Wednesday, October 6, 2010

adding miles

i woke up just before 5:00 this morning and was out the door riding by five after. i felt great accelerating out of my driveway and up pine street, so i picked up my speed a bit when i hit the highway.

i rode ten miles out then turned around knowing i might have time for more, but not wanting to be too far from town if my headlight decided to conk out. i had it on low beam, but i'd run it for about an hour earlier in the week and don't trust it to go longer than three hours on high.

i rode back to town and still had fifteen minutes to spare, so i turned south and rode down to 30th street south of the river and back. i still had five minutes when i got back to town so i rode out to the top of mock hill and back. that took about twenty minutes, so i just changed breakfast plans and we had oatmeal. in the microwave you can have a hot bowl of cereal in less than five minutes.

riding nearly 30 miles made up for not riding at all yesterday. it was really hard at the end of the day to resist going out for a run or a ride. i was feeling great. i held off till today anyway and i'm glad i did. i felt really good this morning. only my fingers and toes were not happy in the cold. (29.55 miles @ 17.3mph)

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