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Wednesday Aug 22, 2007

Bee Cave ride

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.

Posted at 11:35AM Aug 22, 2007 by Dave Marquardt in Bicycling  | 

Wednesday Jan 03, 2007

Still running

I haven't blogged about running for a while, maybe because it's just taken up a routine part of my life, not an all consuming passion like it is when I'm doing marathon training. I'm just training for a half marathon this winter, and I have to say I like running fewer miles and not devoting so much time, particularly on weekends, to running.

Since I decided not to do a marathon this winter, that knocked me out of even starting the Austin Distance Challenge right away. So I've only felt compelled to run one race, the IBM Uptown Classic 10K back in early October. I contemplated others, but due to conflicts or just not being interested, I haven't done any.

I was originally training for the AT&T Austin Half Marathon on February 18, 2007, but due to yet another Cub Scout conflict, I'm going to run the 3M Half Marathon on January 28. I wanted to run both, but I made a vow not to let my running get in the way of Cub Scouts or family activities this winter, and have done well with it.

Finally, I was happy to see fellow runner and Sun blogger Scott has taken up running again. Keep it up Scott!

Posted at 12:57PM Jan 03, 2007 by Dave Marquardt in Running  | 

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