I didn’t get around to recording two road bike rides in the last week. The one ride was about 25 miles and the other was about 15 miles. Pace was 15mph on the first and 14mph on the second. Also this week I went into the gym several times to run on the track and lift some weights. Gotta get ready for swimsuit season!
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I went on a Slow Ride for Fat Kids today with the cycling club. Well, it was only me. The rest of the club was a bunch of wusses when it started raining hard. Dan was especially a big wuss.
Total Distance: 14.1 miles
Total time: One hour exactly
Average speed: 14.0 miles
Max speed: 37.3
Calories: 764
Dan and I went out for a road ride for fat kids today. Including going to and from Dan’s house, my ride was about 20.5 miles. Our average pace was 12.6 miles (sloooow). My max speed was 31.6 mph. Total time including waiting around at Dan’s house was 1:39. Total calories burned was 1078 (according to my little $10 cycling computer).
Tags: bicycle, Coffee Loop, Dan D, Felt 95, Road Ride
I went on a road ride today to try and remember what it feels like to work out. My course took me through Philomath and back. In total I went about 16 miles.
Chris S. came to town yesterday to say hello. He and I used to ride bikes all the time back in our undergrad days. To commemorate our many bike adventures, we set out on my Felt 95 and KHS Alite 4000. At the base of Bald Hill the KHS started losing air from the front tire. We limped back to my apartment. Even with the short ride it was still nice to get out and have some fun with an old friend.
I went on a 21 mile road ride this morning to exercise the bike a little more during one of the rare dry weather breaks. I did the coffee loop again with an extension down to Airport Road. It was a nice ride but dang it was cold! If I can’t work the fat off by exercise maybe I can freeze it off.
Tags: bicycle, Coffee Loop, Felt 95, Road Ride
Yesterday I picked up my freshly updated mountain bike. I had been riding on the same original bike that I bought back in 2002. Needless to say, there were parts that needed replacing. I put a Marzocchi Bomber fork (10 Marzocchi 44 TST2 Air 140mm) on the front to replace a destroyed Sid Race fork. The wheelsets were changed out for XTR WTB Trail Lazerdisk rear and XT WTB Trail Lazerdisk front. New 2.3″ Continental Vertical (made in Germany!) tires. Juicy 3.5 disk brakes to replace the old vees that ate through the last set of rims. The upgrades weren’t substantial and the fork could actually be seen as a downgrade but the handling and performance of the bike was GREATLY improved.
Jordan and I went out for a short mountain bike ride up the back side of Dimple Hill on Lower and Upper Horse Trails. I was almost able to keep up with him on the descents. Still getting the feel of being able to go fast and take turns hard. One thing I did notice is that it’s more difficult to pedal the bike uphill. Must be the extra couple of pounds of weight and the larger mass at the outside of the rims.
The mountain bike ride was about 10 miles long. We turned around at the end of Horse Trail because Jordan had to be at work in a little while. The bomber run down the trails was great!
After I got home I decided to do a little road bike ride to try and keep the break-in process going for my new Felt 95. The weather looked ominous but I figured I could beat the rain. Just as I got to the base of Bald Hill the rain hit in full force. I raced back to my apartment just in front of the storm. The road bike ride was 5.5 miles and I did it in about 20ish minutes. Rain is a big motivator!
Tags: Bald Hill, bicycle, Biking, Covered Bridge, Dimple Hill, Jordan, McDonald-Dunn Forest, Mountain Biking, Road Ride
Here are a couple of photos of my new Felt 95. The first two are from the first ride with Kendra. The last is of the bike hanging on the wall in my kitchen.
I went on a quick jaunt to break in the new Felt 95 road bike. Kendra was kind enough to go with me to help keep me motivated. Total distance was about 15 miles. We kept a pace of around 15 miles/hr averaged out between the highway and city. Not bad for me being out of shape and fat!
Tags: Biking, Coffee Loop, Felt 95, Kendra S, Road Ride
One weekend I decided to take an afternoon ride across the Rhein river into France. Equipped with my boss’s mountain bike and my camera I set off without a map or any idea of what lay ahead other than that there was a bridge near my apartment and a ferry further up the river.
Crossing the Rhein. It was a few more kilometers to the border with France. Karlsruhe is right in the crux of the piece of France that juts into Germany. Had the world wars not happened, the whole Rhein river valley would still belong to Germany.
Looking out across the Rhein from the center of the bridge.
At the border crossing between France and Germany. This is looking back toward the German side.
The sign marking the border. No border or customs stations exist anywhere near this crossing. The old German customs house is an American 50s style diner now. A soccer field even crosses the border. And the town that is bisected by the border seems to not care a bit that half are French citizens and the other are German. Everyone spoke a heavy dialect of German. They also didn’t particularly like to speak to me in German and in fact I had to generally communicate in French or English. They all could understand me just fine. They just didn’t want to since I was speaking high German like that taught in the public schools and spoken at home in the northern parts of Germany.
A little concrete marker showing the border. 1991 was when this particular border crossing was opened. Now the marker serves as a good place to park a bicycle.
This cute little ferry took me back across the Rhein into Germany. Shortly before the ferry a carload of Germans pulled up alongside me and asked for directions in very bad French. I answered them in equally poor French that I wasn’t from there and had no idea where the town was that they were looking for. This ferry was built on top of old pontoon boat things left over from World War II. In fact the whole contraption appeared to be straight out of the American Army Corps of Engineers playbook. A few more kilometers of riding after I crossed the ferry and I was back at my apartment, tired but none the worse for wear.
Tags: bicycle, France, Germany, Karlsruhe, Rhein River, Road Ride, Summer 2005
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