Week 12 and counting down....Well, I never would have expected this, BUT I think I/we are getting ADDICTED to riding the bike. This week we rode 4 days in a row and had to talk ourselves into taking a day off! We woke up day 5 and had to really convince ourselves that it would be better not to ride that day. Otherwise our mileage would've increased too much for the week. We have to be careful not to get up to the target mileage too soon. This is crazy - I never would've expected this. But it's okay because I am more certain everyday that we will do this ride and the way we're going now, we'll do it fairly strong. Rick is starting to talk about throwing in a time trial in early September, just to add to the fun of it all (????!!!!!). We'll see....
Guest riders this week: Mark Garko from Plumosa Road/Quartzsite road with us one day. He spends the summer up here at Flagstaff. Also Dennis and Lindsey Morris stopped by on their way to San Diego and road with us 2 days. One of these days was July 4/Rick's birthday and we did 59 miles for his age. Everybody called to wish him Happy Birthday while the phone was in the bike bag.
Dennis says he thinks we're peaking too early. He's pretty smart about these things since he's done so many long rides. Rick says he'd rather be over trained physically so all we have to worry about is failure from a mental standpoint.
Bicycle maintenance this week: Rick replaced the bearings in both rear wheels we carry; cleaned the chains, chain ring, cog sets. He found some tires he didn't know he had. We also fixed a flat for a nice lady stranded on our road (Diane Goodyear from Tucson; she wants to do El Tour de Tucson this year; we advised her she should carry a patch kit and learn how to change a flat!)
Total mileage for this week: 311.23, 18.15 hours riding time; 17.15 mph avg. speed
Longest ride: 61.5 miles
Fastest ride: 40 miles in 2:08, 18.75 mph avg. (Our 40 mile ride has about 1400' of climbing in it.)
We're still working on our weight loss; however, as I write this we are contemplating going out in search of beer....gotta carbo-load for tomorrow!!
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