Today was odd. I set an alarm for 5:45 am and then five-minute snoozed until 7:45 am and then procrastinated further (I theoretically was going to go on a bike ride this morning) and eventually wound up on skype with Dave for a LONG time, after which I was in such a good mood that I went on a 5 mile run (which, as I have mentioned before) is a very long run for me.
Also, I forgot to mention Monday and Tuesday's rides. Because they were minuscule. I'll put them in the list anyhow to make myself feel less useless.
04.27.09 total: 8.3 mile work commut
04.28.09 total: 4 (yes, really) miles. To and from a bar. Yes. Really.
04.29.09 (aka today) total: 5 mile run
Thursday
Friday
04.24.09
Well. I didn't end up getting a ride in yesterday. I woke up and turned on my computer and started mapping one and then I remembered that I had a conference call to be on at 11:00 am. And that there was no way in hell I was going to be back fro my ride by then. So instead I went on a run. I haven't run in a long time. It wasn't bad at all, though it was also a fairly short run. Either way, I was hell-bent on getting a 50-mile ride in this week.
SO, today I did an almost-50 mile loop over Topanga Canyon and then back home via Sunset/Sepulveda. It was a good ride with lots of uphill and LOTS Of downhill (whee!) and I think I gave myself enough time and drank enough water and ate enough food that I'm not going to be completely waylaid for the rest of the day. Which is a good thing, since I really need to figure out what I'm doing with my CBB kids tomorrow (we're having a synagogue sleepover, oy).
04.23.09 total: 3.0 miles ruuunning
4.24.09 total: 47.15 miles on bike
SO, today I did an almost-50 mile loop over Topanga Canyon and then back home via Sunset/Sepulveda. It was a good ride with lots of uphill and LOTS Of downhill (whee!) and I think I gave myself enough time and drank enough water and ate enough food that I'm not going to be completely waylaid for the rest of the day. Which is a good thing, since I really need to figure out what I'm doing with my CBB kids tomorrow (we're having a synagogue sleepover, oy).
04.23.09 total: 3.0 miles ruuunning
4.24.09 total: 47.15 miles on bike
Wednesday
04.22.09
YAAAWWWWNNN.
So I biked a total of 45 miles today, which is ALmost what I wanted to do, but only by accident. I wanted to try and do 50 today and 50 tomorrow (and that isn't even really enough, I should be up to 70-mile rides by now (oy)) Yes. That was a double parenthesis. Anyhow, the reason the 45 miles was by accident is because it wasn't all in a row. I did 34 miles this morning, came home and ate a bit, biked to work and set up my computer and stuff, THEN biked to Mel's (diner, not the person) and had lunch with a couple of my TYG advisors and THEN biked BACK to the office and then biked home. So I don't feel like it was a real ride but it was. Kind of.
Either way, I will go on a ride tomorrow as well and maybe even one on Friday and MAYBE, depending on whether I feel like stuffing my bike into the backseat of my car, one on Saturday morning IN SANTA BARBARA. I miss riding in SB, I really really do. A lot.
total: 45 miles via bike (broken up into 35, 4, 1ish, 1ish, and 4)
So I biked a total of 45 miles today, which is ALmost what I wanted to do, but only by accident. I wanted to try and do 50 today and 50 tomorrow (and that isn't even really enough, I should be up to 70-mile rides by now (oy)) Yes. That was a double parenthesis. Anyhow, the reason the 45 miles was by accident is because it wasn't all in a row. I did 34 miles this morning, came home and ate a bit, biked to work and set up my computer and stuff, THEN biked to Mel's (diner, not the person) and had lunch with a couple of my TYG advisors and THEN biked BACK to the office and then biked home. So I don't feel like it was a real ride but it was. Kind of.
