It’s a Miracle!
Went for a ride yesterday. It was about 30° out, overcast, spitting snow.Wound up being just over 2 hours. It was great getting out for a decent ride.
This was a regular route of mine which I call "brookview-s.albany-rarick-rowe-308".
As I usually do on this ride, I stop at a certain point a little over an hour in and have a Clif bar break.
I took off my riding glasses cause they will fog up when I stop riding and put them in the "drop slot" in my seat.
When I took off again, I forgot all about the glasses and didn't remove them from the seat.
I never missed them until I pulled into my garage at the end of the ride.
I hopped in my car and went back to the rest stop cause I knew exactly what happened although I had little hope of finding them intact as it was over an hour.
Well, long story short, I DID find them sitting nicely folded as if on display quite a long distance from where I stopped, in fact at a second stop where I adjusted my handlebar mounted camera. Right in the middle of the road with nary a scratch on them. I guess it helped that it was Rarick road which I frequently ride without ever seeing a car! ;-)
It made my day (besides the ride).
Here's the route:
Here are some video highlights of the ride:
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brookview-s.albany-rarick-rowe-308
lovely ride. 30° or so. Overcast. Spitting snow.
Workout:
- Type: Cycle
- Date: 12/29/2008
- Time: 08:00:00
- Total Time: 2:02:44.00
- Average Heart rate: 128
- Calories: 1034
- Distance: 25.98 miles
- Average Speed: 12.7 mph
- Ascent: 591 ft
- Descent: 587 ft
- Average Cadence: 73
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road ride … orchard hill
55°! overcast and rain at the end.
My snow, my beautiful snow is melting!
Workout:
- Type: Cycle
- Date: 12/28/2008
- Time: 13:00:00
- Total Time: 1:10:27.00
- Average Heart rate: 137
- Calories: 606
- Distance: 15.35 miles
- Average Speed: 13.07 mph
- Max Speed: 30.3 mph
- Average Cadence: 74
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Alarming weight gain!
Alarming but not surprising. No, I can't say I was alarmed. Chagrined maybe.Well, combine typical holiday eating excesses with an abrupt cessation of all exercise and what do you expect?
Classic!
It's not really the weather that has stopped me from cycling but the time and the daylight.
And daylight is not really an issue for the gym but time is.
I finally went to the gym today and worked out for 50 mins on the stat bike.
I'm going to ease back into it. I'm working out up to the top of Zone 2. That's 69%MHR.
Probably would be a good idea to clean and lube my bike too. It's still messy from my last ride.
And, I still need to get my XC skis ready. They need to have the heel plates installed.
A simple enough job.
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stat bike workout
starting easy
Workout:
- Type: Cycle
- Date: 12/27/2008
- Time: 10:00:00
- Total Time: 00:50:00.00
- Average Heart rate: 105
- Calories: 299
- Distance: 10.18 miles
- Average Speed: 12.22 mph
- Average Cadence: 83
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bike ride - meads lane short loop
computer sensor was out of alignment so i don’t have accurate numbers except from the HRM and mileage from MapMyRide.
Workout:
- Type: Cycle
- Date: 12/18/2008
- Time: 07:00:00
- Total Time: 00:39:57.70
- Average Heart rate: 118
- Calories: 285
- Distance: 7.86 miles
- Average Speed: 11.8 mph
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stationary bike
Workout:
- Type: Cycle
- Date: 12/17/2008
- Time: 06:00:00
- Total Time: 00:32:00.00
- Average Heart rate: 107
- Calories: 266
- Distance: 9.86 miles
- Average Speed: 18.49 mph
- Average Cadence: 84
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Cycling makes me happy
I'm sorry to have to say it but I'm glad I CAN say it. It's so conditional. True happiness should not be conditional.I got a couple of good rides in this weekend after almost a week of nothing but the gym and I went from doom and gloom to whistling a happy tune.
Even my wife noticed it this morning (a Monday morning).
I finally got together with my friend Brad on Sunday. He lives up in what we call the "hill towns" around here, the Helderbergs.
I decided to meet him at his house and ride from there 'cause I wanted to get on some new roads that I haven't tried before.
Brad raced for the Air Force in Italy and has nice bike so I'm way out of his league but I was grateful for the challenge.
My numbers are all messed up though because I forgot to turn on my HRM until well into the ride and my cyclocomputer said I did 37mi in one hour and my average speed was 27mph(?)and maximum speed was 77! It seems to like that 77. 'Twould be nice but I DON'T THINK SO!!! Needless to say the 'puter is not accurate. What happens is, it keeps counting numbers after I've taken it off the bike so if I don't record it right away it will be goofy (sometimes!)
So this was 2 days after the big ice storm and the ride was gorgeous ... a world of crystals and diamonds.
Here's the route. Keep going and there's a video:
Here's the video but it doesn't come close to capturing the beauty. Remember to click the YouTube logo on the video (you might have to click it twice) and then select "Watch in high quality" to get the best resolution.
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ice storm ride
Well, the day after the ice storm, actually.Here in upstate NY we had a severe ice storm on Friday as you may well know.
I wasn't going to ride on Saturday primarily because it was predicted to be very cold and it was but it was so beautiful that I wanted to take some video.
I figured I could ride for an hour in that cold (19° or so) without a problem.
I'm glad I went. It was a good ride. I only saw 2 other riders out that day.
One, looked like a pro rider out for training and the other an old geezer like me puttering along.
Here is the video of that ride. For better resolution, go to YouTube and click "Watch in high quality":
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ride in berne ny with friend
guesstimated these number because:
1. forgot to start my HRM until well into the ride
2. my bike computer screwed up as usual. It said I averaged 27mph. That would be nice but I don’t think so!
Workout:
- Type: Cycle
- Date: 12/14/2008
- Time: 13:30:00
- Total Time: 00:58:00.00
- Average Heart rate: 146
- Calories: 604
- Distance: 12.63 miles
- Average Speed: 13.07 mph
- Ascent: 620 ft
- Descent: 627 ft
- Average Cadence: 76
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