…Oh, I had such sites to show you…
But, alas, I’ve forgotten most of them. I just keep getting distracted from posting, despite the brilliant and engaging posts I compose in my head on my long runs.
HA! Yeah, so, maybe I’m just a slacker. (note, spell check knows “slacker”)
So here’s my update. Running is going fairly well. I’m focusing on the slow run. More on that in another post.
On top of the running I’ve been doing the Map My Ride – Versus – Tour De France Challange. Basically, you ride whatever you can on a similar route to the Tour and, assuming you have GPS, you can upload your route. Lots of prizes and such as well. Coooool…
I’ve been trying to really push it on the rides and pick my routes carefully. As it stands, I’m ranked at 172 overall out of about 12000. And I’m ranked #3 in the state of MN!
There are issues with the management of this challenge however. And I may get into them in a separate post. However, it forced me to run and ride every day which should turn out to be good training for the bike portion of the Minneapolis Duathlon that The Sally and I are racing as a team in.
Okay, boring post…I’ll work on it next time.
OH…and THIS is why we live here:
Oh…Hmmm…I don’t have a kingdom…but I got my MUD anyhow!
As The Sally wrote, the Tri-Loppet is my new favoritish race. This is my first, official, bicycle race. AWESOME! That’s all I can say.
Every time I saw a puddle I just had to ride through it… It was muddy. It was hot. I thought I might puke. It was FUN!
If your mountain bike isn’t covered in MUD…then you ain’t having a good time….
More photos after the break…
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I spent my 3 miler dodging cyclists. Actually, I guess they were actually dodging me since I was the one running on their turf along the bike lanes…. An entire peloton was circling the park over and over again. I guess they were training for something? Anyway, it made me want to ride my bike again. There’s a possibility I may sign up for a 100K bike ride in April, I’ll keep you posted. Except for the cyclists, my run was pretty uneventful….
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23 August, 2008, at
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cycling.
Tomate dusted off my mountain bike (it’s been about a year since that poor thing has seen the light of day) and we decided to go for a ride at the Mission Park Trails. Tomate has actually been riding quite a bit since he volunteered to be a pacer during the night portion of the Ragnar Relay in October. Anyway, it’s good crosstraining for me so Punxsk8erdude, Tomate, and I headed out to the Missions. It was raining when we got there, but hey…it’s just water. It was a short ride…somewhere around 12-15 miles…but we had a good time. I had forgotten how pretty the southern portion of the San Antonio River is. The Rock n’ Roll San Antonio Marathon route will actually cover parts of this area. I’m looking forward to that. 
All headwind and no break makes Lumpy a tired boy. All headwind and no break makes Lumpy a tired boy. All headwind and no break makes Lumpy a tired boy. All headwind and no break makes Lumpy a tired boy. All headwind and no break makes Lumpy a tired boy. All headwind and no break makes Lumpy a tired boy. All headwind and no break makes Lumpy a tired boy. All headwind and no break makes Lumpy a tired boy. All headwind and no break makes Lumpy a tired boy. All headwind and no break makes Lumpy a tired boy. All headwind and no break makes Lumpy a tired boy. All headwind and no break makes Lumpy a tired boy. All headwind and no break makes Lumpy a tired boy.
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So I chose today, with the near 70F temps, as the kick-off to my biking home from work season. Maybe this will kick start some much needed training for myself.
However, today we had a wind advisory in effect. 20mph winds, gusts up to 40mph, out of the South. Great, bringing all the warm Southern area up here to Minnefreezer. Here’s the flaw: about 80% 90% of my ride home is DUE SOUTH. I don’t feel like doing the math, but that’s a lot of force.
Let’s just say, I had to peddle while going downhill just to keep moving forward.
