capeCOD

rode a cent to the cape on friday afternoon. the weather was fine, no rain until i pulled into shauns driveway in eastham which was pretty awesome. i was insanely hot and sweaty all day tho cause it was so muggy. i skipped lunch at 50 miles and decided to be hero and keep going. dumb idea. i was so tired and not enjoying the second half. until i got to yarmouth, 80 miles in and stopped at the optimist cafe. best chicken salad of my life. the waitress was so courteous, depite the fact that i was so dirty and smelly and the establishment was a nice cafe/wine bar. she must have told them to make my sandwich extra large cause it was massive. it had cranberrys and walnuts in it. i felt so much better after i ate. for like two miles. then i realized i ate WAY too much and had a stomach cramp the following 18 miles. anyways id def ride there again, with better tactics, and hopefully go faster. averaged 18 mph even, 5:30 ride time, 6:30 total time.

albORbust09

we did our annual memorial day weekend ride to albany last weekend. shaun joined this year which was fun and caitlin drove us all our crap in shauns car and met us at the hotel for dinner which was amazing. so much more enjoyable not having the pack on the back of the bike unless your actually doing some touring. friday was very hott, but saturday was fast and cool with a nice tailwind. we made good time, ie arrived when we expected to, it was like 10:45 total at about 16mph. pics are on my flickr but below are a few choice flicks for ya (in reverse chronological order)

firstRACE

so i did my first race today. wells ave crit, 12 miles, .8 mi loop, cat 4 and 5 riders i believe. we averaged probably about 24 mph or so, but i forgot to reset my comp cause i was all nervous and not having a clue as to what was happening. all in all it went pretty well considering i had no clue what i was doing other than just trying not to get dropped from the first pack of riders. great success in that respect. definitely learned a lot and it was nice to just dive in and get my feet wet. i was doing pretty well and trying to move up on the last lap when i hit a sewer cover pretty good and my bars slipped in the stem and tilted forward which threw me for a loop and killed the momentum i was trying to build up. unfortunate but not the end of the world obvs. it wasnt like i was going to win or anything heh. cant wait to race again.

forgotness

forgot to mention i finally got up to 40.6 mph today out in hopkinton which was very fun. also i think there is a discrepancy between my computer and mapmyride. im always a bit short on my computer. i just used the preprogrammed 700x23 setting so i should actually measure it out.

cycling updates

do i update about anything else ever. apparently not.
friday i did some speed intervals out in dover. nothing too exciting. saturday i biked ot the post office and met up with dan and shaun. it then started pouring so we went to dans and ate cookies instead. we did ride very fast for a mile to dans house tho. i was super winded. sunday i did a fast hour to caitlins. averaged 18.69 mph which was good considering i had a horrible headwind the whole time. today i did 50 miles. felt great. nice tail wind for the first half and a managable head wind for the second. took 2:41 and averaged 18 mph even. very pleased with that. map is below.

rides

tuesday dan and i went out and did some hills. five times up north hill, hr zone 3 twice, zone 4 twice, zone five once, but i didnt get my heart rate up quite high enough, 178 bpm level five starts at 181. then once up west st which wasnt as bad as i though it would be at all. i still need to do a max hr test and set my zones more accurately based on that.


today i rode to to school, caitlins then home. nothing too intense. transportation speed.

sunDAY

did a fast 1 hour ride this morning then rode home this evening.  it was soooo friggin windy this morning which killed my avg speed, i could have done much faster with much less effort had it been not so windy on the ride out, ohh well.  averaged 19mph which im pleased with considering the headwind for the first half and the comm ave hills on the second half.