Either way, I will go on a ride tomorrow as well and maybe even one on Friday and MAYBE, depending on whether I feel like stuffing my bike into the backseat of my car, one on Saturday morning IN SANTA BARBARA. I miss riding in SB, I really really do. A lot.
total: 45 miles via bike (broken up into 35, 4, 1ish, 1ish, and 4)
Thursday
04.16.09
I did it!
I got up in the middle of the dark, biked to the meeting point, did a ride with the "East Side Posse" as they call themselves (which really just means they're ALCers who meet up at a Coffee Bean on the 'east side'..maybe of Griffith Park? I don't know what kind of East Side they're talking about). Anyhow - I'd done this ride with them once before and I drove my bike to the starting point, but I really don't like driving to bike so I'd been meaning to actually BIKE to the starting point but the ride meets at 6:30 and the meeting spot is a good 13 miles away from me, so as you can imagine, there is some motivation required to wake up at 4:45 am and hop onto a bike in the dark (yes mom I have a back and front light =) The upshot of this is that a) there are NO cars on the road at five am and all of the lights stay green for me and b) I rode 39 miles before 9:30 am.
total: 39 miles via bike (part of which was a massive ugly hill of pain and anguish)
I got up in the middle of the dark, biked to the meeting point, did a ride with the "East Side Posse" as they call themselves (which really just means they're ALCers who meet up at a Coffee Bean on the 'east side'..maybe of Griffith Park? I don't know what kind of East Side they're talking about). Anyhow - I'd done this ride with them once before and I drove my bike to the starting point, but I really don't like driving to bike so I'd been meaning to actually BIKE to the starting point but the ride meets at 6:30 and the meeting spot is a good 13 miles away from me, so as you can imagine, there is some motivation required to wake up at 4:45 am and hop onto a bike in the dark (yes mom I have a back and front light =) The upshot of this is that a) there are NO cars on the road at five am and all of the lights stay green for me and b) I rode 39 miles before 9:30 am.
total: 39 miles via bike (part of which was a massive ugly hill of pain and anguish)
Wednesday
04.15.09
Happy turn-in-your-taxes day!
So I didn't post yesterday but I actually managed to get myself out of bed at 6:23 am and bike into Griffith Park and back - I biked past the Zoo and up to the point where you continue to Crystal Springs Dr. or whatever and then turned around (I did need to go into work yesterday or I would have gone further).
I was going to do something similar this morning but when my alarm went off I didn't have the motivation to...I'm going on a hike with Mel though, so it kind of counts for crosstraining? I really need to bike more during the week, since I'm losing all of my weekends. Sigh.
04.14.09: 20.0 miles via bike
So I didn't post yesterday but I actually managed to get myself out of bed at 6:23 am and bike into Griffith Park and back - I biked past the Zoo and up to the point where you continue to Crystal Springs Dr. or whatever and then turned around (I did need to go into work yesterday or I would have gone further).
I was going to do something similar this morning but when my alarm went off I didn't have the motivation to...I'm going on a hike with Mel though, so it kind of counts for crosstraining? I really need to bike more during the week, since I'm losing all of my weekends. Sigh.
04.14.09: 20.0 miles via bike
Sunday
04.12.09
Posting from sunny Santa Cruz and my sister's definition-of-a college apartment - leaky bathroom sink and all. I drove up on Wednesday for Passover and took some extra time to detox with Tatty. It's kind of lame that I don't know the next time we'll be living in the same city, we're good for each other. Either way, my aunt Sue lent me her (beautiful gorgeous well-kept three-steps-up-from-my) bike so that T and I could go on a couple of rides (Tatty's joining me on the ride this year so I wanted to train with her at least a teensy bit).
Our first ride was a short one; we mostly just wandered around S.Cruz for a little over an hour. It was still definitely nice to get out on the road though, especially on a bike as nice as Sues. It reminded me of how much I need to be thinking about saving a bit of my next couple of paychecks for a pre-ALC tune-up trip to the bike shop with my poor bruised and battered biiicycle.
