I can’t believe I rode in to work today after the weekend I’ve had. It’s pretty rare for me to do two centuries in one weekend, but when they’re on a 2-for-1 Labor Day weekend special you take what you can get. On the ride in I was feeling pretty…
Category: Cycling
What a beautiful day for a ride, with a solid group, and a fun but challenging route. I hit up Mark Hyken early Friday morning asking what his plans were for Saturday’s Adobo Velo ride. He shared that he wasn’t planning on doing the Saturday ride due to weather, but…
No better way to start the morning than a quick spin around the neighborhood. I didn’t sleep very well last night. I went to bed around 8:30 and woke up about four hours later and for a while I worried I would fall back to sleep. The stomach was still…
I finally renewed my Century Club membership. I was starting to worry my card was going to be permanently revoked if I didn’t get a century in soon. But dang, I decided to do it the hard way. When it was all said and done I matched my jersey, cracked.…
Cycling Month in Review – August 2023 Time to review last month’s cycling statistics. Cycling: Rides: 13Total Distance: 564.33 MilesTotal Ride Time: 32:07:33 (H:M:S)Longest Ride: 69.70 Miles – Pork Chops for Dinner Again?Calories Burned: 71,617Total Elevation Gain: 77,011 ftAverage Speed: 12.9 MPHAverage Heart Rate: 118 BPMAverage Cadence: 75 RPM Commuting:…
Unfortunately, I’m a little too far removed from this ride to be able to really add anything meaningful to describe it. It was just another commute loop. Head wind on the way home was pretty awful. New bike fund: $25.48 (+$0.00)366 vehicles @ 9.8 per mile, 2.7 per minute, Speeds:…
Another one of those rides that I definitely needed. I skipped this weekend’s group ride to go provide support for my friend Caleb who was racing in the Hoodoo 500. The Hoodoo 500 is a 500 mile bike race in southwestern Utah. It was absolutely insane. I watched the temperatures…
Unfortunately by the time I’m getting around to post this much of the ride has faded from memory except one stand out interaction. I pull up to the light at Harmon and Paradise. As I’m sitting there I look to my right and there is a guy sitting there in…
Another weird one for me this weekend, I didn’t ride over to the start of the group ride. I’m still lacking the confidence to do an extended ride fearing I’ll fall apart at the end. Going to have to pull off the band aid sometime. Had a nice drive over…
You all can thank me for the rain this afternoon. I didn’t mount the fenders before leaving this morning because I didn’t want to be looking like a commute dork on the unofficial Lifetime Friday ride. Instead I just looked like a normal tail end of the group dork. I’d…