Week of Mar 22 - Mar 28

Last weeks workouts
3/23 8 mile run
3/24 3 mile run / 8.78 mile ride (30 min easy)
3/26 5 mile run / 15.62 mile intervals (3/7)
3/27 3 mile run / 7.26 mile ride (30 min easy)

I'm gonna end up missing 100 mile run this month by a few miles, but it's ok. I'll get my goal by the end of the year provided nothing catastrophic happens. On a side note I just got the Crank Brothers Premium cleats to see if the lateral adjustment would have any affect on my knee pain. While it did help and eliminate the left side pain and new pain on the right side has popped up. I think I can fix that no problem. Anyways. That was last week, nothing special. Till next time.

First Metric Century

      Well I decided to go out for a ride on Saturday and ending up doing my first metric century. That's 62 miles for those who are wondering. It wasn't so bad. It was a little cold for me, 45F, with a NNE wind of 20mph+. Unfortunately for the first half of the leg the wind was at my back. It was nice doing an 18+mph average but it would only turn around to bite me. The return leg was completely horrible. A 20+ headwind is no fun when you're by yourself. At about mile 50 or so I had a nice leg cramp. Wasn't to horrible but it was bothersome enough. I added a few miles here and there to make sure I'd get in the mileage that I wanted. After a stop off at a local gas station to fuel up with some sugar I headed on home to finish my last few miles. It was great. Next 100 miles. Don't ask me when though. Well here's some stats, nothing special, I just started putting in saddle time 10 weeks ago.


63.2 total miles
3 hours 55 minutes 20 seconds (give or take)
16 mph average
~2600 calories burned

To put it in perspective about how strong the wind was I did the first 28 miles in 1:30.

you can see the route here.

Here's some pictures.




Sound only of the rear shifter

I'm an OCP, I think

      I've been battling the past few weeks with whether or not to keep the silver hardware on my bike. I really don't like it, but there's nothing wrong with it. Simply put, I just don't like it on my black bike. I've been thinking about replacing most of the hardware with red to go with the accent color but that seems more like a war and less like a battle so I figured why not just go with black. Easy enough. Removed the offending bolts and headed down to the local hardware store(had to go anyways for another home project). Matched up the bolts and I must say it looks a lot better. Not sure about the weight differences but I don't think there was much considering I replaced with the same quality bolts. All in all I'm happy with it. I've still got a lot of silver flashing but that will go in time. Anyways, here's some pictures.

Stem plate before:

Stem plate after:

Stem at steerer before:

Stem at steerer after:

Those wonderful fender eyelets before:

Fender eyelets after:

Till next time!

March is here

      Well another month down. Horrible weather right now. Cold. Luckily it was nice enough this past Friday that I managed to get out for a ride. 32 or so miles in about 1:40. Nice to get out on the road. Followed it up with a 5 mile run and actually set a nice pace. Things are looking up! Can't wait till the weather gets nice enough to get out everyday before the family gets up. Training is still going well. Picking my running mileage back and my bike mileage is starting to increase as well. I think I finally figured out my setup as well. Had a nice hour on the trainer without any pain. It's so nice not to hurt. I kinda forgot what that was like. Well till next time. See ya!