March 27, 2006

  • Back in training!

    March has been a pretty crappy month for me riding my bike.  We had to put our border collie Bubba down after a long illness.  He'd developed doggie dementia and was horribly incontinent towards the end and it was very sad and left me not really wanting to do anything for quite a while.


    But I'm riding my bike across the US in less than a month so I had to get back on my bike.  Bike #2, the carbon bike, has had something wrong with the brakes--  they're hitting the tire and not the rim which is really bad for braking so I haven't been riding it.


    So, I rode a century yesterday on Bike #3.  And a tough century it was.  I rode down the  coast to Half Moon bay and then took highway 84 up to skyline and then took that up over King Mountain down into Woodside.  Then I came back through Crystal Springs canyon up through the bike trails and then took Millbrae ave down to the airport where I watched planes take off for a while and then Camino Alto back into San Francisco.  It was a good hard ride but I felt good all day and I feel good today.  The bike performed really well but It would have taken a lot less time if it had been a little lighter.



    I forgot my camera which sucks because it was a beautiful day and I had a great comfortable ride.  I saw a lot of stuff I hadn't seen before and loved every minute of it.


     


    I'm picking up #2 today and will ride it after work either straight home or a little longer depending on how long the rain holds off.


    I've got all my travel preparations planned and am pretty much ready to go.  Yesterday's ride pretty much showed me that I'm in the shape I need to be in but I need to ride really hard until it's time to go.


    I'm still needing many pledges for the lifecycle so here's the link if you haven't pledged me already:


    http://www.aidslifecycle.org/2976


    Thanks again!