Exercise Anyone?????????????

[artwebb]

That's awesome, flip18436572, best of luck.
Tonight two fifteen min rides, totaling an indicated 10+ miles. Splitting up the rides is working well so far.
Jeanne did her two fiteen min rides and worked out on the Total Gym.
This peice of equipment is working out well, too, and probably will for quite some time as long as I retain the patience for changing setups between exersices.

[mk10108]

Saturday attempted 150 and came up short 30 miles. 5 miles out and wondered if I remembered my shorts. Quick inspection confirmed I didn't and returned home. There they were, just as I left them, on the Burley. Now the temperature was up so stripped the long leggings, removed the wool and relayered in cotton shirts. Wondered if this foretold how the remainder of the ride would shake out.

Rode well until one mile from the first break, when speed slowed due to a half flat. Located the near invisible sliver wire, swapped tube and rolled to the CO OP for a fuel stop. Acquired grub and when the cashier asked if I had a card; said no but do you get any points for riding 39 miles to get here? She winked entered the code and instant discount. Love flows when one bends a rule.

Retraced the route across the causeway and guess a shortcut to the River trial. Success came with another flat and calculating miles remaining, number of spares verses tire cartridges decided patch the tube. Mounted up and 5 miles later, on a quick, decline S turn, got another message stating gravity may not be your friend. Traversing the apex the rear slid and steering became interesting. Recovered only because elbows were bent and speed was less than 15 mph....bad patch placement the culprit and took time making repair right.

Turn around at 78 miles found me chatting up Glen look alike. Headed out and found myself pulling 18+. Held that for 10 miles before backing off to 15. Another short break at 100 and legs became stone. Headwind didn't suggest I had to work for it, the dragon said not today. Full tuck averaged 10 mph while spokes hummed an off tune key. Fought to stay the bike lane and realized putting a buck fifty on the belt belongs to another day. Averaged 13.7

[Fenlason]

I did a 40 minute run and then came home and signed up for a half ironman triathlon. That is a 1.2 mile swim a 56 mile bike and then a 13.1 mile run. My goal is to complete that event, not to compete in it at all.

My training is going to really be tricky with my work schedule, my daughter's high school graduation, my band commitments, and keeping my family happy also. I am glad I have a wife that understands me and is willing to help me make it work. I want to do a full ironman at some point, and this is a stepping stone.

I can't fathom trying to fit in the training required to do that.. or at least for normal..working family man...

good luck.

[Fenlason]

Saturday we have a good group ride. We had decent sun.. temps were warmish, not hot. We did have some wind... but it was not brutal. The middle of the ride was in on roads we had never been on. We also had a lot of hills.

We had a couple of slower people we had to stop or slow down for some.. so it hurt the actual ave. speed numbers.. with occasionally slowing for them.. or turning back. But we still road hard enough in enough places to get a great work out.

We had a head wind on the return loop..so we went to the front and got on the aerobars ... and semi hammered away. We still ended with an 18 ave.

[Fenlason]

Saturday attempted 150 and came up short 30 miles. 5 miles out and wondered if I remembered my shorts. Quick inspection confirmed I didn't and returned home. There they were, just as I left them, on the Burley. Now the temperature was up so stripped the long leggings, removed the wool and relayered in cotton shirts. Wondered if this foretold how the remainder of the ride would shake out.

Rode well until one mile from the first break, when speed slowed due to a half flat. Located the near invisible sliver wire, swapped tube and rolled to the CO OP for a fuel stop. Acquired grub and when the cashier asked if I had a card; said no but do you get any points for riding 39 miles to get here? She winked entered the code and instant discount. Love flows when one bends a rule.

Retraced the route across the causeway and guess a shortcut to the River trial. Success came with another flat and calculating miles remaining, number of spares verses tire cartridges decided patch the tube. Mounted up and 5 miles later, on a quick, decline S turn, got another message stating gravity may not be your friend. Traversing the apex the rear slid and steering became interesting. Recovered only because elbows were bent and speed was less than 15 mph....bad patch placement the culprit and took time making repair right.

Turn around at 78 miles found me chatting up Glen look alike. Headed out and found myself pulling 18+. Held that for 10 miles before backing off to 15. Another short break at 100 and legs became stone. Headwind didn't suggest I had to work for it, the dragon said not today. Full tuck averaged 10 mph while spokes hummed an off tune key. Fought to stay the bike lane and realized putting a buck fifty on the belt belongs to another day. Averaged 13.7

good ride...

some days it just isn't there.

I remember one century we were getting ready to do. It was a scheduled supported club ride. The weekend before we were out doing a training ride on part of the loop. The 3 of us were riding well, feeling good. I thought.. "lets just do the century today.. to get it over with, of the" At around 80 miles.. we hit the wall pretty hard. I think we could have finished the ride ok.. but we were attempting a fast ride.. and decided to wait, until the following week.

About 3/4's of the way through the loop there was a flatter section that we would really hammer on. We ended up needing to back off on this section a little. The following week we met our goal.. despite a nasty wind.

[flip18436572]

I can't fathom trying to fit in the training required to do that.. or at least for normal..working family man...

good luck.

That is OK, my wife doesn't think I am normal, so it works out just fine.

