Time to Increase

Had a good day on the bike yesterday with another four hour ride and 75 miles. I commuted only two days last week due to other obligations. This week I plan to ride to work all four days. My trainer says I have to start increasing my time by ten percent. Basically adding at least 10 min of time to my commute. That should not be a problem. Next weekend is the fourth of July and I don't know what the riding will be like for Saturday. We plan on having a cookout so there will be a lot of cleaning and preparing that needs to be done beforehand. 

My sister and nieces come in to town on friday. We look forward to seeing them. We haven't seen them since our May trip and the time spent together is always too short.

Big Week

I had a big week of riding and feel good. I finished with over 200 miles this week and felt that I rode pretty strong on saturday. I hurt myself by getting into a six man breakaway just after the halfway point of the ride. That effort, which proved to be fruitless because we were caught right before the sprint, did me in for the rest of the ride. I got dropped as soon as we were caught. I was unable to keep up the speed of the group but I still felt pretty strong. I decided to keep riding and continued on with the ride by myself. Near the end, I met up with Doug from the Cycle Haus who had also called it quits and we rode back to the shop together. According to him, at the point where I met him, I had only missed about 10 miles of the complete ride. With that being said, My final mileage for the day was 75 miles. Had I not gone with the breakaway, I think I could have gone longer with the group. You can't just be a strong rider, you have to be smart too. 

I look forward to more bike commuting this week but monday I have to drive. I have some side work after my regular job that requires my truck.

Bad, Then Good

First the bad news. I had to cancel my trip up to Georgia. I was pretty disappointed last night and even more so today. I really like the trails in Dauset and would have enjoyed having our friends daughter stay with us for a week. Unfortunately, all my driving partners dropped out due to other issues and obligations. That makes for a long drive by myself to get there and a late drive back to be home in time for work monday morning. It just didn't seem like the best idea once I really sat down and thought about the sixteen hours of driving that I would have to do. 

Now the good news. I completed the work week and commuted every day. It takes about 30 minutes to get there and I stretched the ride home to an hour. So as of this morning, I have 9 hours on the bike for the week. I plan to ride today and tomorrow which will probably give me 5 more hours. I'm feeling good and plan to continue with this training regime until my trainer has me change over to intervals. 

Small Town

You can tell it's a small town and nothing is happening when a police officer pulls over a cyclist for no headlight/taillight and issues a ticket instead of just a warning. I guess the town has to make their money somehow, and catching real criminals is just way to time consuming. Well I was in the wrong and the lesson has been learned.

The riding is going well and I feel like I'm making progress. I've been on the bike three days a week and plan to start commuting to work again this week. I'm racing in Dauset Georgia this weekend and plan to use this race as a measure of my current physical ability. I'm also picking up our friends daughter who will be vacationing with us for a week.