Sunday, July 31, 2016

Thirty Day of Outside; Days 1 - 5

After the HRS rides last weekend I took a couple of days off the bike and got back into things from Wednesday onwards. So the week shook out like this;

Monday and Tuesday off, massage on Monday!

Wednesday; a quick but easy ride around a local loop. Nothing to crazy just a solid ride and some play with my Virb X

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Thursday; best described as up, down, left right and home again. After last weekend’s ride I decided to switch out my Continental Grand Prix II tire for some Schwable Ones. I have some thoughts to share on the change of tires in another post.

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Friday; ticked another hill climb off of the SMMC list…or did I! I thought I had gone far enough along the valley floor to hit the turn around. Having looked at it on the map, it looks like I was .75 of a mile short…oops!

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Where I should have ridden!

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My Ride…ugh!

Saturday; this day I did tick off two of the climbs. I had a hot day in the hills riding from home to the coast and back again. Covering the Westlake and Decker to Firestation from PCH.

Lots of black tarmac ribbons!

Sunday; Becca and I headed out and knocked out a 50 mile that covers the first 40 miles of a local Century. It’s a nice ride that has some punchy hills. It’s on some quiet backroads through farmland and while there is not that much bike lane it’s pretty quiet.

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So for the week, considering I took a couple of days off it turned out pretty solid! Just under 12 hours and 177 miles. Also Sunday was the last day of the month so that was tidy!