Riding my bike

I put some good miles on the road bike this weekend.  More so than I have in quite a bit.  Two back to back days of some good ol fashioned endurance riding.  Saturday, I rode down to Ithaca and back.  Lil bit boring route, mostly flat, some good views of the lake, but nothing spectacular.  Rolled it back and the skies opened up.  Nothing like riding home in the rain for 2+ hours with legs that feel like lead.  It was actually quite miserable.  I almost contemplated calling in the broom wagon for a pickup.  But I figured, I got myself into the ride, I better get myself out.  Besides, if you’ve seen my twitter posts, you all know that Bridget really doesn’t answer her phone.  I’d have been home by the time she answered anyways.

Sunday though was the Naples Throwdown.  If you’ve been with me down to Naples for a mountain bike or road ride, you know my evil ways.  I pretty much picked a doozy.  77 miles, 6k+ of climbing, with majority of the climbs averaging well over 10%.

Good group of GVCC’ers were brave enough to show up and throwdown for the event.  Though I mighta scared a few of em off with the dirt road descents

But Hey, there were some great views.  Though my eyes were crossed at the top of Bopple Hill (27% will do that to you)

Even though Housler partied it up the night before, never did manage to get him to puke.  Ah well, believe me there was plenty of suffering to go around.

Nothing like a massive climbing day where the average cadence is 75 rpm.  After Flint Hill, I looked down and it said my average was 53rpm, that was 3+ hours into the ride!!

Tonight:  Park Ave XC finale at Camp Arrowhead.  Booyeah.  Feeling good and looking forward to ripping it up!!

Weekend:  Thinking a massive 85-100+ mile day on the mountain bike, then taking it easy Sunday and hitting up the boat.  Gonna head with Bridget and Lake to camp in the Adirondacks the 5th & 6th and not gonna do any training so a mondo weekend is in order!!