This morning we grabbed Tatty's boyfriend Graham and the three of us ventured out on a bit longer ride - took the 1 north past Davenport to a road that Tatty had heard about from Sue. We wandered down that road for a bit and then took a break before wandering back. 'Twas nie to get out and the weather is absolutely GORgeous today. I'm not excited about the amount of time I'm going to be spending in the car on such a beautiful day, but it's time to get back - too much to do, the real world awaits.
04.08.09 miles: 11.6 via bike
04.12.09 miles: 31.8 via bike
Our first ride was a short one; we mostly just wandered around S.Cruz for a little over an hour. It was still definitely nice to get out on the road though, especially on a bike as nice as Sues. It reminded me of how much I need to be thinking about saving a bit of my next couple of paychecks for a pre-ALC tune-up trip to the bike shop with my poor bruised and battered biiicycle.
This morning we grabbed Tatty's boyfriend Graham and the three of us ventured out on a bit longer ride - took the 1 north past Davenport to a road that Tatty had heard about from Sue. We wandered down that road for a bit and then took a break before wandering back. 'Twas nie to get out and the weather is absolutely GORgeous today. I'm not excited about the amount of time I'm going to be spending in the car on such a beautiful day, but it's time to get back - too much to do, the real world awaits.
04.08.09 miles: 11.6 via bike
04.12.09 miles: 31.8 via bike
Monday
04.06.09
Today sucked a little bit. I think I was still recovering (bad sign! bad sign!) from yesterday's ride, and as a result I was sluggish all morning and REALLY didn't want to get on the bike and go to work today. However, I forced myself to anyway, since I'm going to be in Santa Cruz for the larger half of this week and will not be able to bike much of anywhere. I left work a bit early so that I'd have time to drop off my backpack and wander down Riverside - I wanted to see if I could actually find Griffith Park. Mission accomplished.
totals: 24 miles biked (8.3 for commute and 16 for post-work Griffith Park discovery mission)
totals: 24 miles biked (8.3 for commute and 16 for post-work Griffith Park discovery mission)
Sunday
04.05.09
I AM POOPED. But if I don't document now I won't get around to it until three days from now and then I'll feel lame.
In short, I finally managed to plan and execute a 50+ mile ride in the Valley! I used Tyler's house and Michelle's house as my points to get to and then connected the dots - Sherman Oaks to Tujunga to Chatsworth and back to Sherman Oaks. Some significant climbing in the beginning and a nice happy downhill. Multiple water (and consequently urination) stops. Still managed to get myself a headache, lame.
Also, on Friday (04.03.09) I added a bit onto my end-of-day commute home, which brought my total ride-mileage to 19.5. I would have ridden much more this week but I was at security training in Pennsylvania (no I am not kidding). I feel like SOME of that journey has to count as cross-training though, we were punching the stuffin' out of some of those pillows! My pecs hurt for day afterward.
Totals:
04.03.09 - 19.5 miles via bike (4 in the am, the rest in the pm)
04.05.09 - 54.5 miles via bike (avg 14.2 mph, which is really good for me!)
In short, I finally managed to plan and execute a 50+ mile ride in the Valley! I used Tyler's house and Michelle's house as my points to get to and then connected the dots - Sherman Oaks to Tujunga to Chatsworth and back to Sherman Oaks. Some significant climbing in the beginning and a nice happy downhill. Multiple water (and consequently urination) stops. Still managed to get myself a headache, lame.
Also, on Friday (04.03.09) I added a bit onto my end-of-day commute home, which brought my total ride-mileage to 19.5. I would have ridden much more this week but I was at security training in Pennsylvania (no I am not kidding). I feel like SOME of that journey has to count as cross-training though, we were punching the stuffin' out of some of those pillows! My pecs hurt for day afterward.
Totals:
04.03.09 - 19.5 miles via bike (4 in the am, the rest in the pm)
04.05.09 - 54.5 miles via bike (avg 14.2 mph, which is really good for me!)
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