Friday, April 24, 2009

Sunshinewindriffic

What a fantastic day of riding and eating!!!
Didn't intend on pushing anything, but the headwind on the way home made work happen >pooof<

So:
Spoke Break
Spoke Repair
Red Hearts on white field
Superdawg
handlebar
Wind

Thursday, April 23, 2009

No sausage...no love

Just a lot of fuckin rain.

20 MPH SE wind 40 degrees and light rain = 12.8 MPH and a pissy pissy rider



Thank you to MBV for helping me survive this crappy day

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Sore legs, sore back

I'm getting scared of hills
but i do like the tear filled descents

Monday, April 13, 2009

Two-fer gentle hill climb

So i'm realizing now that Map My Ride is great for thinking about and communicating routes but really bad at estimating altitude differences.

We had a fantastic twofer this weekend based around some sound principles:

1) Wake n Bike
2) eat light, but eat at good intervals
3) warm up before climbing
4) ride easy, the hills will make it hard when you hit em.


FANTASTIC results:

Saturday's Route

Beautiful and easy till that one hill



Sunday's Route

Check out the elevation profile on this one...looks gentle...the hill on bluff is constant and serious