Day 73 Ride (10/4/2006)

Staged at the Dennys in Orange between the 57 and 5 freeways: 3000 W. Chapman Ave. Orange, CA 92868 Rode down to the beach and back (round trip: 24 miles)!!! Have an amazing sense of accomplishment in doing this ride, stopping my bike on the edge of the sand, seeing, smelling, and hearing the waves break. Cycling mentor really pushed me at times, as we tickled 22 miles per hour for a few hundred meters, by far the fastest speed I've done on flat road. My sustainable speed was more like 15-16mph (telemetry is skewed a bit by various slowdowns for road obstacles, bridge crossings, etc). Last few miles of the return were a bit painful as I was on the edge of cramping up in my right ankle. Still trying to figure out if this is fluids or lactic acid. Nice negative split on the time, even though my fastest flat speeds were definitely on the outbound ride. My perception was that the ride was fairly flat and downhill a bit on the outbound ride, if any grade at all. Whew, the underpasses were starting to get a bit painful towards the end (well, the climb portions of them anyway). I imagine that's where I hit a 170 heartrate. Ah, there was one place which was less like an underpass and more like downhill, 100m of flat, then an uphill, plenty of time to keep me from maintaining enough downhill speed to carry me up. Proud that I held the cadence despite sometimes using my highest gear on the outbound ride and general fatigue on the return. Once again, yay for me! 08:13 Exe Time: 1:38:04 Mean HR: 142 Max HR: 170 HR Zone: 138-151 In Zone: 22:43 Above Zone: 31:30 Below Zone: 43:51 Kcal: 1044 Distance: 24.1 miles Mean Speed 14.7 mph Max Speed: 24.1 mph Mean Cad: 88 Max Cad: 105 Ride Time: 1:38:01 Outbound Time: 50:31 Mean HR: 132 Max HR: 166 Mean Speed: 14.2 mph Mean Cad: 89 Return Time: 47:33 Mean HR: 152 Max HR: 170 Mean Speed: 15.2 mph Mean Cad: 87

Excellent job, John! I like your ride write-up as well as the ride specs. What kind of cyclometer/heart rate monitor are you using?Keep up the great work and come on over to the men's board for more exercise/biking chat.

Much appreciated. I do cruise the men's board (there's got to be a better way to say that!), but I wanted to keep it topical, you know? Cycling is gender-neutral, and the Men's board doesn't quite seem the appropriate place to discuss it.