Fun, Fit and 60!

dunbar hill

not as bad as the first time … i’m learning to pace myself

Workout:

• Type: Cycle
• Date: 08/17/2008
• Time: 06:10:00
• Total Time: 2:18:27.00
• Average Heart rate: 120
• Calories: 1045
• Distance: 29.02 miles
• Average Speed: 12.58 mph
• Max Speed: 39.1 mph
• Ascent: 1,047 ft
• Descent: 1,047 ft
• Average Cadence: 69

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Cycle - 2.8 hours - 08/16/2008

Workout:

• Type: Cycle
• Date: 08/16/2008
• Time: 10:00:00
• Total Time: 2:46:54.00
• Average Heart rate: 131
• Calories: 1315
• Distance: 38.07 miles
• Average Speed: 13.69 mph
• Max Speed: 32.6 mph
• Average Cadence: 76

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Cycle - 1.1 hours - 08/13/2008

Workout:

• Type: Cycle
• Date: 08/13/2008
• Time: 06:00:00
• Total Time: 1:06:49.00
• Average Heart rate: 128
• Calories: 497
• Distance: 15.16 miles
• Average Speed: 13.61 mph
• Max Speed: 35 mph
• Average Cadence: 74

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Cycle - 1.1 hours - 08/11/2008

Workout:

• Type: Cycle
• Date: 08/11/2008
• Time: 06:00:00
• Total Time: 1:08:45.00
• Average Heart rate: 123
• Calories: 485
• Distance: 15.19 miles
• Average Speed: 13.26 mph
• Max Speed: 32.2 mph
• Average Cadence: 74

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Sunday Ride 30 Miles

Workout:

• Type: Cycle
• Date: 08/10/2008
• Time: 06:00:00
• Total Time: 2:19:13.00
• Average Heart rate: 123
• Calories: 979
• Distance: 30.38 miles
• Average Speed: 13.09 mph
• Max Speed: 34.2 mph
• Ascent: 748 ft
• Descent: 735 ft
• Average Cadence: 72

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job and cycling don’t mix

Work is definitely cutting into my biking! I am working this weekend most likely and Saturday I will not have time for any ride much less a long one. Oh, well, hopefully I’ll get a Sunday AM ride in of 30 or so miles.
Today I just had time for a 10 mile ride cause I had a PT appointment for my hand at 7:50. Then off to work.
I rode at a good pace. At about the 2/3 point I was probably pushing it a little hard when I saw two serious looking riders pull out of a side road ahead of me. They weren’t working too hard and I couldn’t resist even hammering it a little harder so I could go flying by them (”on your left!”). I realized I was a little overextended cause my legs were wanting to give out at that point.
Of course, they couldn’t let this geezer with a retro Raleigh do that so in my rear-view mirror I saw them coming up on me. On the second or third hill they finally passed me and I wasn’t going to try another attack. I was pretty much spent and needed to cool down for the end anyway.
Boy I was feeling it today from that little 40 minute ride!
But I’m getting there! Wherever THERE is!

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Cycle - 0.7 hours - 08/07/2008

Workout:

• Type: Cycle
• Date: 08/07/2008
• Time: 06:00:00
• Total Time: 00:41:43.00
• Average Heart rate: 122
• Calories: 286
• Distance: 10.32 miles
• Average Speed: 14.84 mph
• Max Speed: 35.8 mph
• Average Cadence: 80

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easy? … or hard?

When I first started cycling about a year ago, I sort of had the idea in the back of my mind (sounds better than semi-conscious idea) that as I continued to ride it would get easier. Climbing hills would get easier and I would go faster with less effort. I guess that’s true more or less but I don’t have easy rides these days.
The other, I think, more significant aspect of getting fitter is that you can tolerate hard effort for longer durations better.
So, yes, while it is easier to climb the same hills I did a year ago and to ride 10 mph like I did a year ago, I find myself tackling harder, steeper and longer hills at a greater effort and kicking my average speed up on rides but overall putting in a higher intensity of effort … and enjoying it more. I have to keep working harder to get that cyclist’s “high”.
Does that sound like addiction?

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moderate cycling workout - bullock road - 18 mi

Workout:

• Type: Cycle
• Date: 08/05/2008
• Time: 06:00:00
• Total Time: 1:17:45.00
• Average Heart rate: 121
• Calories: 551
• Distance: 17.76 miles
• Average Speed: 13.7 mph
• Max Speed: 35.3 mph
• Average Cadence: 75

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Sunday: Charles’ Hill of the week

Today for our Sunday early AM ride (6:30 to 9), Charles and I rode out to the Thatcher Park area which is part of the Helderberg escarpment. We rode up to Pinnacle road but did not take the more difficult route up Beaver Dam road and then up Pinnacle. Rather we came up behind Pinnacle, as it were, up Indian Ledge road which is still a pretty good climb, and then down Pinnacle Road and Beaver Dam.
It was a great day. Cool, partly sunny, still, except for a little time when we approached the escarpment when some gusts blew by. A presage of Fall in the air. I felt somehow like I was on vacation in a National Park. Some gorgeous views coming down Pinnacle Road and Beaver Dam.
My front derailleur performed flawlessly, a great relief. Just about 30 miles round trip.
Here’s the map:

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