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Monday May 3, 2010 #
12 PM
Cycling 2:13:20 [3] 58.44 km (2:17 / km) +450m 2:12 / km
ahr:139 max:171 (injured)
Tralee-Farranfore-Scartaglin-Castleisland-Tralee
Added a new section for a change to the Farranfore-Castleisland route. Happy enough with the extra 10km but road isn't the best in places. I also thought the hill up to Scartaglin would be steeper and harder, but found it easy enough. Windy again today, from a northerly direction and blowing at 20kph. Made the spin back from Castleisland and Scartaglin-Castleisland (straight) difficult. Kept a good cadence for most of the cycle. Stopped my watch when I had to make a pit stop too.
I'm also concerned about my left hand, suffering a bit in last few cycles from pins and needles, I think the extra vibration from the road is the cause.
But the most important thing was that I BEAT THE TRACTOR. Around 6km from Tralee I noticed a tractor coming up behind me, at the same time I saw a bike in front of me, so the adrenaline started to flow a bit. Lad was only on a crappy bike, not a proper bike, so I flew past him, then the tractor was my only competition. Got through the roundabout and passed Ballyseedy Wood in ok pace, but after that the wind got really strong, was concerned that tractor might beat me, but had enough of a lead to get to my imaginary finish line at the digital speed limit sign. Got my max HR for the cycle into the very strong wind at Ballygarry.
To start of the cycle I saw a human tit! As I approached the Earl of Desmond Roundabout I saw a car enter from the Killarney road and proceed to drift around the roundabout a couple of times before leaving by the Tralee exit. I imagine he gets lost a lot since Tralee is the 1st exit and is well signed. He also had a couple of other cars with him who didn't drift around the roundabout but made sure to make plenty of noise with their cars as they followed him to Tralee. It must be noted that they weren't the only cars on the road.
Garmin said I did 50km outside Tralee at an avg speed of 27.4kph.
Added a new section for a change to the Farranfore-Castleisland route. Happy enough with the extra 10km but road isn't the best in places. I also thought the hill up to Scartaglin would be steeper and harder, but found it easy enough. Windy again today, from a northerly direction and blowing at 20kph. Made the spin back from Castleisland and Scartaglin-Castleisland (straight) difficult. Kept a good cadence for most of the cycle. Stopped my watch when I had to make a pit stop too.
I'm also concerned about my left hand, suffering a bit in last few cycles from pins and needles, I think the extra vibration from the road is the cause.
But the most important thing was that I BEAT THE TRACTOR. Around 6km from Tralee I noticed a tractor coming up behind me, at the same time I saw a bike in front of me, so the adrenaline started to flow a bit. Lad was only on a crappy bike, not a proper bike, so I flew past him, then the tractor was my only competition. Got through the roundabout and passed Ballyseedy Wood in ok pace, but after that the wind got really strong, was concerned that tractor might beat me, but had enough of a lead to get to my imaginary finish line at the digital speed limit sign. Got my max HR for the cycle into the very strong wind at Ballygarry.
To start of the cycle I saw a human tit! As I approached the Earl of Desmond Roundabout I saw a car enter from the Killarney road and proceed to drift around the roundabout a couple of times before leaving by the Tralee exit. I imagine he gets lost a lot since Tralee is the 1st exit and is well signed. He also had a couple of other cars with him who didn't drift around the roundabout but made sure to make plenty of noise with their cars as they followed him to Tralee. It must be noted that they weren't the only cars on the road.
Garmin said I did 50km outside Tralee at an avg speed of 27.4kph.