The good news is that the spinning classes had not only helped me stay up with the group, but also had reduced my heart rate to 10-20 bpm lower for the same level of effort as before I did them.
The San Clemente ride was from Del Mar, north on the coast, through the Camp Pendleton Marine base to San Clemente and back. It is a rolling 87 miles, through some amazing land. It was a hot day and the ride was long but fun.
I had been avoiding the whole issue of fund raising as I hate asking friend for money. Always have since the 10 mile sponsored walks in school! I came up with a creative way to raise the money. If I could sell ad space on my shorts - like bench ads - I could focus on asking corporations vs my friends. Well I think this is a great idea, but I don't think I have enough time left to pull it off this year. Maybe next year!
The last hour of this ride was tough, with ALOT of holiday traffic from Oceanside to Solana Beach and I just thought "suck it up and get it done". I rode with Effran a radio contestnat for the last 2 hrs of the ride and we looked out for each other for this strech.
It was Father's day so after finishing I hopped in the car happy to have ridden the longest ride of my life and headed off to our family thing.
It was only later that the reality - that this is one of the shorter days in the actual ride and I would have to do 6 more of these back to back - sank in.... so I pushed that negative voice to the back of my head and looked forward to next week!
The San Clemente ride was from Del Mar, north on the coast, through the Camp Pendleton Marine base to San Clemente and back. It is a rolling 87 miles, through some amazing land. It was a hot day and the ride was long but fun.
I had been avoiding the whole issue of fund raising as I hate asking friend for money. Always have since the 10 mile sponsored walks in school! I came up with a creative way to raise the money. If I could sell ad space on my shorts - like bench ads - I could focus on asking corporations vs my friends. Well I think this is a great idea, but I don't think I have enough time left to pull it off this year. Maybe next year!
The last hour of this ride was tough, with ALOT of holiday traffic from Oceanside to Solana Beach and I just thought "suck it up and get it done". I rode with Effran a radio contestnat for the last 2 hrs of the ride and we looked out for each other for this strech.
It was Father's day so after finishing I hopped in the car happy to have ridden the longest ride of my life and headed off to our family thing.
It was only later that the reality - that this is one of the shorter days in the actual ride and I would have to do 6 more of these back to back - sank in.... so I pushed that negative voice to the back of my head and looked forward to next week!
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