I just spent the morning booking spots in some fun Springtime events: Pedal Power 2010, March 20, 2010: Pedal Power is an event that promotes moving to a more sustainable lifestyle and taking simple steps to reduce energy consumption coupled with an electricity-generating contest among 2-person teams of cyclists. There are demonstrators on site with [...]
Overall, I have to say my first triathlon experience was good. Since the start was a pool swim you had to submit an estimated swim time for 100 meters. I had no idea what to put so I just guessed at 2:30. That meant I started back where the poor swimmers were so I ended [...]
I’m going to try a triathlon next weekend, the 2009 3Sports Triathlon. A buddy pitched this particular event as a way to try out a triathlon since it has a super-short pool swim (just 300m), as opposed to an open water swim or something in the 600m pool swim range. I’ve been riding my bike [...]
I think I need to set some temperature parameters when deciding to ride to work or not. My poor, poor little piggies are still thawing. I might need a ride home…
This is what my normal bike commute will be once I break down and make this a new habit. 5.5 miles is completely reasonable. I would almost say it was borderline pleasant. To answer a couple of questions: 1) I’m not sure what model I have, but my mountain bike (which I am using as [...]
I finally broke down and shamed myself into riding my bike to work. 8 miles, and it took me about 40 minutes. I think I can shave another couple of minutes off the ride with some route tinkering but I’m not trying to set any records. On a bad traffic day it could take me [...]
Caught a solid ride today while Michelle and the troops were at the Gurney Tourney but I didn’t take into account how g-damn hot it was going to be. Here’s a grab of the temp at 4 in the afternoon. I don’t even want to know what it was when I was out there at [...]
Caught an easy 14+ miles after work today. Man, it feels really good to be out on the bike on a late Summer evening. Shadows were long, the air was warm but not hot, and the road was relatively open. I need to get some more of these in before winter gets here. And then [...]
I was lucky to have all 3 days off this Labor Day Weekend and I took advantage to get some nice bike rides in. I had big plans on Saturday to ride a loop from home down to the George Washington statue in our State Capital square and back. I got there okay but caught [...]
I just didn’t make enough time to do a lot of it this weekend. I knocked out a quick loop down to Arthur Ashe and back on Saturday morning before I left town for the day (for my fantasy football auction) and then I rode to the pool yesterday. I can’t really count that as [...]