After doing nothing more than the occasional random commute ride in who knows how long, I decided to drag my ass out of bed at 5:00 this morning and take a bit of a ride. It was good to get out there for some saddle time, and I'm probably calmer this morning (coming back from a week's vacation) for having done it. But the numbers are kind of ( Read more... )

distance: 25.6 miles
ride time: 1:39:09
avg speed: 15.4 mph
avg cadence: 88 rpm

That's what three weeks out of the saddle will do to a fellow. Slow, slow, slow, slow.

I was averaging 16.9 mph when I turned back toward the house...and into the wind. I ended up running out of daylight, getting a little cold, and kinda running out of gas.

distance: 25.6 miles
ride time: 1:39:16
avg speed: 15.4 mph
max speed: 37.0 mph
avg cadence: 90 rpm
max cadence: 114 rpm

Two weeks between rides? No risk of over-training at this rate. To be fair, I've done a few commuting rides that I don't document, including 3 miles each way to and from Tim's on Sunday morning, a few hours before this jaunt ( Read more... )

I have arrived at the decision to ride Cycle North Carolina this October (the last time I rode it was in 2007), and yesterday could be counted as my first ride that was specifically in training for that tour. I got the Trek out of the shed, pumped the (depressingly soft) tires up to 140 psi, loaded some electrolytes in my water bottles, and headed ( Read more... )

distance: 12.5 mi
ride time: 0:50:18
avg speed: 14.9 mph
max speed: 33.5 mph

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There was a time when I wouldn't have posted a morning commute. But that was back when I was on my bike on a regular basis, and a simple ride to work was nothing to write home about. These days, I haven't taken a real ride in … well, far too long … and the only reason I even rode to work today was because my truck's in the shop. It's kinda pathetic ( Read more... )

...but here it is.


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I got out for a 20-miler yesterday afternoon, in 90+° heat, after mowing the lawn and repacking the camping gear, and running on a sleep debt. The numbers don't show it, but unlike last week this ride was all open road; no puttering around on narrow little mixed-use trails. I'm going to consider these numbers my new training baseline (as in, the ( Read more... )