Workout accountabilibuddies: did you exercise today?

Good idea! Right now it looks like I'm gonna play the "friend coming in from out of town" excuse for today, but still thinking I might get a ride in later. I will confess my sin later if need be.

 

No excuses! Had an hour to play with so I did hill repeats on a nastly little hill near the neighborhood. It's only a mile, but it gains 450 ft with the last 1/3 of a mile being 13-15% and pretty painful. I then did yardwork. I think this thread helped me not to just plop on the couch with a beer. Thanks, Integrate.

 

Okay... you guys have shamed me into a lap around the neighborhood to burn off about 1/16th of dinner.

 

47 mile ride in 20-25 winds w/ even bigger gusts. Yea I like this thread.

 

Sleep not a part of your schedule Integrate? Or did I just misunderstand? )

 

70 minute walk at lunch with SWMBO followed by leading a Cat 4 ride tonight.

Trying to force my way into a Cat 3 ride on Saturday despite in-laws being in town. . . .:hate:

 

Just finished walking a mile, and jogged a 1/2 mile!!! Tonight's the first time since January 12th that I've been able do anything but walk. Felt good... have a dilemma. May 12th is both a metric ride I'd like to do and it's also the first of a six 5k race series that I want to do. Decisions, decisions...

 

+1 on the ride vs run
Commuted to/from work today. 10 miles round trip

 

The club I am in now (since moving) rates the weekly/daily rides on a Category basis, in a descending order. Cat 1 is the hardest, typically many hills, 19-21 MPH pace and you'll be dropped. Cat 2 is a little easier but same deal with being dropped. Cat 3 is typically 14-16 MPH average which gets progressively harder each week. The early season Cat 3 rides are no drop, mid June you'll be dropped on some of them. Cat 4 is the easiest, 10-14 MPH average, about 20 miles in duration, easy hills; the other club rates them A,B,C,D.

Last night there were about 30 Cat 3 riders and no Cat 4 so I was going to ride Cat 3. One other person showed up and she wanted to ride Cat 4, so, since I was signed up to lead Cat 4, I did. She wasn't wild about the route I mapped out so we ended up taking part of the original route, reversing part of it and then adding in two other loops. 1 hour later, 16.8 MPH average and going neck and neck the whole time, I have a nice knot in my right quad; she totally sandbagged me. The nice thing is I was able to to stay on the big ring the entire time. I also managed to kill my speed/cadence sensor and my rear wheel reflector shot off when they all made contact. Cheap zip-ties:hate:

My goal is to enter and complete within the upper half of the field of the NJ Gran Fondo. I was going to enter the Philly one, but wasn't really impressed with it.