Sunday Morning All Trails
Well Sunday Morning was a good ride. I ended up leaving around 8:15 since Darth Jr. was a little late getting up. I packed up and headed out. It was already Hot and Humid, but the light breeze was actually welcome. I rode the RED trail to the RIVER ROAD Trail and took that to the end and back. After coming back down the trail I went to the YELLOW trail and around down the river and by the dam. Coming back up to the main trail intersection I decided to hit the RIVER ROAD TRAIL again and went from the YELLOW intersection to the end and back to that intersection picking up the RED trail again... I then did the Normal RED, BLUE and Out... The trail was actually VERY busy so I was not about to take the paths too fast. On the River Road trail there was a Road Bike group of maybe 10 riders taking a break. All dressed alike. On the gravel parts I probably past around 30 people which is the most I have ever seen at one time. As for my riding it felt great. I noticed that by about the 30 minute mark I was actually in a grove. Again the hills were not a problem and the two paved hills on the BLUE trail were great to PUSH hard up... When I finally got to the hill of doom I was tired, but I pushed hard and speed to the top... Normally I take a breather, but instead I kept pushing it all the way to the top of the hill at the trail exit... FEEL THE BURN... On the way back I decided to ride down Lilly Lake road and then take Wagner so I could get the hill and straight away... Only hit about 24 MPH, but that is more then the posted speed of 20 MPH!!! Getting back to the house I switch the time to the Distance and notice coming up to my driveway I am at an almost PERFECT 20 Miles... I check all the stats then gear down and do a few passes of the house to cool down...
Stats before the 10 minute cool down...
20.02 Miles
12.3 MPH
1:39 Minutes or something...
Next Sunday it is off to Performance for SHOES, PEDALS and CLEATS!!! I am hoping to keep it all under the $125.00 mark. Since these will be my first attempt and I DESTROY shoes it is probably best to spend a little less...
My Uncle, Aunt and Cousins are in town back from Ireland and I was taking to him about biking. He has two custom Road Bike that he built in the 80's. By todays standrds he said they still are pretty darn good. He mentioned the pedals and shoes and how much of a differance he noticed riding that way. Having the double motion was great... He did say to make sure I do not pull up too hard and damage my hamstrings.
I look forward to getting the new equipment and trying that out. I also really hope we can do the 100 mile ride at the end of the summer. I am worried that my 64 mile ride along with my 10-25 mile rides are not enough.
Since April... 735 Miles...
6 comments:
Good luck on the shoes and pedals. I talked with a friend of mine the other day who was looking at new shoes and pedals and said the pedals would be about $200 and the shoes another $200. So what does he do? Buys a new bike.
Wow...those are expensive pedals. I am actually looking at a set that is DUAL... Flats on on side and Clip on the other. $39.99 Performance... Shoes $60.00 Performance Cleats if not with shoes $9.99 Performance... With this base I should be able to hit my goal of the $125.00...
I could spend a lot more and I probably will one day, but not the first time around...
Most likely Yaks friend is talking road shoes and road pedals (as apposed to mountains and probably Look ot even Time brand. You can spend as much as you want but I will stick with recessed MTB shoes as I like to be able to walk off the bike. I'm pretty confident that friend spend a grand or probably over 2 grand on the new bike if those were his pedal prices. That's OK. One (more) bike [kayak] is the perfect number to own right?
Yep, road stuff it is. And I'm guessing the new bike was considerably more than $2k.
Cleats come with the pedals. Whenever you buy new pedals they come with cleats. Performace has a two velcroe strap shoe and a three velcroe strap shoe I would highly recommend buying the three strap shoe as it will be much more comfortable on a long trip. I just bought shoes at Performance for $60 on sale from $89. I put the purchase on CK's Wifes's account as the HS kid at the register couldn't find CK hope the two accounts are one in the same.
Please provide a link or description...which shoes did you get snf next time feel free to use some discount points...this weekend is double reward points so the store should be insane... For me I love my Kato III's but need a second pair and at $20+ cheaper might have to try your shoe choice...but Im guessing they are a little less walkable and more for MTB and shedding mud?
Also get me the order # and I can make sure the purchase goes to 'our account' I consider it communal. At least you should have gotten 2 day instead of regular shipping. Did you do the phone or go to indy?
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