Crazy busy day at work, good ride at home

[ianuk]

Well, work was crazy. I had lots of email, back to back meetings and other odd things but it was good and I got things done but my brain turned off at 330pm. So I headed home and was trying to motivate myself to ride when I get home. Well, when I arrived mel was cleaning his bike chain and told me to get changed and get a shake and come out to ride. We did an almost 20 mile route through the bike path to broadway and then home by way of kolb. We had one section where another biker drafted in with mel while I was the wind break. I pedaled hard the whole ride and only had issues when traffic on kolb got busy and it was getting too dark. But we averaged 15.3mph which was nice. I need to find my blinkey and get the head light working on my bike though for any other rides this week. I almost got hit by someone turning from the center lane but I rolled good on my dodge. Course a blinkey and a light would not have helped in that case...which is why I wear hot pink and orange.

Need to work out the timing of heading to the expo and driving the route this week. Hopefully that will come together today. Got home from the ride and changed into comfy clothes and had dinner and watched NCIS and knit. I have more to go on the scarf than I thought...mel wants it really long. I think I need to stop working on it for a while and work a few of the presents that have to be shipped. Plus I have to work on the ornaments for twila...due Dec 1. yeah, I know what I need to be working on thursday through the weekend. We shall see.

well, time to continue some data mining and getting things going on the engineering change front. All good.

Comments

[american-knight.livejournal.com]

Awesome that you rode. Did you just have a shake or did you do some slow-carbs too?

[raventhourne.livejournal.com]

Just a shake before hand. I'd had yogurt with bannanas about an hour before that. So I was feeling pretty good.

[american-knight.livejournal.com]

How was your energy through the ride?

[american-knight.livejournal.com]

Reason I ask is I have eating 3/4 cup of oatmeal before going on my rides. This weekend I intend to get a lot of calories in before we go out for the TdT. I use a heartrate monitor and have noticed my caloric burn is almost at 1k after when riding over an hour.

[raventhourne.livejournal.com]

I felt good until the end when it was dark and I slowed down cause I was thinking too much. I could have pushed harder there and I know it. I was the point for almost all of the ride so I was burning good. I've been STARVING today but have been doing good on my snacks (yogurt and fruit) and will have lunch soon.

I've got non melty luna bars (oats and cranberry) for the ride but I plan on shake, oatmeal, eggs before we go on Saturday.

[american-knight.livejournal.com]

Nice. Glad to see you have got it planned or Sat. I am actually glad for the 1030am start time. Means I can down a bunch of water and food before hand.