Thursday, January 17, 2013

Weather challenges...

So with all good intentions to go to the gym yesterday, my body just crashed. I thought maybe I was getting sick, but after a knap in the late afternoon I still felt tired and had flu-like symptons all evening. So today I woke up, shoveled 4" of snow off our guests cars in the lot. By 11:00 a.m. the snow was all gone and I went for a ride at 1:30 p.m. My intention was to do 30 miles to make up for yesterday. With all good intentions I headed south on the Natchez Trace and felt good. The wind was tricky as it was partly in my face heading South and partly in my face heading back north.There were strong gusts most of the ride and definately hit me hard on the return ride. I need to get more advice on the fueling (nutrition) for riding, because I definately hit a wall around mile 18. Got back to the starting point and decided to try and put in more miles heading north on a side trail. As I stoped at a junction to allow cars to pass guess what? Yep, I did it again. Forgot to step out of my shoe clips and fell sideways as I stopped. No injuries, just hurt my pride! Anyway managed to do 22.9 miles in 2 hours. Elevations were 1122ft and I burned 661 calories. With stops I averaged 11.5 mph. Temp rose to 57 degrees today but still was pretty chilly on the ride. More Friday...