22 miles into and out of the mountains. 2500 feet of climbing. Warm on way up but wore windbreaker on way down. Can feel the weather getting cooler at altitude. Not much longer till it will actually be cold in the afternoons.:50:

Short commute - ten miles up and down the hills.

About 32 miles (not sure exactly, cyclocomputer malfunctioned) doing 5 of the local hills. My legs felt tired from the start and I took some of the hills slowly, but I finished strong. Overall, it wasn't a fast ride but it felt like good training.

I really do feel the difference when it's the day after a hard ride or if I haven't had a day off in the last 3 or more days. Some of the people with whom I ride churn out demanding rides day after day. There are people who ride 60+ fast miles 3 or 4 days in a row and so on. Is this is a different kind of stamina from the kind that gets one through a single long tough ride?

Most of those riders will have years and years of many miles and rides under their saddles and those longer rides they take are not so taxing on their systems. As your riding progresses the body will make changes in how it breaks down stored fuel, utilizes fuel in your stomach and how the cells burn fuel and disposes waste. There will also be improvements in riding form and most of all, muscular endurance. The muscular endurance enables those riders to ride alongside you but not to expend as much effort to do the same amount of work. They may be riding along at a Z2/3 pace and you are at a Z4 pace. Over time, as your riding improves the effort you need to ride X mph will decrease allowing you to ride longer and more efficient while taking less of a toll on the body. Most everyone needs to have some recovery or at some point they will breakdown.

Did my usual 40 mile beach road ride along A1A this afternoon. I'm a pretty good hot weather rider but, christ!, it was 97 when I got back to my car about 4:15 with a real feel of 108. My feet were getting burned on the parking lot and I had socks on!

I am way ready for a break to this never ending heat in Fl.

Now I do own an air conditioning company and I have had a bang up season...better income this year than any in the last three years..but I can still whine can't I?

Mike

After being on vacation for almost 2 weeks, I've been dying to get atop my bike. But after putting in about 1000 miles in drive time in the last two days, I just was not up to it.. Dam cars... Tomorrow. Will be another story..

Resistance exercises and stretching

50F, wind into face 15 mph, 6:30 start - great ride, followed by

Swim

Another Hot One Today. 100.3 miles Temps 91* rained twice. Winds 9 to 14 mph

"100.3 miles Temps 91*"


Yo buddy! I'm impressed, thats a lot of miles at that temp.....thats a lot of miles at any temp to me.

79.7 miles, 3250 feet elevation gain, rode 30miles just to reach the mountains. Rode up GMR to the shack then home. Total miles is from my front door.

33 mile ride with 3 riding buddies. Nothing hard other than a few hills. We are all racing cross tomorrow and needed to save a little in the tank.

About 3 hours, even passed some more folks, and some of them were actually on bicycles!!!!!!

As noted in my Birthday ride thread, 72 miles with my brother on his b-day. Happy Birthday bro!!!:bday:

41 miles to the beach and back. Even leaving at 7:30 a.m., I'm still drenched in sweat by the time I'm done. It would be nice to get a little cooler weather here.

I rode around the neighborhood, up and down each and every street - about half an hour.
I was test riding and tuning my little refurbished, Specialized Hard RocKommuter. This is the same one I got for $15 at the thrift store. She runs pretty nice, now.

102 miles with 6,328 feet of climbing today. My first century of the year.

It was too frikkin hot to ride yesterday so I snuck out before 5 this morning. Got in about an hour along the waterfront. Where is November and the cooler weather?

30 mile club ride out in the country today. Rode with my son again - he's in his first year of cycling and aiming for one day of the Hilly Hundred in a few weeks. 14.2 mph is not bad for a beginner and his dad.
10 miles yesterday. 18 mile commute plus 12 miles in the evening on Friday.

After a 30 minute warmup I raced a 45 minute cyclo cross race on the Lake Erie shore in Cleveland's Wendy Park. Was quite the effort for a 45 minute race. I finished somewhere in the middle of the 60-70 person pack in the Sport division race. Never raced or rode so hard for a 10.8 mile ride with a 12.9 mph average.:cry:

Rode an easy 16 miles with my 9 y.o. daughter this afternoon. The kid is a trouper. No idea of avg. speed, and don't really care. the most important thing was time one-on-one with the daughter.

65 mile club ride around and near Lake Minnetonka. It was a moderately fast paced A/B ride and I had a pretty good time enjoying some nice rural scenery and glorious early fall weather. (Though I did run out of gas on the very last hill, almost within site of the finish.) I started with only water b/c I had run out of powerade at home, and there wasn't a chance to get any sportsdrink until a rest stop at about 53 miles. Too late. A little while ago I had serious leg cramp spasm in my right hamstring. OUCH!

Yesterday's ride: the 70 miler for the Old Kentucky Home Tour, plus an extra 5 to ride up to the starting point from my house.

My distinction: 75 miles of riding in a major event, and I passed 2 cyclists, one being a rank n00b on a heavy clunker, the other being a lady who caught her wheel on a bad crack in the pavement and went down hard, shattering at least her collarbone and perhaps some other stuff.

Otherwise everyone pretty much blew by me.

But I didn't have to dismount for any of the nasty climbs, even though I went up the last one so slowly my auto-pause on the Garmin started firing. That can be pretty demoralizing.

It was a good ride.

rain this morning killed our weekly ~50 miler. but things dried up by noon and I was able to get a fast, hilly 21 miler in before I went to referee 3 fall high school basetball games... riding for good health/times and then exercising and getting paid! life can be soooooo good!

Yesterday: 36 fast miles with cgallagh and 2 women racers. Perfect weather, perfect pace, perfect company.

Today: 41 miles with the LBS ride. We stopped for coffee after 17 miles. The second part of the ride was faster and hillier and I let the guys go...I had a 50+ guy and a 20+ guy sucking my wheel for about 5 miles before they finally fell off. Climbed a big hill, found a fig tree on the right-of-way so laden with ripe figs we couldn't eat them all, and arrived home with my legs feeling like lead. So, two excellent days and two excellent rides.

Rode the epic Guardsman Pass to Mill Creek D trail head on the world-renowned Wasatch Crest Trail. Absolutely beautiful views! Photo (link) shows Desolation Lake. A crater that goes some 550 feet deep in the center filled with ice-cold snow water. Beautiful!

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