April 29 - May 5, 2007

Sunday 4/29/07
Day off, working on the house, still setting up the bike, finally got the cables routed, what a PITA

Monday 4/30/07
Bike to work:
1:18:21, 18.2, 144, 23.77

Bike home:
1:21:52, 17.3, 138, 23.68

Got and installed new seat Selle SMP Strike. Looks like it should be comfy, we'll see.

Tuesday 5/1/07
Bike to work:
1:31:16, 15.5 mph, 137 HR, 23.61 miles
very enjoyable ride, stopped at a bank on the way in so I dropped a few minutes. Took a different route than usual - instead of US 287, I took So Boulder Rd to 95th Street and came to Longmont on it. The seat feels pretty good. I need to fine tune it now, play with the bars a bit and change the seat angle. I am actually reasonably comfortable but I think I can do better. Hoping for no rain in the evening.

Bike home:
1:24:29, 16.8, 139, 23.7
A bit of rain, not too bad except the road was all wet and splashy. Found a pretty bad cut in my relatively new rear tire. Good thing I am riding with plastic liners. Bummer. Next set of tires will be Conti's gatorskins. Hate dumbasses dumping their beer bottles out of the window.

Wednesday 5/2/07
Day off, went to Mina's for lunch. Yummy.

Thursday 5/3/07
Bike to work:
1:28:03, 16.2, 140, 23.87
Lazy ride, didn't want to get out of bed. But it was worth it. A bit cold, wore my jacket.

Bike home:
1:30:09, 15.4, 132, 23.28
Took a different route home. Took 95th Street all the way down to StorageTek and came to Broomfield on Midway. Actually pretty nice way, less traffic.
Heavy sidewinds, didn't care for it so it was actually really nice that I wasn't on open road like Hwy 287, I was shielded a bit by trees and buildings.

Friday 5/4/07
Bike to work:
1:15:05, 18.8, 139, 23.52
Took yet a bit different route, took 112th all the way to Hwy 36 and then picked up old 120th Ave through Broomfield, came up on Midway, StorageTek and 95th street to Longmont. I think I like this road the best. The least traffic and not too many traffic lights. Left early (6:30), was pretty cold, long pants, jacket, full head gear (Buff and Skunk).
Shifted my shoe clips a little forward last night and raised the seat by about 1/2 inch. Following Andy Pruitt recipe found in my bike magazine. It felt pretty good.
Hit my knee on a tub corner last night and it responded with a nasty bruised bump that hurt in the morning so I debated for a while whether I should drive. Nah, it will probably get better if I move it a bit. We'll see tomorrow.

Bike home:
1:29:04, 16.0, 132, 23.83
Took yet another route home, went towards Boulder and came to 95th Street through Niwot. Not too bad.
It was cold, I wished I had heavier gloves and footsie warmers


Saturday 5/5/07
Got rolfed, day off from working out

Week summary:
4 days of bike commute, not too bad.
Spent about 12 hours on the bike, the new seat is working out pretty well, put in about 190 miles at average 137 beats per minute. Nice week.

Put on a new Continental Gatorskin in the back. I think I am going to put on the heavy duty tubes, too. My commute wheels are probably at least 2x as heavy as my race wheels, that should make it a bit easier on me at the next race.

We'll see if I can throw in some running next week.