Actually made it on my scheduled 10 mile bike ride yesterday. All the necessary factors were in place...
- Glorious spring day? CHECK!
- Stiff head wind? CHECK!
- Packed recreation trail? CHECK!
There are these funky bar thingies that stick out on the front of my bike. Aerowhatsis or something?
Wait, it's coming back to me.... aerobars! I can has them.
And I can kinda sorta even use them without falling over! And look just a leetle bit cool passing the family walking behind their toddler's trike!
I did forgot that I still needed to reset my cadence computer. Remembered to start it when I started, but I got cocky and tried to start and stop it manually at the busy intersections and accidentally wiped out my workout halfway in.
About halfway in I also started having trouble clipping on the left. About the time I realized I'd wiped the workout off the computer I glanced down and noticed I could see my cleat.
Hanging off the side of my foot.
Which would certainly splain the clipping issues.
I felt all fancy digging my bike tool out of my bottle rocket carrier; managed to tighten it up enough to limp home.
Bonus - lots of unplanned one leg drills!
Both my cleat thingies are bent and I'm missing most of the screws. Could get new screws, but the bent thing has me concerned. Not thrilled I need to spend money on replacements. But feeling kind of cool that I need to replace my cleats even though I can safely say I haven't but 5000 miles on them.
In general my biking is surprising the heck out of me. I'm averaging several MPH faster than I used to and feel like I've got more miles in me than before. Think I might set a personal goal of making it up to a 35 mile bike ride this summer - ashamed to admit I've never ridden more than 26 miles.
In other news... Bear's getting tubes in his ears in 2 weeks. Hopefully this is the start of a fever & antibiotic free life for him!
***UPDATE***
Mean Mr. Meaniehead (FKA Wonderful Husband) just pointed out my awesomely fast bike times might have something to do with the recently improperly reset bike computer.
To quote Mythbuster Adam: I reject your reality, and substitute my own.
Meanwhile... *heads upstairs to find bike computer manual*
1 comment:
Mean Mr. Meaniehead is right. It's just like thinking I kicked ass on my spinning bike and got all excited that I hit 20 miles and then a lady in class says, "don't get so excited, it's in Kilometers." I looked at this woman and snapped, "In my world it's miles." and she said, "Ok, it's miles." HAHA
Regardless of what Mean Mr. Meanie says, great job rocking your bike ride. That's freakin' AWESOME!!!
On another note, Ironman Wisconsin voluteering positions open tomorrow. You game? You can go there today to register to open a volunteering account with them and then positions are posted tomorrow. I'm trying for gear check on Saturday, Wet suit stripping, and finish line from 7-midnight. Let me know what you think.
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