3 posts tagged “bikes”
Short story:
- Saturday morning: AWESOME. 25mph pacelines [while my cardio system allowed it], great fun.
- Saturday afternoon: My it band acted up in a nasty fucking way and I had to get driven in to camp because I couldn't walk. I saw a massage therapist that night and she spent some time loosening shit up.
- Sunday morning: I was stiff as hell but not in pain and took it super easy in the morning
- Sunday afternoon: Fog burns off, weather heats up, I feel great and complete the ride without issue.
Longer story:
Doing this ride a second time was a lot different than doing it the first time. The most obvious difference, to me, was how much more prepared I was this year. I mean, I obviously wasn't adequately prepared for the cold on Saturday morning and suffered the consequences. But, as to my physical fitness level, the ride was MUCH more doable this year than last. It even got to the point where I would be cruising past points I remember stopping at last year because I was so tired.
It was also a ton of fun (as it was last year!) to ride with The Anti MS Crew. We splurged and bought full team kits which we all wore on Saturday. We looked pretty smashin', if I say so myself. It was fun to be able to recognize people from a distance. Plus, it's a nice memento from the ride.
I'm a little sad I won't be able to do the ride next year (I'll very likely still be doing the cross country tour which I swear I'll talk about soon) - but it was great to do it a second time.
Sorry for not posting anything today [Sunday] during the ride - I left my phone in my gear bag in the morning. Oops.
Thank you all for the texts, etc. Hope your weekends were great :)
From a fun ride on Monday night.
My Bridgestone, her Atala:
In the spirit of riding long distances to help excellent causes, meet amazing people, and eat tons of double plus good food I have again signed up to do the Waves to Wine 150mi ride for Multiple Sclerosis!
The ride is on September 13th - 14th and goes from San Francisco to Healdsberg. This was the first charity ride I did last year so I'm pumped to be doing it again. I'll be doing longer rides on the weekend again so if any of you bike ridin' folks are interested in doing a Three Bears Loop (this website only sometimes works in FF3.. might require Safari/IE) on the weekends let me know. It's around ~45 miles with ~5000ft of climbing. Takes maybe 5-6 hours depending on breaks (I usually take a bunch of breaks to take in the views).
If you feel inclined to donate you can use the intertubes and donate at this URL: http://main.nationalmssociety.org/site/TR?px=4379733&pg=personal&fr_id=9066. After all the amazing generosity so many people poured out for the AIDS LifeCycle I almost feel bad to mention I'm doing another ride. But I am, because I love doing these, and if you want to donate I would really appreciate it.
I'll also be posting more training ride summaries as I get closer to the ride. Yay bikes!
And, finally, if any of you want to join me that would be even MORE awesome. So let me know if you're interested and we can definitely train together :)
