A quick catch up on my riding since the 200k. I’ve started riding the Native Planet Thursday night rides again (well one so far). It was good to be back riding with the NP crowd and hitting some familiar hills. I’ll try to make it a fairly regular ride. I’ve also been introduced to a new website for tracking biking stats called Strava. It allows you to easily break up rides into segments so you can compare your times on the same climbs over time (and hopefully see how you improve). You can also see how you’re doing against other people who have ridden the same segments. Very cool.
http://app.strava.com/athletes/15349
I’ve also done a couple of shorter Cascade rides on the weekends with the CATS groups. The one two weekends ago started at Magnuson Park and rode down south hitting some new climbs that I hadn’t done before. I rode with the fastest group and the pace seemed fine. This last weekend I went down to Southcenter to start the CATS ride there. This was a larger group and everyone was in the same group. As such there were a lot more breaks and the rhythm of the ride was a bit different than I’m used to with a lot of regroups and waits. I went solo after a couple hours as I wanted to be back home in the early afternoon to work on building a Playhouse with the kids.
A busy month of rides ahead with the 300k this weekend, Northwest Crank later in the month (with plans to ride a 200, 300 and 400k at it) and rounding out the month with a 370k Fleche. A lot of good base miles ahead.
P90X is also progressing well. Susan and I have entered Month 2 now. It’s helping to work on the other muscles that are needed, but not necessarily developed, by riding and should help prevent injuries. Before and after photos will be provided once we complete the 90 days!
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