Breakaway Cycling Launch

My friend Deanne just launched this new site; http://breakawaycycling.blogspot.com/

Great rides for women--and guys too.

We can all use more opportunities to ride right?

See you there Jan 11th...

Here's a pic of Lady D at one of my Pink Train rides:)

Back to the Dark Side

The rain is not keeping me off my bike any longer.....Christmas Day mountain biking...


A few repairs....

What Champagne--it's drinking and driving that's bad right?

I love mud puddles!

No traffic

No noise

Nature

Just freedom to breathe fresh air

Think without distraction

Fall and not care

Get dirty and love it

Mountain biking has some really great things to offer--I'm going to do this more often

~rl

PIRU Time Trial

5 a.m. wake up alarm to get ready for Piru Time Trial today...really hard to motivate..it was cold, chance of rain, but I needed to do this so after a pancake, banana and some coffee I headed out.

Warm up was short and I was really trying to talk myself into not doing it...but I had put the aerobars on and was determined to give it a try, hopefully without crashing.

All in all it ended up good; I started early with a push off at 9:09. First mistake right out the gate--being in too big a gear, so I got out of the saddle and pushed out, then settled in a bit down the road, but my HR climbed pretty good.

I knew I had to get it back if I was going to keep enough gas in tank for the end, so I just remembered what the plan was..spin like a bee for 20 minutes. I hit the turn around mark at exactly 19:57...so that I was pleased with.

Unfortunately, I misjudged the distance and was crawling up the last hill...I looked for the last downhill and dug deep. I was happy to see that I came into the finish line doing 24 mph--I had nothing left and that's how it should be. I had taken 2 minutes of my last time on this course; happy with that.

As usual I learned a lot of what not to do and I was able to stay in the aero bars the whole time except uphills, so I'll take that as a small success.

~rl