Today I got in a 41 mile ride along the beach. Its pretty flat until the last 5 miles where it’s almost all uphill. I felt great during the ride, like I was going faster at a lower heart rate than before. I averaged a heart rate of 156 bpm and the max was 177 [...]
but I pretty much achieved what I wanted to. I did far more reading than I expected, over 1100 pages. I did far less cycling than I expected, about 200 miles and I probably watched about 15 hours of tv in total.
I think I will continue to read one book per month while I try [...]
I have probably watched 6-7 hours of television total, which is about where I expected to be at this point. I have finished two books - Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong and Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. That makes 720 pages in total so I’ve already exceeded my goal there. I started The Green [...]
This weekend I ventured north, escaping the confines of sunny So Cal for a weekend in Solvang, an old Danish mining town with lots of cool shops and what not. The second week of March every year there’s a huge bike ride with over 5,000 people in it. The population of Solvang is only 5,000 [...]
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I wanted to go out and ride with a group this weekend for a couple of reasons - 1) to meet some people from the club I want to join and 2) to get a feel for my fitness level against other guys. Riding by yourself all the time gives you a false sense of [...]
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I was all psyched to put in some big mileage in my new shoes and pedals this weekend and what happens? I flat 25 miles into a planned 40 mile ride. I couldn’t find the leak so I used my CO2 cartridge to top off the tire, hoping that would get me home or close [...]
Nothing to say that I want people to read lately so I’ll talk about bike stuff. I bought a new pair of shoes and pedal system for my bike. I’ve been using Carnac Quartz shoes and old ass Shimano SPD pedals for about 5 years now and it was time for a change. Now it’s [...]