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elhoff ([personal profile] elhoff) wrote2006-09-05 01:15 pm
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Today's bike ride

It was a hard ride today.  I was tired from a poor night's sleep when I started.  Forced myself to do the long 24 mile loop anyway.  I needed the miles and time on the road to focus my mind a bit after what happened on Sunday afternoon.  I think it worked, at least some.

Stats:
Distance: 23.86 Miles
Ave Speed: 14.1 MPH
Max Speed: 23.4 MPH
Time:  1 Hour, 41 Minutes
2 two minute rest stops
One brief stop to cough up a bug I inhaled

My legs are pretty sore and the stairs are a bit tough to navigate, but overall I feel pretty good.  Need to do this once a week, interspersed with the 13 mile loop a couple times a week.

That makes 46 miles on the new bike.  I still really like it.  It rides amazingly smooth on these country roads.  I think I do need a couple adjustments though:  Hands still go numb on and off starting fairly early in the ride.  Bottoms of my feet got persistently numb for the last half of the ride.  I think I need seat position adjustment and maybe a shorter stem.  No pain in elbows or knees today though.  Need to move my computer to the handle bars, can't read it where it is on the stem.  Caught a rock under my rear brake pad and put a hell of a gouge in my rear rim.  Frustrating.

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