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Been riding...


Got out for a nice road ride today. About 17 miles in just over an hour. Felt pretty good. Took yesterday off. Partway through the day, I had some really sharp pain in my knee (just below knee cap). Iced this morning and made sure to stretch before and after today's ride. Feeling fine right now, but will have to keep and eye on it.

Let's see...did 2 rides with Tirpak over the weekend. Saturday, we planned to ride up the Sante Fe Trail, around the Greenland loop and back. No dice. Terrible trail conditions. Super slow going. Got to Greenland and decided to wind our way back to Monument through the Glen. Sunday, we rode up Mt Herman Rd to the top entrance to Limbaugh and back to the house. Good training!

The Maverick SC32 on my snow bike blew chunks from one leg. Not sure what's up with that. With very little snow, I'm not inclined to figure it out right now.

Comments

sftriman said…
Cool pic of your bike. Sounds like you were averaging just over 17MPH, which is good with the hills you have. I wonder if that new Google Maps biking trails addition would show bike routes for the Greenland loop. I read about the Google software in bike news on QBike. The funny thing was, the video demo of the route was at a park I recognized! So I'm going to try to route it like they did. I just wonder if it would route you the best way to Limbaugh and back or what.
Brad Baker said…
About 1000ft of elevation gain on that ride GoG ride.

I need to check out the Google biking stuff. I saw it mentioned on mtbr.com, but haven't had time to look yet.
sftriman said…
They used the Rails to Trails data for like 15,000 known routes to start out with. It's pretty good, from my testing, but I live in a city center, so it's likely highly tuned for my area.