First day back on the bike
Miles rode: 32.45
Time: 2:01
Avg speed: 16.22
Perceived effort: 8
Temp: 44 degrees
An OK ride. Didn’t feel awesome, but didn’t feel awful. Somewhere in the midst of “pretty OK. ”
Since I’m doing a 200km brevet tomorrow I thought maybe I should take the bike out for a spin and make sure I haven’t forgotten anything. Fixed the flats. The rear had a puncture… patched it with a Slime Scab. Cool product. Much more convenient that the traditional patch kit with the little tube of goo you have to smear on, wait to dry, then apply patch… only to realize you didn’t smear on enough goo and one little edge of the patch is waving at you, snickering that it’s under adhering. I’m definitely sticking with these goo-free patches. The front tire, while it was flat, didn’t actually have a puncture. It was merely one of those mystery flats. You know the kind that just seem to happen for no good reason, bike was sitting in the car and got pissed it wasn’t getting ridden enough… flat. Bike was hanging from hooks in garage and resented being upside down… flat. Bike was propped against workbench after an evening ride, waiting for the early morning ride to follow… so fickle it flatted.
Even though the leg muscles felt, for the most part, good. A couple hours later, many, many muscles started to make their unhappiness know. Chest muscles were sore (from climbing?). Neck and shoulder muscles, a tiny bit sore (from holding my noggin in a position it hasn’t been in for 3 months). Butt? Very sore. This could be the biggest problem tomorrow. Not the legs. Go figure.
This is a derelict couple of cars on West River Road:
March 26th, 2007 at 10:28 am
Well see you never get out of shape, so of course you did well on the bike.
Love the picture, see that part of the country to me has so many photo ops, love it!!
March 26th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
The butt’s always my biggest problem too. Good luck tomorrow!
March 27th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Looks like you were on West River. how did it fair this winter? Any of it washed out from the thaw before the “blizzard”?
BTW. I had around 100 miles on the hotel Life cycle.