Friday Mar 30 |
 | Bike - 'bent (errands) 45:00 [3]14 km (3:13 / km) | |
| shoes: Slipstream |
| actually riding on the road today - down to hardware store and bike shop and home. Hills sucked - boy am I out of shape - but they didn't seem to hurt quite as bad as they usually do at the beginning of the season - but definitely slow.
Mounted the new front rack this AM - fits really well, but then realized the panniers wouldn't fit properly without some modification, then couldn't find the grinder bits for the dremel, so off to the hardware store. Need to grind a slot in the aluminum mount so they fit flush to the rack.
Fine day for a ride - now for some lunch, then rework the pannier, then perhaps out for a pm ride before the kids get home from school.... |
| Bike - 'bent (Woodlake) 31:30 [3]12.5 km (2:31 / km) | |
| shoes: Slipstream |
| ride out to woodlake and back - lots of loose gravel on dirt road, but otherwise a nice ride... |
Tuesday Mar 27 |
| Orienteering - Training (Crandalls) 29:54 [3]4.5 km (6:39 / km) +120m 5:52 / km | |
| shoes: Kumasi GTX |
| Afternoon run at Crandalls, no map, all off trail. Visualized 'controls' in my head and ran to them on terrain memory. Nice day in the woods - marshes soggy, but crossable only ice was in the ballfield near the end. |
| Mixed Run (Happy Feet) 20:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Kumasi GTX |
| running club |
Saturday Mar 24 |
| Trail Run - Long / Easy (Sodom Road) 35:34 [3]6.4 km (5:33 / km) | |
| shoes: Adidas Response Trail XI |
| Easy run out Sodom Road to the gate on 190 and back with Kevin. Icy, rutted road but enough bare spots that the footing was mostly ok... |
| Walk (SLR) 25:00 [1]1.5 mi (16:39 / mi) | |
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| afternoon walk with the kids to pick up Hayden from a play date. |
| Bike - 'bent 15:00 [1]1.5 km (10:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Slipstream |
| finished putting the fenders on, more tooling around the driveway while Hayden rode his bike. No heel interference and everything seems quite secure. |
Friday Mar 23 |
| Road Run (Stress Test) 20:00 [4] | |
| max:163 |
| annual nuke stress test
EKG flatlined at 3 minutes, so they eventually restarted the machine so I got an extra 5 minute warmup. Went the full 15 minutes without incident.
Got the green light later in the day, so whatever's been causing my chest tightness of late isnt' heart related, so time to ramp up the intensity and frequency of training now...
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| Bike - 'bent 15:00 [1]2 km (7:30 / km) | |
| shoes: Slipstream |
| tooling around the driveway with Hayden while waiting for Jacksons bus. Fenders came UPS so I stopped riding and started putting them on... |
Thursday Mar 22 |
| Trainer 1:22:30 [2]33 km (2:30 / km) | |
| shoes: Slipstream |
| Nice enough to put the trainer out on the breezeway - nice warm breeze blowing through too. A couple more days like this should melt most of the snow and roads should start to get rideable.... |
Tuesday Mar 20 |
| Trainer 40:00 [3]17.75 km (2:15 / km) | |
| shoes: Slipstream |
| another evening in the basement. After 20 minutes of spinning easily in my middle gear, I cranked it up onto my largest combination and jammed for 5 minutes (117 inches, 45kph). Couldn't read at that exertion and it was a lot of work, but probably good for me now that I've got a couple hundred miles of easy spinning to accustom the muscles to the new bike. Then I backed off to another 15 minutes of easy spinning to cool down. First time I've broken a serious sweat on the trainer though.. |
| Road Run (Happy Feet) 10:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Kumasi GTX |
| 1st session of Happy Feet - 40 1st & 2nd graders. Went outside and played a running game. But most of my running was jogging to/from the playground with the kids.. |
Monday Mar 19 |
| Note | |
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| snowing again, slipped on an unplowed walkway at work today (still sore), most of the family sick, goat won't eat - just kind of lost the motivation to go down in the basement and ride. We'll see what tomorrow brings.
Less than 20 weeks to the Pan Mass - hope this snow melts soon so I can get out on the road riding again.... Gotta finish the Crandall's map too... |
Sunday Mar 18 |
| Trainer 45:00 [2]18 km (2:30 / km) | |
| shoes: Slipstream |
| mid afternoon visit to the basement while the kids were outside playing... |
Saturday Mar 17 |
| Trainer 30:00 [2]12 km (2:30 / km) | |
| shoes: Slipstream |
| 'mo sistas... |
Friday Mar 16 |
| Trainer 30:00 [2]12 km (2:30 / km) | |
| shoes: Slipstream |
| barefoot sisters cont.... |
Thursday Mar 15 |
| Trainer 30:00 [2]12 km (2:30 / km) | |
| shoes: Slipstream |
| more barefoot sisters |
Wednesday Mar 14 |
| Fieldwork (Crandalls) 1:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Kumasi GTX |
| Day off - went over to do some mapping - still a lot of icy snow in some places, others melted out but replaced by slick mud. Drew in a couple reference points on the main slope, but was spending more time trying to get good footing so I gave up after an hour - will wait for the woods to dry a bit more - plenty of time yet... |
| Bike - 'bent 45:00 [1]5 km (9:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Slipstream |
| more tooling around the driveway with Hayden. As least I'm getting good at slow speed turns and avoiding obstacles (Hayden likes to cut across my path...)
Spent a little time trying to see if I could cobble my old 27" fenders to fit the bent. Not pretty - I think I'll just order up a set made to fit.... |
| Hiking (Weigold) 40:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Kumasi GTX |
| Family hike at Weigold... |
Tuesday Mar 13 |
| Bike - 'bent 45:00 [1]5 km (9:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Slipstream |
| Tooling around the driveway and road in front of the house watching Hayden who was riding his bike in driveway. Lots of slow speed tight turns. |
Friday Mar 9 |
| Trainer 1:00:00 [2]24 km (2:30 / km) | |
| shoes: Slipstream |
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Sunday Mar 4 |
| Trainer 40:00 [2]16 km (2:30 / km) | |
| shoes: Slipstream |
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Saturday Mar 3 |
| Trainer 32:30 [2]13 km (2:30 / km) | |
| shoes: Slipstream |
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