Since the middle of 2006 I have spent roughly 840 hours on my bike riding 10,000 miles. (What’s scary is that I have spent nearly exactly the same number of hours, 838, barely moving in front of a computer playing WOW)
Author: James
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SIR Winter Training Series – Ride 2
Saturday’s ride was the annual loop around Camano Island. It was a really foggy day and visibility was pretty low for most of the ride. Riders up ahead of me would disappear pretty quickly into the fog and cars would appear out of nowhere. Thankfully the roads are pretty low traffic and the ride went well.
It wasn’t quite as cold at the start as in previous year’s (though I had remembered mittens this year so that made quite a difference for my hands, compared to fingerless gloves).
My legs felt a bit better for this ride so I think commuting a couple of days last week had helped them a bit. My pace seemed much the same as previous years so hopefully on track to build on that this year to get faster by the summer.
As a side note, I nearly brought along my single speed for the ride but was glad enough to have the lower gears on my regular rando bike as the ride was hillier than I remembered. Got over 40 mph on one of the downhills without speed wobble setting in (focussing on keeping my arms relaxed).
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First run of the year
The whole family headed out to a local running track and we ran/walked/jumped around it at our various paces for my first run of the year. Just did 8 laps to ease my knee into taking the impact (around 2 miles). I’m feeling faint twinges tonight but hopefully as long as I slowly ramp up the mileage and let my feet get accustomed to the custom orthotics from last year I’ll be able to get this running under control for the half marathon distance needed for the 70.3 triathlon.
As a bonus we all got in a quick swim this afternoon as well following swim suit buying for Susan and new goggle buying for me (Swedish goggles). Hopefully these ones won’t leak as much when I’m doing lap swims.
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SIR Winter Training Series – Ride 1
Saturday morning saw the first in the winter training series rides that SIR run each year. A group of about 50 people showed up to the start at Sammamish Valley Cycle and we went for a 40 mile loop. The route itself had been re-planned at the last moment due to extensive flooding in WA last week. Unfortunately (for me) this meant we had to get above the flooded roads and thus a fair bit more climbing was involved to get to the proverbial “high road”. My pace was pretty slow but I plodded along and finished eventually.
It helped reinforce the decision to start commuting by bike again and so I picked up some waterproof panniers to carry my laptop safely and fixed up my bike for Monday’s commute. Hopefully a couple of weeks of daily riding will get my legs back to flying up these early season hills.
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January Stats
Weight 168lbs
Body Fat 21%
Hummm … not quite the 154 lbs/14% of my summer riding weight. Too much sedentary winter non-activity (and the odd bowl of ice cream)