Training Log Archive: PG

The usual group. Quite enjoyed it. And winter is lingering so this won't be the last time.

C • Bike "route" 3

Whately loop, counter-clockwise. about 40, E 5-10, storm coming, a little more snow. Easy pace except for the uphills, when there seems to be no such thing as an easy pace. Some things never change.

Low 40s, NW 10 made it feel a little chillier. Up to Montague Center and around and about a bit. Legs weren't super spry, but nice to be out.

At Walter's. This was actually fun. Helps to have things set up with more or less the correct resistance. A decent workout without any real suffering.

Was going to go out mid-afternoon, but it was snowing hard enough to defeat my intentions (though not apparently snowing hard enough to actually accumulate on pavement). But then it stopped snowing, and there was still plenty of daylight, so off I went. Started snowing again pretty soon thereafter, but at that point it didn't matter, I was out the door.

35F, SW 5-10. Actually the snow made it nice, gave the sense of really being out in the elements, when in fact it was pretty benign. But the time went quickly, and what cars there were gave me more space than ever, figuring I guess that that this biker must be quite nuts.

Perhaps they are right....

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New chain. Got 1,825 miles on the first one, 1,920 on the second. Also got the brakes fixed. I think the rear brake was OK, but the front one had some air in the line and was only a little bit better than worthless. Working fine now.

At Walter's, reasonably tolerable.

Low 50s, sunny, WSW 5-10. Lovely late afternoon. And certainly an improvement over the nearly 3 hours in the dentist's chair a little bit earlier. (And hopefully that tooth has a few more years in it.)