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Ken
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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
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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
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Remove "-dispose-trash" for email address
My personal webstie: http://kcm-home.tripod.com/
My blog: http://mind-dribble.blogspot.com/
