Back to Spinning

Since it's too nasty to ride outside, I decided to take a one hour spinning class at Wow Fitness.
The new instructor was energetic and gave us a good workout. Burned about 500 calories, which is not exactly a record. (I sometimes hit 700+ with the "Helenator" and Rick, the owner.)

Bingo has been called

Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you -- I completed the mileage challenge with that last ride! I have exactly 3000 miles.

I also failed to mention that I did laps around the housing area behind the motel until I reached 120 miles!

Yiipppee!!

That doesn't mean I plan to stop riding! (The stormy weather in Oregon might have a say, however.) Hmmmm, maybe we need to take another trip to a sunny place!!

Century #29: Assault on Arizona Hwy 90

Rode 120 miles today. Visted Huachuca City, Benson, Ft. Huachuca (passed main gate), Palominas, Hereford, and back to Sierra Vista. It wasn't entirely flat, not-so-windy today, but very sunny!

I still got a little red even though I was wearing SPF-30 (water resistant, etc).
After the ride I discovered that my front tire was soft. Found the culprit -- a small piece of wire from retread casings (which were everywhere). Pulled out two chunks, but found only one hole in the tube. Even so, I think the Ritchey "Tom Slick" tires held up well considering all the rough roads, glass, and tire fragments that I ran over. (I tried hard to avoid the stuff.)

At the 2002 and 2004 Pac-tour training camps (held here in Sierra Vista) I had a lot of flats on my Air Friday travel bike, which used 20" tires. Couldn't get tires that are as durable as Continentals (can you say Gator Skins, GP 3000/400? I knew you could).

Fortunately I'm now riding a travel bike that can use my favorite (700c) tires (guess which ones!). Who knows, maybe I'll get some more Tom Slicks for my Breakaway when these wear out.


Mileage: 120
Calories: 4906
Temp: 79F and sunny!
Climbing: 2725 ft
Avg altitude: 4128 ft.

Century #28: El Tour de Tombstone

We're reporting in from Sierra Vista, AZ. Today I rode my Richey Breakaway 101 miles. Headed out to Huachuca City and Benson (via Hwy 92/20) and took Hwy 82 to Tombstone. Absolutely sunny -- high temperature of 80F.

Mileage: 101
Calories: 4636
Temp: 80F
Avg altitude: 4058 ft.
Climbing: 2765 ft.

Do you suppose it's ok to toss the food??

Century #27: Decker loop, Brownsville, Shedd, Peoria loops, Tangent, Philomath

Welcome to Brownsville.	Historic church in Shedd.	Amtrack train that came blowing by soon after I crossed.

Played hookey from work today -- actually my boss encouraged me to try to get a century in today. The weather is about to turn soggy for a few months, actually about 6!

Distance: 101.6
Average temp: 47F
Cadence: 58/94
Average: 17.7 mph
Calories: 4043
Climbing: 1255 ft (mostly the Decker loop)
Miles-to-medal: 223.2 miles
Ascent-to-date: 72,855 ft (only the centuries)

Century #26: Shedd, Brownsville, Rowland, Peoria Rd loops

It never really warmed up today. The fog didn't burn off until around 1pm as I approached Brownsville. Saw a bunch of wild turkeys on the way out of Brownsville on the Rowland loop!


Rode 98.4 miles -- almost ran out of daylight!

Calories: 3875
Climbing: 1360 ft.
Avg Speed: 17 mph
Miles-to-medal: 324.8
Cadence: 59/87
Counties visited: Benton, Linn

Go Beavs!!! This just in -- Oregon State beats #3 USC!