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Todays ride
This mornings ride, this is a trick / page right out of our friend bbaka's
book of tricks. I left my house at about 10:05 and took my normal 1 hour route, actually it is closer to about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Now my legs don't work too well for about the first 10 to 15 minutes, which is probably a normal warm up period. So I was riding through my neighborhood, but I didn't see any of the riders I usually see. But that is probably because I started about an hour later than normal. So I am cycling along, enjoying my ride, not pressing to hard but not taking it easy either. Just a moderate to high-moderate pace working more on keeping a constant cadence. I checked my time, yeap right on my normal time, right on my normal amount of sweating. Wind is very variable today, seems to be mostly out of the east / southeast, again pretty normal for Florida in the beginning of May. Started making my way back towards my house, 30 to 40 minutes into my ride, passed by a little pond got to see some cranes feeding in the shallow waters, I wonder how many MV people take time to notice such things, I would think probably not that many. 50 minutes into my ride my direction changed and turned into a head wind, had to drop down 2 gears to maintained my cadence, so my speed dropped down, probably from 12 to 8 mph. Fought the wind the rest of the way back to my house. I parked my bike, went inside, wiped the sweat from my face, and started to rehydrate. That was a good first lap, the lack of a cyclocomputer leaves me guessing about distance and speed, but knowing about how fast I can ride, I would say it was probably about 12 or 13 miles. So now I am at home cooling down for about 15 minutes. Now comes lap number 2! Lap 2 begins better because I have no warm up period! This is the first time I have tried this back to back lap thing! To my surprise I did not seem to sweat as much, maybe I didn't rehydrate enough. Anyway the second lap was not as difficult as I had thought it would be. I think that after the second lap, I could have done the rehydrate and cool down thing for 15 or 20 minutes and then done another lap. But this being the first time I had tried this little ditty of a trick, I decides not to try it. Maybe after a few more 2 lap rides I will try a 3 lap ride. Thanks for the little trick / tip there bbaka! I think I need some bottle cages and bottles! Ken -- Remove "-dispose-trash" for email address My personal webstie: http://kcm-home.tripod.com/ My blog: http://mind-dribble.blogspot.com/ |
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Ken wrote:
This mornings ride, this is a trick / page right out of our friend bbaka's book of tricks. I left my house at about 10:05 and took my normal 1 hour route, actually it is closer to about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Now my legs don't work too well for about the first 10 to 15 minutes, which is probably a normal warm up period. So I was riding through my neighborhood, but I didn't see any of the riders I usually see. But that is probably because I started about an hour later than normal. So I am cycling along, enjoying my ride, not pressing to hard but not taking it easy either. Just a moderate to high-moderate pace working more on keeping a constant cadence. I checked my time, yeap right on my normal time, right on my normal amount of sweating. Wind is very variable today, seems to be mostly out of the east / southeast, again pretty normal for Florida in the beginning of May. Started making my way back towards my house, 30 to 40 minutes into my ride, passed by a little pond got to see some cranes feeding in the shallow waters, I wonder how many MV people take time to notice such things, I would think probably not that many. 50 minutes into my ride my direction changed and turned into a head wind, had to drop down 2 gears to maintained my cadence, so my speed dropped down, probably from 12 to 8 mph. Fought the wind the rest of the way back to my house. I parked my bike, went inside, wiped the sweat from my face, and started to rehydrate. That was a good first lap, the lack of a cyclocomputer leaves me guessing about distance and speed, but knowing about how fast I can ride, I would say it was probably about 12 or 13 miles. So now I am at home cooling down for about 15 minutes. Now comes lap number 2! Lap 2 begins better because I have no warm up period! This is the first time I have tried this back to back lap thing! To my surprise I did not seem to sweat as much, maybe I didn't rehydrate enough. Anyway the second lap was not as difficult as I had thought it would be. I think that after the second lap, I could have done the rehydrate and cool down thing for 15 or 20 minutes and then done another lap. But this being the first time I had tried this little ditty of a trick, I decides not to try it. Maybe after a few more 2 lap rides I will try a 3 lap ride. Thanks for the little trick / tip there bbaka! I think I need some bottle cages and bottles! Ken You got it mostly right. I kind of reserve those neighborhood area rides for days when business could happen and I don't want to be out of reach or when it could rain and blow a long trip. I have done that up to about 12 times in one day and wound up with a slightly different experience every lap. Sometimes I vary the route and go riding on top of the river levees around here and meet a lot of people walking. It makes it more interesting to change a little, stop and watch the ducks watch me, or poke around some unexplored piece of land where the old railroad tracks have been pulled and wonder what was there 50 years ago. I may have accumulated 80-90 miles on the longest day, but there was always an iced drink waiting for me within about 5 miles so I never had to worry about loading up the bike. In the city I can just stop at a park and find a water fountain or a store and buy a slushie. Variety is great. Social tours may not count as training, but so what? Bill Baka |
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Now comes lap number 2! Lap 2 begins better
because I have no warm up period! This is the first time I have tried this back to back lap thing! To my surprise I did not seem to sweat as much, maybe I didn't rehydrate enough. Anyway the second lap was not as difficult as I had thought it would be. I think that after the second lap, I could have done the rehydrate and cool down thing for 15 or 20 minutes and then done another lap. But this being the first time I had tried this little ditty of a trick, I decides not to try it. Maybe after a few more 2 lap rides I will try a 3 lap ride. Shoulda gone for it. You're probably hitting a peak! Enjoyable post. ;-) jj |
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"jj" wrote in message ... Now comes lap number 2! Lap 2 begins better because I have no warm up period! This is the first time I have tried this back to back lap thing! To my surprise I did not seem to sweat as much, maybe I didn't rehydrate enough. Anyway the second lap was not as difficult as I had thought it would be. I think that after the second lap, I could have done the rehydrate and cool down thing for 15 or 20 minutes and then done another lap. But this being the first time I had tried this little ditty of a trick, I decides not to try it. Maybe after a few more 2 lap rides I will try a 3 lap ride. Shoulda gone for it. You're probably hitting a peak! Enjoyable post. ;-) No I don't think I have hit a peak, I really did feel like I could have done another lap, but I also didn't want to over do it, and be feeling it for the next two day. I have been slowly building up my times and distances, I want to do a 50 or 75 mile ride by the end of the summer. Ken jj |
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