Muse back!
December 31, 2007 / Monday
Pedaling The Holidays Away
Went for my first road ride since Thanksgiving day, and boy did I need it! Thanks to a birthday double cold and way too much holiday food, I've become a winter fatty. How do I know? My pants feel tight. My shoes do too. Oof.
We made an adjustment to my bike after that last ride. Namely, we flipped the stem over, which dropped the handlebars a good couple (or more) inches. Feels great, despite the fact that the front wheel now points slightly right. Woops. I'll have to remember to fix that.
The first 30 minutes sucked. I wasn't even going that fast on flat ground and my heart rate was somewhere in the mid 180's. I attribute that to clogged arteries. Eventually, my arteries cleared (or maybe I warmed up), dropped the heart rate, and picked up the speed. Then, as neared the turnaround point (a.k.a. the farthest distance from home) and my knees started aching.
Curse you, achy knees! Lame. Totally lame! Even lamer, I'm already on an 800 mg/day regimen of naproxen for my achy wrists. This shouldn't have hurt! Bah!
Still, I managed to make it home. 32.1 miles. Not a bad return from the land of sickie lardballs.
December 31, 2007 04:21 PM | Road