racethenation
05-18-08, 08:19 PM
It was a great weekend for riding. I knocked off 12 miles on Friday morning before work. Saturday morning I got up and took my 7 year old daughter riding around the neighborhood looking for yard sales. We were trying to find her a bike with 20 inch wheels to replace the 16" that she had way out grown. I told her that she could not have a new one until she learned to ride well without training wheels. She finally did that about a month ago. We ended up riding about 2.5 miles. We gave up and went to Target and I wound up buying her a new Schwinn 24" Mtb. After some brief adjustments she took off on it with no problem.
Our local cycling club does a R.A.M. (Ride a Metric) training series that starts in May and culminates with our big century event in the fall. I found out about it last week and went and joined them Saturday afternoon for a 13 mile ride. We had a couple of new people besides myself, a few club members who enjoyed the slower pace, and a few club instructors. I learned a ton. It is a whole different world riding in a group than the solo rides that I have been doing. We will be riding weekly until the fall, within an increase in distance of about two miles a week, until we hit the Metric Century mark in September.
I got so pumped up from the group ride that I went out and rode 30 miles by myself this afternoon. That beats my previous distance record by about 5 miles. When I got home my daughter was begging to go riding. So, we went out and road 3 miles together around the subdivision. It is amazing how much faster she is on this new bike. She was begging to do more, but I was worn out.
Our local cycling club does a R.A.M. (Ride a Metric) training series that starts in May and culminates with our big century event in the fall. I found out about it last week and went and joined them Saturday afternoon for a 13 mile ride. We had a couple of new people besides myself, a few club members who enjoyed the slower pace, and a few club instructors. I learned a ton. It is a whole different world riding in a group than the solo rides that I have been doing. We will be riding weekly until the fall, within an increase in distance of about two miles a week, until we hit the Metric Century mark in September.
I got so pumped up from the group ride that I went out and rode 30 miles by myself this afternoon. That beats my previous distance record by about 5 miles. When I got home my daughter was begging to go riding. So, we went out and road 3 miles together around the subdivision. It is amazing how much faster she is on this new bike. She was begging to do more, but I was worn out.