Foggy, soggy and slow...

Rode alone. It was cold and got colder.

Route: Pleasant Valley, then zigzagged my way through Emeryville (and psychotic drivers who don't signal!) and took the Bay Trail to Richmond. Through the ghetto, then checked out my old house/neighborhood, crossed San Pablo took some road up to San Pablo Dam road (way cold, saw my breath!), then up Wildcat Canyon through Tilden, out Shasta Gate onto Grizzly Peak. (Very Thick fog, drippy fog!), dropped down Claremont, took College back to Pleasant Valley, then Grand to Lake Merritt, and home to a hot shower .

Distance: 42.13 (finally cracked 40!)
Avg Speed: Slow as fuck, or 12.8 (I think I was bonking the last 10+ miles and did nothing about it)
HR Avg: 153, max HR this ride 180 (that's above 95%, bad Jen!)
Time: 3:16

Realization: Yes, I lost last season/last year. This year/season, I will be able to ride, but it is essentially lost in any meaningful sense of the word because it's going to be about rehab. Getting back to where I was before the accident. I'm slow on hills, there's no denying that. At one point, I nearly cried because I was doing 3.5 mph up the hill in Tilden. So sad. I once cruised that at 8-10mph.

At least I have two legs, right? I can still walk and ride a bike.

I was totally wobbly and making poor decisions towards the end. Need to eat and drink more. Breakfast plus one Hammer Gel doesn't tide you over until 4pm. Especially since my calorie expenditure said I burned 2098 calories.

Cracking Thirty

My 2007 Cycling Season Got Started This Week!!!

Monday:

1:08 ride time
13.8 miles
no other data available
route: Start at Marty's in the Oakland Hills. up Snake, left at Skyline, Down Claremont, Up Old Tunnel, back on Skyline drop down to Marty's.

Tuesday:

1:15 ride time
14.9 miles. (if I recall correctly)
forgot my average speed
SAW MY HR MAX!!! not good!
route: Up Park, left on Mountain, up Colton Blvd, Snake to Skyline, right on Skyline, down Joaquin Miller, right on Mountain and drop back down Park.

Wednesday:

2:53 ride time
38 miles
avg speed: 13.0
avg HR 146, max HR 175 (92%)
route: leave from Mark's on Delaware in Berkeley, ride surface streets paralleling BART tracks through El Cerrito, ride on road then parallel to I-80 East, take San Pablo Dam Road which becomes Camino Pablo, then becomes Moraga Way, right to the town of Canyon, then take Pinehurst (accidently typed Pinehurt, which would be appropos!) up to Skyline, drop down Old Tunnel, ride through UC Berkeley campus, and take city streets back to Mark's.


fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!!!

I teach tomorrow, so I will be riding indoors. Then off to Tahoe for the weekend, so maybe this it for the week.