounds overweight.
How could this have happened? I remember back when I was growing up, my mom took me to the doctor since I would eat everything she put in front of me, and was as thin as a rail. I had to actually gain weight before the Navy would accept me back in 1982. When I left the Navy in 1990, I was still in great shape and riding my Cannondale road bike for great distances at some fast speeds.
Now fast forward to 2005 and I'm 100 pounds overweight and OBESE? This can't be, I am to limber for an obese person, I can touch the palms of my hands on the floor when I touch my toes. I can stand on my hands with my body parallel with the floor. I can ride a bike for twenty miles without any issue.
Then it started to hit me, I haven't really ridden my bike since the mid 1990s. There were also other little clues, I couldn't see my toes when I looked down at my feet.
I remember the first time I took my future wife to see my wonderful grandma, may she rest in peace. It had been a while since I had last seen her, and what was the first thing she said when I walked into her home? "Terry!" she exclaimed in shock, "You got big!" My wife and I could barely hold in the laughter.
Then there was the time my wife bought me some sweat pants that were one large size that fits all. Before I tried them on I grabbed their waistline and stretched them out with both hands, they must have stretched out over 3 feet across,
"How big do you think I am?!" I asked in shock.
"Just try them on, they are suppose to fit your size" She said.
"Do they look like they could fit?!", "You can fit two people in here easily.",
"Just try them on, I can return them if they don't fit."
So I tried them on, and to my horror, they fit very snugly and comfortably.
"Ne-ver mind" I sighed.
We still laugh about those times.
Little by little I began to realize the nurse was correct, I was in fact obese, even though none of my co-workers or my wife would believe it, yes they believed I was a little overweight, but not obese. Being overweight seemed to be the norm. After some searching on line I found that since my BMI was over 36, I was actually counted as a class 2 obese, or morbidly obese. Here is a simple chart to check your own BMI using height and weight: BMI Chart.
It has taken a while to get my weight in check, I still have a little way to go. At the close of 2010, I weighted in at 173 pounds, by the end of 2011, I weighted in at 199 pounds. I went backwards a few pounds last year. But 2011 was my first entire year under 200 pounds, so it was still a banner year for me. That was significant for me, since I had tried for years to get my weight under 200 pounds and never could until 2010. I never dieted at all in 2011, so riding the bike is the only thing that helped keep my weight down.
This year I made a new years resolution to be under 180 pounds by the end of March and then stay under 180 pounds for the rest of the year. So far I'm on track, at 178 pounds on the last day of March.
It wasn't a single motivation that helped me get my weight down, it was a combination of items. The largest contributor was the "Biggest loser contest" that my workplace held in 2010. I'll go over the different methods and motivations I have used to lose weight in future posts.
I've been a lazy poster so far this year. With all this great weather, I have already put on over 300 miles so far. I'll have to do a catchup post on all the rides.
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