Double nine, 99, is how many miles I rode over this long weekend. It started off with the great 45ish miler on Saturday, followed up by a little easier 30 on Sunday and I capped it all off with a solo 28 mile ride on Monday. I felt really good during Saturday and Sundays rides, but at about mile 18 or so on Monday my legs were starting to say no more and the last 5 or so miles were just tough. I pushed through it and still managed to grab a few Strava personal achievements, 15 in total for the ride.
Today will be a much needed day of rest as thunderstorms are predicted for this afternoon. Should give me a little time to get to that Bike Loot review.
Here is a scenic photo from Mondays ride. Views like that make cycling all that much better.
So where did you ride this weekend?
Thanks to the weather and life in general almost one week had passed since I last got on my bike. So I was a little apprehensive about todays club ride, it was to be the longest so far this year – 45 miles – and I really wasn’t sure how I’d do, considering my longest prior was 32. I probably shouldn’t have given the extra distance a second thought but I had visions of me holding the whole group up and embarrassing myself. Well to make a long story short, it was an awesome ride. I felt strong the whole way, was up with the leaders the whole day and felt like I could do another 20 at the end of the ride. So I guess the moral of this story is a little rest does the body good. Not that I want to take whole weeks off again, but if it happens I won’t worry so much about it.
Well I’m back from my vacation in sunny FLA. We had great weather, saw a lot of stuff (yet still didn’t get to everything) and overall had a magical time! Sadly one of the things we didn’t get to do is get over to Fort Wilderness and rent some bikes. We did get to run on the 1 mile trail outside our resort besides walking miles and miles around the parks we got some “real” exercise in. And in full disclosure, I didn’t actually run all that much on the trail, it was more like a quick walk that ended early for me – I should have waited to have the Mickey waffle and bacon until AFTER the run. The girlfriend had a good run though, first since her injury and using the C25k program.
And climbing we did.
