Another day, another Century

I sincerely hope this was the hardest weekend of my training program. When I woke up this morning after yesterday's shenanigans, I was still very stiff and sore. But no matter, I had a 6 hour ride on my program and so that's what I did.

Jeremy and I rode with Al and Dan to Masonville, pretty much the Buffalo Bicycle Classic ride. Only, when we got to Masonville, no one wanted to ride up the hill to Horsetooth Reservoir, so we turned around.

Here I am riding up the dam to Carter Lake. It doesn't seem that long ago that Carter Lake was a perfectly reasonable long ride on its own. From my house, it's a bit shy of 75 miles. Today, it was just a pit stop:



And the highlight of the ride, noxious weed eating goats on East Campus in Boulder:



We got back to Boulder and I was 8 miles short of a century. I convinced Jeremy to ride a little longer with me. We ran out of ideas that didn't involve going up hills and Jeremy bailed with 5 miles to go. Me, I rode a big loop around my subdivision. It's a lot easier to hit 100 miles from 92 than it is from 0.

So for how sore my legs were, this ride was went ok. I didn't have any pep on the hills, but I was practicing keeping my power from spiking anyway. I felt consistent the whole day and it could have been much worse. I topped the day off with a 35 minute run after the ride, that probably could have been skipped. And lemme tell you, I was 10 times more sore at the end of the day. When walking around in the afternoon, my legs would periodically give out. I couldn't bend my knees at all.

And I forgot to do weekly totals from 2 weeks ago:

Swim: 10644 yards
Bike: 169 miles
Run: 11.7 miles

Total: 17:25

And the totals from this week:

Swim: 9600 yards
Bike: 138 miles
Run: 25 miles
Walk: 7.5 miles

Total: 17:56