Back In Town

What a morning.   I got up early and made a yummy breakfast of poaced eggs and asparagus for Kerrie and me.  With a little trepidation, I took off on my 100k loop.  I pushed it pretty hard from the get-go trying to hold my heart rate up in the 160's as much as possible. 

The weather was marvelous with hardly any wind.  Sunny but not hot, just beautiful.  I managed to maintain the push right to the end of the ride, averaging just over 30kph.  A bit slow but not bad considering how little time I've spent on the bike lately.  I'm going to follow it up with a real hard, flat out, 45km tomorrow.  That will really shake things down.

The view near Sugarloaf Creek

I have the most fantastic new toy! The powers that be at work decided they simply had to have iPhones.  So naturally I had to have one so I'd be able to support them.  I've downloaded a little app called Trail Guru.  You simply turn it on and it records my movement over time using the built in GPS.  When I finish, I upload the data to the internet and it's automatically mapped on Google Maps and produces charts of elevation and spped relative to time.  The only drama at present is that it sucks the batteries pretty quickly.  I ran out of batteries in the phone at about 2 and a half hours into the ride.   Track ID#1KP5 (Road Biking) ">Here's a link to the part of the ride I got in before the batteries ran down.  It's pretty cool.

I'm off to shower now to start making myself beautiful for Patti's concert tonight.

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