So I have been absent, and I am not going to try and go back over all those lost and lonely days, but I will talk about yesterday.
As many of you know the middle sisters (check out our blog themiddlesisters.blogspot.com for our upcoming trip) are getting ready to go on a trip in a month, and in that particular trip we are doing a couple of things that I am not 100 percent comfortable with.
Lets start with the easy one first. We are doing a multi-sport trip through Bhutan for the first week. In that multi-sport trip we are biking anywhere from 10-35 miles a day. Up to yesterday I really hadn't been on a bike, just kind of pretending it wasn't going to happen. Well not really, but I did keep telling myself that I could always take the sag wagon if it got to hard.
So I finally broke down and decided that I probably should do a couple of rides before we go, so since I know the east bay better for riding then SF I decided I would do an old ride from my previous training.
Now the only thing I really have to say about the ride was that I decided to start my training on the hottest day of the year at the hottest time of the day. I did finish the ride, but I was miserable.
Furthermore, I thought the ride was 26 miles, so I kept telling myself that by the time I hit the 13 mile mark I could decide to turn around. I was pretty sure that I was going to turn around before I hit the 13 mile mark, but I found out the ride was only 14 miles, so actually that was a good thing, but I am now glad I didn't turn around at the 12 mile mark.
So I talked to T2 about it and asked how fast she rode. She said that she did between 18-20 miles an hour, and I thought oh good, I did that part of the way, she wouldn't be outriding me too much.
So to continue my training I went out again today. Another scorcher, it was 96 degrees by the time I got out of the car and on the road, but since I was by the bay I did have a a bit of wind. In fact going out I was so proud that I was riding into the wind and doing 17-18 mph, I thought wow T2 is going to eat my dust, just think how fast I will be coming back with the wind at my back.
Well, umm, yea, the wind was at my back going out. Coming back I was lucky to get up to 14 mph. As I panted my way home I was going slow enough to notice the flags and which way the flags were blowing. Hmm. I rode 20 miles in 90 minutes - flat flat flat. I now have my first finger blister (I hold the bike with my pinky and I always would get blisters on my pinky, if I held the bike correctly I probably wouldn't get blisters ya know.)
Anyway I was thinking of doing 33 miles Thursday, but now I am definitely having second thoughts, especially if it stays this hot. Well we will see.
As many of you know the middle sisters (check out our blog themiddlesisters.blogspot.com for our upcoming trip) are getting ready to go on a trip in a month, and in that particular trip we are doing a couple of things that I am not 100 percent comfortable with.
Lets start with the easy one first. We are doing a multi-sport trip through Bhutan for the first week. In that multi-sport trip we are biking anywhere from 10-35 miles a day. Up to yesterday I really hadn't been on a bike, just kind of pretending it wasn't going to happen. Well not really, but I did keep telling myself that I could always take the sag wagon if it got to hard.
So I finally broke down and decided that I probably should do a couple of rides before we go, so since I know the east bay better for riding then SF I decided I would do an old ride from my previous training.
Now the only thing I really have to say about the ride was that I decided to start my training on the hottest day of the year at the hottest time of the day. I did finish the ride, but I was miserable.
Furthermore, I thought the ride was 26 miles, so I kept telling myself that by the time I hit the 13 mile mark I could decide to turn around. I was pretty sure that I was going to turn around before I hit the 13 mile mark, but I found out the ride was only 14 miles, so actually that was a good thing, but I am now glad I didn't turn around at the 12 mile mark.
So I talked to T2 about it and asked how fast she rode. She said that she did between 18-20 miles an hour, and I thought oh good, I did that part of the way, she wouldn't be outriding me too much.
So to continue my training I went out again today. Another scorcher, it was 96 degrees by the time I got out of the car and on the road, but since I was by the bay I did have a a bit of wind. In fact going out I was so proud that I was riding into the wind and doing 17-18 mph, I thought wow T2 is going to eat my dust, just think how fast I will be coming back with the wind at my back.
Well, umm, yea, the wind was at my back going out. Coming back I was lucky to get up to 14 mph. As I panted my way home I was going slow enough to notice the flags and which way the flags were blowing. Hmm. I rode 20 miles in 90 minutes - flat flat flat. I now have my first finger blister (I hold the bike with my pinky and I always would get blisters on my pinky, if I held the bike correctly I probably wouldn't get blisters ya know.)
Anyway I was thinking of doing 33 miles Thursday, but now I am definitely having second thoughts, especially if it stays this hot. Well we will see.
Welcome back to Adventures in Swimming - we missed you double plus muchly, T,T & T
ReplyDeleteTwila averaging 18-20 mph!!!!! Was that downhill in Colorado??? We used to only average about 13-15mph tops, so I'm mondo impressed.
Yay blog & many thanks