Saturday and Sunday – No cycling, but worked around the
house until tired. Whew!
Monday – 38 miles on my Keiser exercise bike watching a movie, low intensity, just getting the miles in.
Tuesday -.Yoga and 125 pushups and 100 situps in my room. Ran a little further.
Monday – 38 miles on my Keiser exercise bike watching a movie, low intensity, just getting the miles in.
Tuesday -.Yoga and 125 pushups and 100 situps in my room. Ran a little further.
Rode 57 miles with Joel
with some hills and finished along the trail about 11:00. My quads tightened up
during the stop at Lasar’s in Bowlus and the ride to Holdlingford hurt. After
stretching, I kept changing my pedal stroke the rest of the way to Albany and felt
OK at the end. I don’t know if it was nutrition, hydration, the pace or the too
long rest, but that is the worst I have felt on a ride since some of the winter fat
bike rides.
Wednesday – Rest and recovery.
Wednesday – Rest and recovery.
Thursday – 10 miles easy with the Central Minnesota
Bicycling Club from St. Joseph. Yoga and 125 pushups and 100 situps in my room.
Ran a little further still. Slowly making progress towards being able to run a
5K by August 8.
Friday – Rest day.
Saturday and Sunday – Rode 106 miles with Gary Westrup from the Crow Wing State Park south of Brainerd to Bemidji along the Paul Bunyan Trail. We did not push the pace, but rode mostly 15-18 mph, with a lot of 17. Slight tailwind most of the way, but got into the upper 80’s, with lots of 84 degrees. We had to pay attention to hydration. We planned to ride to Lake Bemidji State Park to do 120 miles, but rain threatened (with tornado watches going on west of us), so we were satisfied with 106 miles. (well, actually a bit relieved) :)
Friday – Rest day.
Saturday and Sunday – Rode 106 miles with Gary Westrup from the Crow Wing State Park south of Brainerd to Bemidji along the Paul Bunyan Trail. We did not push the pace, but rode mostly 15-18 mph, with a lot of 17. Slight tailwind most of the way, but got into the upper 80’s, with lots of 84 degrees. We had to pay attention to hydration. We planned to ride to Lake Bemidji State Park to do 120 miles, but rain threatened (with tornado watches going on west of us), so we were satisfied with 106 miles. (well, actually a bit relieved) :)
Sunday we rode back to
Crow Wing State Park. We had planned to ride the 9 mile longer route SW of
Walker along the Heartland Trail, then east to rejoin the Paul Bunyan Trail,
but we wimped out, with the extra 9 miles with 8% grades not sounding like a
good idea with over 65 miles to go after that stretch. I finished with 110
miles (3.5 miles further than Gary, due to my riding from my motel to his
before we began).
We ran into some construction and urban traffic in and near
Brainerd, but estimate that we otherwise would have finished the 100 in about 6
hours and 15 minutes of riding time, not that far off from the 6 hours I will
need to do to qualify to ride the FastAmericaSouth next spring. Progress!
Goal: 80-100 miles during the week, plus whatever on the weekend
Total week miles: 105 during week, with 106 and 110 on the weekend. Weekly goal achieved sixth week in a row. Still on track.
Goal: 80-100 miles during the week, plus whatever on the weekend
Total week miles: 105 during week, with 106 and 110 on the weekend. Weekly goal achieved sixth week in a row. Still on track.
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