The original plan was to set the alarm for a reasonable 6:30am, get up, have breakfast and then head north to the mountains and do 3-Gap. I figured if things went as scheduled we would be back before noon and would have had a beautiful ride in the mountains so I could show off my Alberto Contador skills (ha). Then we would have the entire rest of the day to enjoy and relax.
6:30am alarm went off, I heard Angela roll over and hit the snooze. No worries, I wanted another 10 minutes of snoozing anyway. About an hour and a half later I rolled out of bed before heading down to breakfast. Then we packed up all the bike crap and then we determined that we probably shouldn't do 3-Gap anyway because neither of us have had even a 2 hour and 30 minute ride this year let alone including mountain climbs. So now we were WAY off schedule.
So we decided to head out to the Harbins route (between Suwanee and Athens). We left around 9:15am but not to worry, I knew a shortcut! My shortcut was a loser as I ended up getting a wee bit lost and realized I now had to backtrack. What should have been about a 40 minute drive was now approaching an hour and half drive. I was less than pleased.
But we unloaded and started gearing up and then while Angela was pumping her tires, we heard her front tire leaking. She thought it would be good practice to do it on her own so she did want any help. She only had one question, "Do you have an extra tube???" GRRRR. The morning was quickly becoming frustrating.
But she did great. I didn't have to help her one bit and she changed it faster than most guys that I know! Impressive.
We ended up riding a bit over an hour (about 20 miles) and I really just tried to push it and keep the heart rate and watts raised especially on the hills/rollers (and keep up with Angela - not an easy task for me right now). Nothing crazy and no heart rates over LT but felt like I was working hard for some short stretches. I haven't down loaded the data yet but I'm pretty confident that I had old iron distance wattage or better for the ride. I'll be curious to see how fast bike fitness comes back to reasonable shape over the next few months.
Gotta cruise, UFC 100 is on tonight and although I'm tired I'm sure I'll watch at least some of it while it records in case I fall asleep.
By the numbers;
- 183.2 - today's weight (January 1, 2009 weight was 184.2) Goal weight for 10/25/09 is 165
- 107 - Days until the Marine Corp Marathon
- 176 - Total days trained in 2009
- 0.00 - miles run today
- 14.00 - miles on current pair of shoes
- 969.25 - Miles run in 2009
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