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[bike] Catching up
Jun. 15th, 2007 08:16 amI don't seem to have downloaded anything off my GPS in ages. How odd.
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nuclearpolymer led a group in a loop from the Ipswich commuter rail. I didn't follow the group out to the beach; instead, I tried harder (but successfully) to make it back on the earlier train. Ipswich was also in the "remove all of the pavement to start from scratch" phase of road construction. My loop was 20 miles, not counting the trip to and from the commuter rail. Route map
Last weekend, amidst uncoordination and some unwillingness on my part to do a 60-mile ride, I went alone around Brookline and Newton. I am reminded that even the bits of south Brookline that don't look hilly on the map, are a little hilly. Also, I am reminded that I shouldn't take month-long breaks from biking, because it means I don't go far. This 24-mile trip was fine, but I was awfully sore the next day. Route map
My new bike also cleared 200 miles last weekend, and I'm wondering about the ever-elusive thousand-mile goal. If people are doing the Seacoast Century at the end of September, that's 15 weeks away; if I ride 10 miles after work twice a week, that's an additional 300 miles by then. And if the century and its preceding warmup rides are 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, and 100 miles, that's another 450. That leaves a lot of weekends to catch up 50 miles, so this all seems pretty doable.
Weekend plan is to redo this trip, from the Ayer commuter rail up the Nashua River Rail Trail then back to Somerville, on Sunday, leaving Porter by rail at 8:45 AM. Will hopefully survive 45 miles. Hopefully won't get rained on.
At the start of May,
nuclearpolymer led a group in a loop from the Ipswich commuter rail. I didn't follow the group out to the beach; instead, I tried harder (but successfully) to make it back on the earlier train. Ipswich was also in the "remove all of the pavement to start from scratch" phase of road construction. My loop was 20 miles, not counting the trip to and from the commuter rail. Route mapLast weekend, amidst uncoordination and some unwillingness on my part to do a 60-mile ride, I went alone around Brookline and Newton. I am reminded that even the bits of south Brookline that don't look hilly on the map, are a little hilly. Also, I am reminded that I shouldn't take month-long breaks from biking, because it means I don't go far. This 24-mile trip was fine, but I was awfully sore the next day. Route map
My new bike also cleared 200 miles last weekend, and I'm wondering about the ever-elusive thousand-mile goal. If people are doing the Seacoast Century at the end of September, that's 15 weeks away; if I ride 10 miles after work twice a week, that's an additional 300 miles by then. And if the century and its preceding warmup rides are 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, and 100 miles, that's another 450. That leaves a lot of weekends to catch up 50 miles, so this all seems pretty doable.
Weekend plan is to redo this trip, from the Ayer commuter rail up the Nashua River Rail Trail then back to Somerville, on Sunday, leaving Porter by rail at 8:45 AM. Will hopefully survive 45 miles. Hopefully won't get rained on.
