Can we talk about our rides? It stopped raining for two days!! Old man had a nice 20-mile ride! Got to the cemetery about 6:30am in the pickup, not in a hearse with both bikes. Had to air up all the tires got my wife going then got all my crap on and away I went. My wife’s nick name is “shade tree”, she goes from shade tree to shade tree and today she did good and made a few blocks between texting and or talking on the phone but she's out there with me and trying. I did 10 miles around the loop then stopped for Gatorade and a rest then did the other 10 miles. Keep my heart between 120-138 most of the time and was back to 70 in 10 minutes after reloading the bikes. I averaged 13 mph and ran a nice 66-rpm’s. I feel great and I hope it is not raining Thursday so we can ride again. If not I’ll use the trainer in the carport. Life’s great, glad I got up today and look forward to tomorrow.
My last two rides were races, I finally gave into a friends nagging and tried it. Did a race both days of the weekend. Saturday I had no idea how fast everyone would be going at the start so I gunned it, I looked back and noticed I had made a gap between myself and the peloton. My ego took over and I tried to keep the lead instead of falling back to the group so I attacked a climb. After about a half mile I had completely exhausted myself from riding like a moron and was promptly passed by all but one guy. Sunday's race went better, but after a couple laps I fell off the back of the main group and was stuck out on my own and ened up wearing myself out fighting the nasty wind.
