Long Bike Ride

Sunday as planned I went bike riding with a bunch of my triathlete buddies. Wow what a hard ride. They were not screwing around at all and I did not have my A game. I was tired and sore from riding and racing the day before and had trouble with the hills on this ride which is usually my strong point. Problem was there were a ton of hills. Long hills that you can lose a lot of time on. Bottle that up with problem 2 is that it was quite windy and everybody but me had aero bars so after getting over the top of a hill if I was not on somebodies wheel I was in trouble.

I really only faltered once that mattered and I got dropped really good. I was alone for miles. Fortunately I had a heart monitor and a speedometer so I could see that I was riding fairly well I was just getting killed by faster riders. I can live with that I knew they were more fit than me. Once we regrouped I played it very conservative and sucked wheels the rest of the day. We also had a tailwind the rest of the ride so they did not have such a huge advantage on me as they had earlier so I did not get dropped anymore.

It was a really good ride though, beautiful weather nice and hard and a great course. I am looking forward to riding that course again when I am riding a little better. When I got home I was wrecked, absolutely worn out and lethargic the rest of the day. I think I was in bed by 9:30.

After the ride as seems to be a tradition with these guys we ran about 2.5 miles. Just a couple of slow laps around a big field where the ride starts. They seem to think there is a good reason for it so I figure why not.


For the week that gives me
2.5,3,2,3.5 = 11 hours on the bike
5,6.5,4,2.5 = 18 miles running