Week #42. The weather is changing!

Week #42 - 560 miles

The weather is getting colder but we still managed to have a nice ride on Saturday down to Paper Moon for a cinnamon roll. Lance and Randy joined me and we headed down to their festival. It has been fairly chilly for the last few days and the wind is back. Hopefully it will warm up a little this coming week.

Happy to get over 91,000 miles for the ride streak. Getting closer to that 100,000 mile mark. 

 

Week #41 Feeling recovered from Cannonball

 

Week #41 - 510 miles

I feel like I have recovered good from Cannonball. Got in 170+ miles on Saturday and the body actually felt pretty good all day. Rode easy but that was the plan to just get in the miles. It was also nice to get in over 90K miles during the ride streak this week. The big goal is try to get to 100K miles but who knows. Lots can happen in the next few months but it will be cool if it does happen.

Week #40 Well Cannonball didn't go quite as I expected!

 

Week #40 - 514 miles

September - 2552 miles

Well Cannonball 550 turned out to be hot and windy the first day. I thought I was eating and drinking enough along with managing my efforts. Turned out I would get really sick early in the evening and never really be able to recover from it. After throwing up a few times, I tried to take it easy through the night. I hoped that by the morning my stomach would settle down and I would be able to get back to eating some solid foods. I tired stopping for an hour around noon to rest, but still was having issues. Finally around 3:30pm on Saturday afternoon I decided to pull the plug after only going 290 miles. Not what I hope for but that is sometimes how it goes. I did managed to get in over 2500 miles for the month and I am up about 1450 miles over last year at this time.

Week #39 Ready for Cannonball 550!

 

Week #39 - 587 miles

Hopefully things are ready to go for Cannonball 550 starting on next Friday. It looks like the weather will cooperate but I am still planning on taking a few more layers than last year. I got caught in some foggy conditions and it got really cold. The plan is to take a couple naps if I need them. I probably can go a little faster if I take one or two 20 minute naps.

This week I managed to get over 20,000 miles for the 4th consecutive year. Not sure what the total will be come the end of December, but so far it has been a great year.

Week #38 - Feeling like things are coming together

Week #38 - 577 miles

This was my first week under 600 miles in over 5 weeks and I still got in three 100+ mile rides. My body is feeling pretty good even though there were a couple days that I was a little tired. Probably try to back things off a little bit more for the next couple weeks while getting ready for Cannonball. I was happy to get over 1360 days of consecutive riding and getting closer to that 100,000 mile mark which should happen next spring. Right now I am about 89K into it. This coming week will get me over the 20K mark for the year, which is about 700ish miles ahead of last year.

 

Week #37 Five weeks - 3,196 miles

Week #37 - 607 miles

This was my fifth week of 600+ miles. Also was able to get over 19,000 miles for the year, just over 900 miles at this time last year. Most of this prep is going into Cannonball 550 this year. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and we will have a fairly dry, windless year. Tough ask, but one can only hope! Weather and mechanicals are probably the two biggest issues in ultras and it's hard to predict them. No matter what happens, there will probably be some really cool roads down there.

 

Week #36 4th week of 600+ miles

 

Week #36 - 610

August - 2700 miles

This was the 4th week of 600+ miles: 673, 653, 652,& 610. Not my biggest 4 week but the first time I have had 4 consecutive 600 mile weeks. Also 11 rides of 100+ miles in the 4 weeks with LV being one of them. This should set me up good for Cannonball 550 at the end of the month. I will do one more longer ride next Saturday where I will leave a little after midnight and ride down to Marysville and watch the start of Pony Express and ride home. Hoping to get in 160+ miles that day.