Swimmin' 'n' bikin' 'n' fightin' 'round the world
Well, swimming and biking anyways.
To keep it nice & short, I swam 40 minutes yesterday, including 20 minutes of snorkeling, 10 minutes of alternating breaststroke/freestyle with snorkel mask & tube and 10 minutes of old school swimming with no mask or tube, just ordinary goggles. Awesome.
Today I biked 9.24 miles in 39:51, an average of 13.8 mph. Max speed was 23.5. This was on the Fisher with the Continental Contact tires. So are the Contacts faster than the Bontragers? I'll go ahead and say probably yes. That's a faster average than my fastest previous Somerset ride. I concentrated on taking it easy, shifting to lower gears to maintain cadence and lower heart rate... but I didn't wear my heart rate monitor so I'm only 95% sure I was faster with less effort. So I want to try that and also I'd like to try the Town & Countrys. Both of which will probably have to wait until I get back from NC.
Looks like I may also have to wait until then to ride my Trek. I stopped by the bike shop yesterday to pick up the bent wheel only to find it's not ready yet. They hadn't called and since it was supposed to be ready either Friday (Aug 1) or Monday I was ready to be a little bent out of shape &mdash but they haven't been able to get the cassette off to get to the spokes. It's seized. They applied some serious penetrating lubricant (like a high grade 3 in 1 or whatever) and will hit it again after that does its magic. That bike did spend a lot of time in the sun before I had it, so maybe it's not surprising. So I'm actually embarrassed to have been on the edge of irritated with these guys. They do have an excellent reputation...
That's not as short as I'd envisioned. Anyway to sum up, that's 80 of my 275 minutes for this week.
To keep it nice & short, I swam 40 minutes yesterday, including 20 minutes of snorkeling, 10 minutes of alternating breaststroke/freestyle with snorkel mask & tube and 10 minutes of old school swimming with no mask or tube, just ordinary goggles. Awesome.
Today I biked 9.24 miles in 39:51, an average of 13.8 mph. Max speed was 23.5. This was on the Fisher with the Continental Contact tires. So are the Contacts faster than the Bontragers? I'll go ahead and say probably yes. That's a faster average than my fastest previous Somerset ride. I concentrated on taking it easy, shifting to lower gears to maintain cadence and lower heart rate... but I didn't wear my heart rate monitor so I'm only 95% sure I was faster with less effort. So I want to try that and also I'd like to try the Town & Countrys. Both of which will probably have to wait until I get back from NC.
Looks like I may also have to wait until then to ride my Trek. I stopped by the bike shop yesterday to pick up the bent wheel only to find it's not ready yet. They hadn't called and since it was supposed to be ready either Friday (Aug 1) or Monday I was ready to be a little bent out of shape &mdash but they haven't been able to get the cassette off to get to the spokes. It's seized. They applied some serious penetrating lubricant (like a high grade 3 in 1 or whatever) and will hit it again after that does its magic. That bike did spend a lot of time in the sun before I had it, so maybe it's not surprising. So I'm actually embarrassed to have been on the edge of irritated with these guys. They do have an excellent reputation...
That's not as short as I'd envisioned. Anyway to sum up, that's 80 of my 275 minutes for this week.
posted by Bud at 11:39 PM
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