This morning's ride was full of interactions with people, which is weird for me - usually when I'm biking people tend to leave me alone.
I was planning on leaving the house around 8 am and doing a three hour-ish ride before heading to a meeting I had in Malibu, but I woke up feeling awkwardly nauseous and had to sit around for an hour and a half and drink tea and eat toast before I felt like I could actually GO anywhere. I ended up heading toward Griffith Park. About 5 miles in, I was passed by an old guy who then proceeded to bike JUST a little slower than my pace. I stayed behind him 'cause I didn't want to leapfrog all the way to G.Park, and eventually we started talking. He's 72, his name is Richard, and he's really nice! He gave me the card for a bike shop he frequents and he showed me a new bike path that I swear I've passed fourteen times and never even noticed! He was meeting up with some friends of his so we split ways. On my way home I got stopped by a dude in a car who was looking for some store (and hadn't gotten te address before leaving his house? Weirdo.) Anyway. Lots of interactions.
Total: 24.5 miles via bike
Tuesday
Monday
05.04.09
Quick post before bedtime: did a short ride before heading to work today and also did the bike-to-work commute, so ended with a 24-mile day - if only I could get myself to do that + 10 miles every day this week, I'd at least be almost at where I need to be mileage-wise. I'm nowhere near where I need to be endurance-wise, but life will go on.
The ride is less than a month away, which is TOTALLY surreal. Mostly just exciting though - California coast and best friends, here I come!
total: 24 mils via bike (15 m + an almost immediate 4ish m to work + the 4ish m return home ride at 6pm)
The ride is less than a month away, which is TOTALLY surreal. Mostly just exciting though - California coast and best friends, here I come!
total: 24 mils via bike (15 m + an almost immediate 4ish m to work + the 4ish m return home ride at 6pm)
Sunday
05.03.09
Gah. I am such a failure at getting on my bike this last week. I hang my head in shame.
Long story short I was going to go on a bike ride but roommate plans changed and I ended up at Costco for an hour smack dab in the middle of when I would have been out on the road. Biking failure.
I did however manage to get out on a run this afternoon. When Matt was here on Friday we discovered a tunnel off of Ethel that runs under the 101 to the neighborhood area on the other side, so I ran through there (usually I head the other way, further into the valley).
Total: 4.31 miles via my own two feet (in almost exactly 50 minutes - I am SUCH a slow runner)
Long story short I was going to go on a bike ride but roommate plans changed and I ended up at Costco for an hour smack dab in the middle of when I would have been out on the road. Biking failure.
I did however manage to get out on a run this afternoon. When Matt was here on Friday we discovered a tunnel off of Ethel that runs under the 101 to the neighborhood area on the other side, so I ran through there (usually I head the other way, further into the valley).
Total: 4.31 miles via my own two feet (in almost exactly 50 minutes - I am SUCH a slow runner)
Thursday
technically 04.30.09
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
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
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)
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