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thisnewdayRode 8-plus miles on the bike today. Which was actually a little more than I'd intended because I was trying to find a route that would double my current 3.16 mile ride so that I could ride my daily six miles in one session for the rest of this season.
So, for my first ride today, I tried a route which first took me west, instead of east, of my house and then looped back to a point in my old route where I would continue on it to the finish. But I found two problems with it.
First, it added only two miles instead of the three I needed. And secondly the paving was quite bad through a residential area where there were no options to safely pass, or be passed by, approaching traffic.
Back in the day, when I was a daily commuter, that wouldn't have been a problem, at least not on my last bike.
That was a Cannondale Delta V-700 which had the proprietary "Headshock" front fork and 26" German mountain/hybrid tires with which I had replaced the original mountain bike tires.
Because it was, in fact, a legit mountain bike. And I had found, as I thought I would, that its ability to handle unpredictable road conditions far outweighed anything it might've conceded due to added weight, frame geometry, gearing, etc.
(In reality, it conceded little in terms of weight because the frame was a proprietary aluminum tubing manufactured in the U.S. and hand-assembled at their plant in Emmaus, PA.)
These days, I'm riding a low-end hybrid bike and, although I've upgraded to a French road-bike tire, for puncture resistance, they don't offer the shock absorption of a mountain or mountain/hybrid tire.
Anyway, my first ride was about 5 miles and I was gonna call that good enough for the day. But then, after resting and rehydrating for an hour, found I really didn't wanna do that. And so did my original route as a second ride for the day.
Now, I'm kinda gassed but also kinda OK with that, lol.
Not sure what I'm gonna do tomorrow, even if we don't get the rain they've forecast. Probably just ride the old route twice, if I can sneak in two rides between the raindrops...
LPK
Dreamwidth
5.14.2022
So, for my first ride today, I tried a route which first took me west, instead of east, of my house and then looped back to a point in my old route where I would continue on it to the finish. But I found two problems with it.
First, it added only two miles instead of the three I needed. And secondly the paving was quite bad through a residential area where there were no options to safely pass, or be passed by, approaching traffic.
Back in the day, when I was a daily commuter, that wouldn't have been a problem, at least not on my last bike.
That was a Cannondale Delta V-700 which had the proprietary "Headshock" front fork and 26" German mountain/hybrid tires with which I had replaced the original mountain bike tires.
Because it was, in fact, a legit mountain bike. And I had found, as I thought I would, that its ability to handle unpredictable road conditions far outweighed anything it might've conceded due to added weight, frame geometry, gearing, etc.
(In reality, it conceded little in terms of weight because the frame was a proprietary aluminum tubing manufactured in the U.S. and hand-assembled at their plant in Emmaus, PA.)
These days, I'm riding a low-end hybrid bike and, although I've upgraded to a French road-bike tire, for puncture resistance, they don't offer the shock absorption of a mountain or mountain/hybrid tire.
Anyway, my first ride was about 5 miles and I was gonna call that good enough for the day. But then, after resting and rehydrating for an hour, found I really didn't wanna do that. And so did my original route as a second ride for the day.
Now, I'm kinda gassed but also kinda OK with that, lol.
Not sure what I'm gonna do tomorrow, even if we don't get the rain they've forecast. Probably just ride the old route twice, if I can sneak in two rides between the raindrops...
LPK
Dreamwidth
5.14.2022
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Date: 2022-05-21 08:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-05-21 11:44 am (UTC)As far as fortitude, that's definitely helped by the fact that I train indoors through the winter months so that, even if not ideal, I'm at least not starting at square one every spring with respect to conditioning...