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Couldn’t find a good enough reason to trek to Wichita Falls for the annual roasting of 10,000 plus cyclists, but I did manage to find a century from my usual Saturday morning group ride. Wow. Slower moving speed, but a new PR overall time of 7 hours 35 minutes makes me pretty happy. Thanks to Todd and Beth (not her real name) for a fantastic day on fantastic roads touring the...
What a beating… Yesterday’s metric century was totally painless, though. Pretty cool to log 164 miles in two days in any case! Things started off great with a plan to ride down to Sunnyvale so that we’d be outbound into the wind and have a tailwind on the return. I started to worry when I kept seeing Mark up at the front leading, as we were going at a decent clip with...
Fabulous ride! Fabulous day! We came out of the gate flying, nearly 18 mph average to the break point. Once again, the Branch break point was a cluster 7v(# with a few 2-intendees getting swept into the 1s and a number of 1s nearly getting left at the church. A group of 4 got stuck at the light crossing 380 at Bridgefarmer. Kent, I, Jeff, Smurfette, Kai and 4 people I...
So… here’s the sort of thing that goes through the mind of the sort of person who rides 100 miles on a 95 degree day in north Texas… Great ride! Got a *##(*$( flat, but that’s better than I’ve been doing lately… Don, Renee & Mark rode the century option. David fired up the excuse generator and mumbled something about his kid and the park… Jeff Frye (who I’m blaming for...
I’d begun to think I’d upset the balance of Karma. Strangest because I thought I’d taken care of that when I found a lady’s day planner sitting in the middle of the right-hand lane of McDermott Drive last week. I figured I’d scored a few thousand points in my favor. Boy, was I wrong… That very afternoon, I suffered two flats. But, that was only after Dave was unable to join...
I enjoyed a fantastic group bicycle ride yesterday evening. I worked hard to stay at the front of the pack. I was careful to mete out my energy. And then we turned into the wind. And off I fell. But the cool part was, I caught the pack again and tried again! They shook me off again, but it sure did feel good to try!
I found Zen! It happened on the bike this morning traveling south on the return leg to the house down Independence Parkway. My heart was steady at 55% of max. It’s a gentle downhill grade for a couple miles, and at 23 mph, the road spray coming off my front wheel was *just* clearing my helmet. The shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh of the tires over the wet pavement was the only sound to be...
Today, I rode 100 miles on my bicycle – actually, 101. I rolled out of the parking lot at XL Cycle Shop in Plano at 7:30 am with a group of dedicated crazy people – the official ride was canceled because of the cold weather and wind. As we rolled north out of the parking lot on Independence, I realized finally that I was going to do this thing! It was...
I’d planned to wait until I got down to 220 pounds, but I decided that a: 30 pounds lost was a huge milestone, b: 230 is a nice round number also, and c: the deal was too good to pass up. I spotted this Trek 1200 on Craig’s list this morning. I was afraid I was too late, as the ad had been posted last night, but I sent an e-mail....
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