June 24th Ride Reports

[hibiscus09]

I did my ride this morning because Dogmama told me I had to. We headed out at 6:00a.m. and that felt wonderful as it actually felt a little cool -- yay for no humidity! And, ummmm DUUUHHHHH -- I can be such a blonde sometimes. I was trying to keep at Brian's cadence and realized I was pedaling at least 1.5 times -- maybe a bit more for his every rotation. Then, ding, ding, ding -- I figured out he was on the largest spoke. I switched over -- and voila -- like magic boys & girls -- I could go faster.

Kiawah is perfectly flat, so I never thought to change my gears. Doy.

So, today we did 26 miles at a 16mph pace. My max speed was 19.79mph -- so I'll take it. We didn't make it to 30 miles because Brian had a tee time.

I actually felt like a cyclist a little bit today. I'm not sure what to do for fueling my rides, but today I had 1/2 an English muffin before I headed out (Thomas makes cool multi-grain English muffins with 8 grams of fiber!). Then, on the ride, I drank a bunch of water & half a Gatorade. Next, I'm going to have the other half of muffin with some Allfruit with a whey shake/glutamine/amino acids.

Hope that works.

YAY!