Great bike riding, better announcing.
“Oh my god, stay on your bike, Danny.”
“Whaaat the hell? How does Danny sit down with balls that big?!?”
…and track fans get the NBC goon squad. Thanks.
WIth my ankle sprained, I have taken to the bike. And with my new Garmin, I have some pretty pictures to accompany my ride! Not how I originally planned on testing out my new toy, but some exercise stats are better than no stats.
A day’s work
After watching an old episode of Top Gear where they entered a 24 hour car race, and thinking back on my experiences running ~24 hour running relays, I wonder if I, alone, could ride a bike for 24 hours. And if so, how far. I’d take short breaks to empty myself, but I’d try and eat as much as possible on the go. No sleeping.
The good thing is that I really don’t have a safe way to test that, so I probably won’t find out. If I did, though, might be a fun way to spend a day. I’ll bet with a little training I could do it, but my ass would super duper sore the next day.
Think I could? Should I try somehow?
Since I can’t run, I’ve decided to start riding my bike more over the next couple weeks. This is the route on which I rode over the weekend. I recently discovered Google Earth’s elevation profile feature, too, which, I think, illustrates pretty well the drawbacks of riding around foothills. With those nasty peaks (combined with my not having ridden in a long time), my quads have never felt so jellyish at the end of a ride.
Even though she’s talking about a cycling crash, I still have the same stopwatch paranoia:
The first thing I did when I hit the ground was turn off my stopwatch — I did not want accident time to count toward our riding time.
The rest of the article is pretty good. Timely as heck, too, since I am off the running shoes for a bit with a stress reaction, and considering starting to bike a bit more. My bike might see its first rain in its life!
