Asleep at the Bars

Sunshinewindriffic

2009-04-24T07:26:00.000-07:00

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

04/24/2009SUperdawg
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No sausage...no love

2009-04-23T07:11:00.000-07:00

Just a lot of fuckin rain.

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

09 Harvard Route
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Thank you to MBV for helping me survive this crappy day

Sore legs, sore back

2009-04-18T18:03:00.000-07:00

I'm getting scared of hills
but i do like the tear filled descents
04/18/2009 Blue Mounds HHH pieces Route
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Two-fer gentle hill climb

2009-04-13T15:51:00.000-07:00

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

Blue Mounds Training Loop
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Sunday's Route

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

Devil\'s Lake 16 Mile circuit
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Owch

2009-03-23T18:46:00.000-07:00

So, J and I fired up the first RDC team ride of the season and were embraced by the beautiful beautiful countryside of Dane and Columbia Counties.

Downward Sp Roxbury
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This may or may not keep YOU from training

2009-03-08T15:37:00.000-07:00

Pretty Clear that my emotional Stop-point was July Last year

2009-03-05T13:27:00.000-08:00

I'm back. Just finished the clean-up following the second serious outdoor ride of the season, first fun ride of the year. 20 miles. Legs felt good lungs felt bad. Thats a bit worry some but better than the other way round.

So much shit still on the road here, but fantastic weather. Flatted slowly at 18mile and decided to ride it in (patching as we speak. Saw a few others out biking ALL of them dressed as though it were 10 degrees. Proof IMHO that they didn't bike when it was 10 degrees.

K thought I was slow today, but the #s don't lie 20.36 MPH this bodes well.

South Lake Arboretum Loop
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Song of the day: Silversun Pickups: Well Thought Out Twinkles retro 90s but solid. Good voice.

Dane Solo Century

2008-07-06T15:33:00.000-07:00

Just in. Hillier finish than I had thought, bring your granny gears.

7 Hr saddle time 22.55 KPH

Will post pics in picasa album shortly

NW Dane Century
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Trying to have faith in Blogger again

2008-06-30T06:21:00.001-07:00

Alrighty, So D. and his ultra light carbon feather led me on exactly what my legs needed post NYC. We took Sunday morning to hammer out this route. Ave. 24.5 KPH. Perfect weather. Of interest to those that know and hate/love the Dunlop Hollow Hill o Death, This route marks the elevation and steepness of that climb perfectly (~65K ish).

The route is an accidental modifacation of the Bombay Bicycle Club, Madison's Rock'n to Roxbury (one wonders why not just make it Rockn2RXBRY)

Modified BBC Roxbury Loop
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Blogger and Spam

2008-06-26T09:47:00.000-07:00

So I'm assuming that my Blog is back up and running. For the last 4 weeks I've had to make 3 separate requests for Blogger to unblock this blog as they thought it was spam. Frustrating and really rather useless for someone to use as a communication tool.

I certainly have discouraged others from using Blogger.

Weds Training ride

2008-05-29T08:50:00.000-07:00

really so-so ride

about 26.5 K ave

no good musical notes...

man this sounds shitty, it wasn't

Long South Lake Loop
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Sunday wine run

2008-05-23T22:56:00.001-07:00

All right! So we ran the run on sunday!

There will undoubtedly be a ride report from our dear new riding partner, but suffice it to say, "Christ, thats a lot of fuckin' hills!"

Song highlight? Thanks J, Mag Fields

5/21 Ride

2008-05-22T09:04:00.000-07:00

40 K

27k/hr

Route: Start Monroe St./Downhill Arboretum/Clockwise Mendota 1.5x/end Cronometro

Song highlights:

One Word Kelly Osbourne

New Chain

2008-05-22T08:57:00.000-07:00

I'm having A. over at the amazing Cronometro give my 520 a once-over. I know I'm going to have a new chain on it when its done and finally have all 27 cogs available. I'm actually giddy at the thought of having a clean, functioning transmission.

The day prior, I restrung my derailleur cables and wrapped my bars. So the 520 is moving into its '08 incarnation.

I do love that machine, I wonder if there's room in my life for a light touring bike for the LONG (>300k) and fast rides, or if I should spend my bike cash on modifying the 520.

Welcome

2008-05-22T08:53:00.000-07:00

Honestly, this is just for me to keep a loose touring journal.

I'm starting to infect all my friends blogs with my current two wheeled obsession.

Hopefully, music picture and experiences from the two wheels will be recorded here.