First off, a sincere thank you to everyone that has donated to my ride so far. I'm 1/3 of the way to my goal, and know that after a few fund raising events, I can make it to $1500.
Yesterday's ride was the best day I've ever had on a bike. I felt like I was peddling without a chain. 17mph up some inclines, and 18-19mph on the flats for a while. It was an awesome feeling. Another cool feeling is hitting 35mph+ going down hill. It's hard to believe the pro riders hit 60+ going down those "hills", but I guess that's what they get paid for.
By the time we got back to the car, we had ridden 41 miles at an average of 15mph which is pretty good, with the number of hills we had ridden. There isn't much flat road around Hoover Reservoir and Alum Creek Reservoir, and that makes for a tough ride that keeps me on my toes, but really fun, and it always feels great to get up that last real hill, where we can cool down the last 2 miles before we get to the car.
My philosophy of getting mad at the real hills worked again this week, as I got up both at the end of the ride better than I have on the previous 3 tries, so I'm going to keep doing it.
I just realized the titles of these first 2 posts have been songs. Lets see if I can keep that up for the rest of the posts before the ride on 8/29/09.
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