[Fenlason]

I can't fathom trying to fit in the training required to do that.. or at least for normal..working family man...

good luck.

That is OK, my wife doesn't think I am normal, so it works out just fine.

perfect...

[mk10108]

good ride...

some days it just isn't there.

I remember one century we were getting ready to do. It was a scheduled supported club ride. The weekend before we were out doing a training ride on part of the loop. The 3 of us were riding well, feeling good. I thought.. "lets just do the century today.. to get it over with, of the" At around 80 miles.. we hit the wall pretty hard. I think we could have finished the ride ok.. but we were attempting a fast ride.. and decided to wait, until the following week.

About 3/4's of the way through the loop there was a flatter section that we would really hammer on. We ended up needing to back off on this section a little. The following week we met our goal.. despite a nasty wind.

My crew just reported finishing their 1st century. Now the Thursday's evening 22 mile spin won't qualify as a warm up.

Yep that 80 mile wall can be a pain, but that wall is slowly receding and I don't even think about rolling a hundred, just get on the bike and go. Hardest part is maintaining discipline to average 14-15 mph. Fail that and beyond 100 miles you can feel energy draining from your body. No doubt I had time & energy to do 150 but used it up on repairing flats and fighting wind. I'll keep rolling the 120's and wait for calm weather.

[mk10108]

I can't fathom trying to fit in the training required to do that.. or at least for normal..working family man...

good luck.

That is OK, my wife doesn't think I am normal, so it works out just fine.

My Mrs. thinks I'm nuts....I'm starting to agree with her assessment.

[artwebb]

Wow, Flip, sounds like a real Murphy's Law day, hope the next time is better.
Back when I used a bicycle for everyday transportation my whole family though I was nuts, even though thirty minutes on the bike would take me most places a car would take me in fifteen.

My night off tonight, though I did load ten forty pound bags of potting soil for one customer (two at a time) and four fifty pound bags of deer corn for another (also two at a time) Nowadays my customers think I'm nuts

Jeanne did two fifteen min rides, and her back started bothering her, may need to raise seat again.
That reminds me. Sometimes when I'm hammering on the exercise bike I get pain along the long groin muscles in the inner thighs. Bad positioning? Don't recall ever having this before on a bike of any sort.

[Fenlason]

good ride...

some days it just isn't there.

I remember one century we were getting ready to do. It was a scheduled supported club ride. The weekend before we were out doing a training ride on part of the loop. The 3 of us were riding well, feeling good. I thought.. "lets just do the century today.. to get it over with, of the" At around 80 miles.. we hit the wall pretty hard. I think we could have finished the ride ok.. but we were attempting a fast ride.. and decided to wait, until the following week.

About 3/4's of the way through the loop there was a flatter section that we would really hammer on. We ended up needing to back off on this section a little. The following week we met our goal.. despite a nasty wind.

My crew just reported finishing their 1st century. Now the Thursday's evening 22 mile spin won't qualify as a warm up.

Yep that 80 mile wall can be a pain, but that wall is slowly receding and I don't even think about rolling a hundred, just get on the bike and go. Hardest part is maintaining discipline to average 14-15 mph. Fail that and beyond 100 miles you can feel energy draining from your body. No doubt I had time & energy to do 150 but used it up on repairing flats and fighting wind. I'll keep rolling the 120's and wait for calm weather.

yes.. with what you do for mileage.. you just get on and go.

This century was my wife's first. It was a scheduled organized ride. and we were hoping to do it in less than 5 hours. So we had a little anxiety the night before.

She is better than she thinks she is.. so confidence is sometimes an issue.

When I first got her into riding.. she used to complain about the hills.. "I can't do it...etc". At that time she was climbing hills at a faster speed than her ave. for the ride.

[Fenlason]

I can't fathom trying to fit in the training required to do that.. or at least for normal..working family man...

good luck.

That is OK, my wife doesn't think I am normal, so it works out just fine.

My Mrs. thinks I'm nuts....I'm starting to agree with her assessment.

well yeah.. in your case...

[Fenlason]

That reminds me. Sometimes when I'm hammering on the exercise bike I get pain along the long groin muscles in the inner thighs. Bad positioning? Don't recall ever having this before on a bike of any sort.

hmm I am not sure. I have never had that problem.. and I am not sure I have heard of it, until one of my riding buddies started having problems.

His are just generally tight.. and it takes him a while into the ride before they loosen up. He is fit.. his form / technique is good, and the bike fits good. He does not stretch much though.

One possibility for you.. being an exercise "bike" the pedals might be too far apart.... that might aggravate the situation.

[Fenlason]

another brutally windy day. We did ride.. 4 of us.. two tandems. The other couple wanted an easier day.. and with the wind.. we only did 25 miles.

It was a handful to keep the bike on the road in some places. I was pretty sure we were headed off once.

[Fenlason]

After the ride, I tried checking weather sites.. to see how windy it was. I was seeing numbers in the teens... There was no way it was just in the teens.

This morning they said when the front came through we had winds in the mid 50's

I am not sure that we hit any of that.. but I would have said that some of the gusts hit around 40. In some places we had a lot of downed branches to avoid.