Dion’s Exercise and …

Made it out on the bike this morning, as Bronwen planned to entertain the boys, I too spooned at 5 and went out at 10 ! Much more civilized, well sort of !

We are having a big weather event here, now for all of those in the USA, it would be one where the local live vans are spread all over the area with reports being blown sideways, etc so they had something to fill up the local news. Here we don’t really do the local / national news thing, so I didn’t see one live truck anywhere !

However, I did see lots of rain, lots and lots of wind and I even got hit by some sea foam coming home along the beach. It wasn’t too cold, about 11C, but the local weather station along the beach was seeing 60 km/h winds with gusts hitting 75 km/h ! Luckily the ride route, generally follows a S shape so I had pretty much everyway wind, and it wasn’t too far until it changed a bit. The way out was mainly head wind / 2 o’clock so when I turned to head home, after an hour, I suddenly went from struggling along at about 20 km/h to idling along at 40 km/h ! Most of the way home was a breeze, though there was a bit side wind in some bits.

The worst of this was behind about the only three high rises on the beach front, where the gaps between them where the road goes round a roundabout were howling. The first wasn’t too bad but the second one nearly had me up onto the plantation ! A big lean and all was well, at the end of these the road turns toward the beach for about 20 m, as I turned I pretty much came to a complete stop with the wind. Pushing hard and hanging on tight, I made it to the next turn and zipped off but it was prety nasty !

This was the first really wet ride with my new mudguards on the winter bike and they were fabulous. No foutain of water on to the booties, just the odd spray and really just from the rain. My feet were still nice and warm and almost dry when I got home. I was a bit warm under the rain jacket but I’m a big believer in a bit warm then a bit cold ! The rain drops hurt a bit on my head but apart from that a good ride. Only saw one other person out though, funny about that !

Haven’t upload the data yet, looks like I’ve got a few bad read spikes, spinning at 195 in the pouring rain ! With heart really pumping, I think not ! Will clean it up when I do !

Updated: Uploaded the data and fixed up the errors, 165 Max sounds much better the 195 !

Workout:

• Type: Cycle
• Date: 06/27/2007
• Time: 10:16:00
• Total Time: 1:49:36.00
• Average Heart rate: 145
• Max Heart rate: 165
• Calories: 1285
• Distance: 44.7 km
• Average Speed: 24.47 kmph
• Max Speed: 41.7 kmph
• Ascent: 230 m
• Descent: 171 m
• Average Cadence: 80
• Max Cadence: 106