Road to Wildflower Pt. 3
Today was the first day out on the bike with the new wheels. They are noticeably stiffer than what came stock with the bike, they spin longer, and the I can go faster than 25 mph without them wobbling. I put in 22 miles today in about 1.5 hours. The first hour was just easy spinning and I covered the same distance back plus a hill in about half an hour of pretty hard riding.
It was mostly serious cyclists out on Foothill expressway today. I got passed by 4 on the way back and I passed nobody. I’m not used to that. Occasionally on the road I’ll get passed but not passing anybody else and being passed by that many people is kind of a swift kick to the ego. I guess all the serious people decided to play locally today and all the sl0w people, like myself, decided to stay in out of the cold. Guess that’s why they are fast and we are slow.
It’s raining pretty hard out right now and I’ve a 5K to do tomorrow morning. Local, put on by Sports Basement. It should be fun. Running in the rain is usually a delight. So long as it isn’t too cold. Gotta take a hot shower before hand to get the muscles loosened up. I’m debating my race strategy. Not so much the strategy for the race. I’ not good enough to win, but my strategy for how the race will fit in to my training. One half of me wants to actually go fast and see if I can complete it in 20 mins. The other half is afraid that pushing that hard with cause injury. It’s a tough one. I have better form when I run hard which means injury is less likely. But running hard to soon will leave me tired near the end which means bad form and a higher chance of shin splits or a banged up knee. We’ll see how it goes. I haven’t run this week so I may be to tight to turn it on anyway. Will report in with my time tomorrow night.