By dougfoot, on July 30th, 2006
My trike is showing it’s age - over four years of road riding, pits, scratches and chips are showing on the powder coat, I may just have the trike’s powder coat redone, I’m also debating on additional changes for the trike: new chainrings or a new rear triangle. I’ve been using a larger chainring now, and highly enjoy it [...]
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By dougfoot, on July 30th, 2006
I need to buy stock in battery companies – the one downside with wireless monitors is that they use up quite a few batteries. Sure, the documentation says I should get around 2000 hours of use out of a set of batteries, it seems quite a few hours less than that. You never know how old [...]
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By dougfoot, on July 24th, 2006
Tonight I rode 28 miles – very hot and windy! Tomorrow, I’ll run for 30 minutes or about 1.5 miles (no Speedy Gonzales here!) It’ll be interesting to see what changes take place once I “mix it up” with my training. I remember in high school and my Air Force days, running and cycling where part [...]
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By dougfoot, on July 19th, 2006
This year’s Seattle to Portland took alot out of me, I’ve been taking it easy these past few days. The weather this weekend is supposed to be in the 90-100f range, perhaps I’ll start riding next week. Taking time off from riding is a good thing. This give me an opportunity to tune the trike, [...]
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By dougfoot, on July 16th, 2006
Friday was my travel day, riding up to Seattle with my wife. I kept hydrated most of the day drinking water and Vault. We met up with our group around 4:00pm and went out to dinner at an Italian resturant, I had an Italian beef sandwitch – very good! Bedtime came quickly at 7:00pm. My [...]
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