bike hills 1:10:00 [4] 40.38 km (1:44 / km)
Well folks, this is my first real bike ride and the Ironman is in 6.5 wks. I just haven't been able to inspire myself to go. This is strange because this has always been MY BEST discipline. Anyhoo, as soon as I sat on the seat and peddled down the driveway I remembered how much I love biking. Of course I started out with a killer over the mtn route. Since California and the Hawaii Ironman races are KILLER for hills, I'm going to do up to 4 repeats of this route to get in the 180 km distance. I enjoyed it until about 32 kms in once more into a headwind. The winds are strange here. You start out into a headwind and think, "no prob, then I'll finish up with it behind me". Then the wind changes. It's great for training b/c no wind is worse than what we train in!!! For the final 8 kms I just hung on until I turned the corner and then hammered home. The hot tub was SWEET after that.
