By dougfoot, on August 30th, 2010

After taking 4 days off from riding last week, tonight’s training ride went pretty well. Rode intervals to PodRunner’s recent podcast “Activator”, 159 bpm, 80 rpm, 60 minutes. I started out with a 4 minute warmup, then 1 minute high intensity, then 4 minutes low intensity. Unlike the last time I did this type of interval, I was [...]
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By dougfoot, on August 17th, 2010

Today the temperature was in the low 90′s at 5:00pm, quite warm for a ride. I choose a lower bpm podcast from PodRunner called “Run in the Sun”, 138 bpm, 69 rpm, 60 minutes. I’ll admit the the added humidity today made the ride a little harder than usual – I wanted to give up at 45 [...]
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By dougfoot, on August 12th, 2010
…Multi-Use Paths I think were designed by a crazy person. Why? mixing vehicular traffic with pedestrians is a crazy idea. Take a look at this post at ‘bentrideronline. I feel for the OP. It is one reason I would rather take my chances on the road. On the road there are laws to be followed, little erratic random [...]
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By dougfoot, on July 27th, 2010

Dinner tasted especially good tonight – Stroganoff with blueberry cobler for dessert! Must be the fact that I finished an hour ride! Another great podcast from PodRunner, “Chants Meeting”, 149 bpm, 75 rpm. I know that even if I don’t feel like riding, I should at least get seat time. My riding felt that way today – [...]
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By dougfoot, on July 24th, 2010

Last night I rode to a new podcast called “Ballistic”, 149 bpm, 75 rpm. This podcast is just under 55 miniutes, and moves you along quite well… I attempted to do some intervals, however, being that this is only my 4th ride in a long while, I didn’t want to push it too hard. Felt good [...]
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