Bee Cave ride
Wednesday Aug 22, 2007
I'm a member of a summer cycling group with Rogue Training Systems. We started in mid July and will finish in mid October. The goal is to work up to riding a century (100 miles).
On Sunday August 19, we rode from Bee Cave to north Austin to downtown Austin and back, 40 miles. I hadn't ridden 40 miles in a single day in at least a couple of decades. I uploaded my Forerunner 305 (GPS) data to MotionBased. While my motion time was 2:58, for a 13.5 mile per hour average, I also had 31 minutes of rest time.
This coming Sunday, we'll be riding the Krause Kruse out of Krause Springs for 4 to 4.5 hours. At 13.5 miles per hour, I can probably just do the 60 mile loop. But there will be an opportunity to bail out and do a 43 mile loop instead, if things aren't going well. So I'll be playing this one "by ear" as they say.
