ride a century

Had a nice 39 km ride the other day by taking a familiar route and altering it a bit to see some new scenery.

100 minutes in the saddle yesterday.

Actually it felt fine afterward. Wore the team shorts so I was stylin’ when my neighbours joined me in the fitness studio.

Found The Comedy Network on the telly during the workout… a very old Red Green episode. Filmed at CFPL London so that makes it super-ancient.

Red addressed the younger generation unlike the last several seasons of the show where he was definitely addressing the older generation. I just figured out why… the audience aged! Red didn’t change the actual people he was addressing, those people just aged 20 years because the show has been on for so long ;)

Gotta love the Harold character, played brilliantly by Pat McKenna.

minutes today. Wearing proper shorts helps being in the saddle that long.

in last 5 weeks or so since last entry so now over 203 miles or 330 kilometers have been covered in total.

or 37.5 miles from this past 8 days and the cumulative amount is over 118 miles.

Next step is to ride a century within a month, then within a week.

or 32.5 kilometers in one hour.

81.28 miles now done on the cumulative indoor count.

40 minutes! Kept the heart rate lower than last ride; was not riding for speed but rather extending the ride time. At that pace and level, it felt like more time could be done.

Still covered the first 12.5 miles (warm-up included) in 34:44 which was the same time as last workout.

Next workout, cumulative metric century (100 km or 62.5 miles) will be passed in first few minutes of the ride.

The change in season means it is easier to ride indoors now.

The indoor distance only will count toward my first step of riding a cumulative century. In the first four sessions, 46.85 miles have been covered (76.13 km).

so cumulative is 147.35 km. So next training day will take me over the 100 mile mark.

testing the bicycle and included a 5 km loop time trial for triathlon training purposes.