July 31, 2004
Week 2 :: Time Trial
Our ride today was the Alpine Road loop. Only 12 miles but hills and a final long 3.5 mile grade up hill the last part of the ride. This was the hardest 12 miles I have ever ridden. I suppose in a couple of months it won't seem so bad but it sucked! I kept asking why I was doing this as I was going up hill very slowly - pretty much going nowhere fast. But then I remembered our honorees and what they have all dealt with or are dealing with right now and I pedalled a little more and finally made the end.
July 28, 2004
Day 05: Shoreline
Erin and I spent the evening with gal-pal kiersten who is also training for TNT-Tuscon. We breezed around shoreline baylands, taking in the beautiful scenery and improving our time a bit from last week.
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Day 02: Coyote Creek
We spent a very hot day cycling in the southbay....the grass is really dry and the scorched hills are a reminder of the fire threat everywhere in california.
July 27, 2004
Easy riding
30 minutes easy before work today. More like 45 with the stoplights. It was hard not to keep going because I was just getting warmed up.
July 26, 2004
1st day photos
our honorees talk about their leukemia
photos from our first training session
July 25, 2004
Day 2 - Coyote Creek
We rode for an hour today, down at Coyote Creek. We got out by 9:30 but by the time we were done it was starting to be really hot. I ended up only doing a little over 10 miles in the hour. That is pretty lame. I need to keep working so I can get faster. Sheila went about a mile or two longer than I did. Coffee afterwards. I ordered a new little camera to take with me on rides. Much more reliable than the Pencam and better quality and megapixels than the old 1st generation elph.
July 24, 2004
First training ride
We had our first training ride today for the fall TNT season. Kickoff was Thursday night and it was incredibly inspiring. The ride today was relatively easy—except for one long giant grade of a hill that was rough. I'll get there eventually. Am in pretty good shape for the flats but the hills...
We did a tire changing clinic as well and everyone had to remove a tire, take it off the rim, remove the tube and then put it all back together again. Fun.
We ended up doing a total of about 16 miles with some hills around Foothill Expressway, Arastradero, Fremont and Concepcion over in Los Altos. Not too bad.