Training Log Archive: veinbuster

Short stretch and a short beach ride before Sunday morning with some guests from Tennessee.

15C and light wind made for perfect conditions. Drivers were really stupid.

Beach/Inlet with Tennessee folk.

Ride your age Stage 6

The wind was going to build again today, so I went out early. I also had hopes of getting a nicer moonrise photo than yesterday.
It looked like the moon was high enough that another day would put it really close to the glow of the sun. That was not to be. It was too close for me to even find it in the sunlight...so this is the best I coudl do yesterday.


The sun came up a bit before 10km. The moderate wind was mostly at my back, but knowing I would have a 30km return into the building wind, I made a point of keeping my heart around 150. This is against my natural tendancy to make the most of a bit of a tailwind.

All of the outbound intervals were sub 12 minutes. I was expecting closer to 14 on the return. I paused at the turn around to ping Mrs that I was still alive. A condition of roaming so far was that I would call a cab if I got into trouble. The wind did buld a bit as I headed back, but traffic slowed me more frequently dropping momentum. I kept about the same heart rate most of the way back. By 50km the wind was starting to try to push me into traffic. I used that as an excuse to stop for breakfast at 55km - 5km from the beach house.


The break was refreshing enough that rather than loop an extra kilometer to finish the distance, I opted to map out the entire beach road by going into the wind right to the southern end of the public road. I thought I coudl still get back within 3 hours and just beat that.

C • Great photos! 1

Nasty wind.

It was too cold for the kit I have to go out when the air was still. Warming was very slow but as 11am came up it jumped to 10C. Wind was 30km/hr and promising to get worse, so I gave riding a try.

I started straight into the headwind to the end of the peninsula and while it was work, it wasn’t terrible. Then 12km with a tailwind.

The trouble with riding this time of day is all the unfriendly drivers are out. 3 pulled in front of me and stopped. Dead stop. One to back into a driveway. One to wait for a left turn. The other, seemingly just to be annoying. At the turn around I decided that rather than take the headwind all the way back, I would go inland on each of the evacuation routes and take the headwind for a few blocks to get a break. This worked out well in Surfside, but Garden City only has one evacuation road. The wind was strengthening, enough to almost push me off the road...so I just went back to the house, overshooting a bit to make a safe turn in the traffic.

Ride your age stage 5a

I dropped Mrs at the airport at 4:30 and noticed heavy frost on the overnight cars. That meant I could ride today in the cold or in the wind. I opted to try the cold in light wind while Mrs flew to Atlanta, then come back while she made her connection.

As I was putting on my jacket I decided the early winter black jacket should stay inside and I should wear the early fall light coloured jacket with big supilver reflective strips. This meant I was a bit chilly most of the ride.

Big lights front and back gave me good visibility. I saw a car about every kilometre. I saw one other bike at about 12km - dressed all in non reflective black with no lights, or even a reflector - a bit scary.

A bit of a glow of sun showed at about 18km. Enough light to see the computer at 22km, and the sun broke the horizon at 28km.

C • Where is Mrs. going? 2

Ride your age stage 5b

4C and 20km/hr winds seemed better than waiting for 10C and 50km/hr so I went to finish up while Mrs was on the second leg of her flight. The wind was largely a cross breeze, but I started north into a partial headwind hoping to be able to end up with a bit of a push. The plan of
8km headwind
12km tailwind
10km headwind
Tailwind finished...got foiled as the wind shifted from NW to SW near the end of the ride.

The road was pretty quiet though so it was a peaceful ride.

Ever offer to walk someone down the beach to the only walkable place of interest and arrive to find that for today only, they aren’t open for lunch - water maintenance on their block had them out of commission.

Nice low tide walk though. Fortunately I had enough in the fridge for a breadless wrap. And a spare cupcake for the cupcake monster.