Last post about the training rides, I had mentioned about the Mountain View to Portola Valley. The ride was on 11/17/2007 and 26.7 miles in all. It was a fun ride (except when climbing the hills) but I was glad that I made back to starting point within the designated ride speed. The lessons learned [...]
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I did my first official ALC training ride on 11/10. We started in Mt. View and went through Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Palo Alto and back. As I work in Sunnyvale I have driven through many of the streets we rode through but this was a new experience. Anyone interested in the route can take a [...]
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Last Saturday, we went on a renegade ALC training ride. Renegade because Russ didn’t have his TRL(training ride leader) training done & for the ride to be an official training ride you need at least 2 TRLs. A bit more on TRL later and now back to the ride. We started at the Union City [...]
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I did the longest ride yet on my bike, 16.8 miler to the dumbarton bridge from where I live. It was a good ride, mostly flat through the city of Fremont, Newark & to Coyote Hills Regional Park. On the way back, I stopped at Russ’s house. He is a ALC veteran and has written [...]
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Over the last week I reached (and passed) 100 mile mark on my ALC* training with over 70 of those coming in last 3 weeks, so the training is really picking up. For those interested in knowing more about ALC, please feel to free my ALC homepage (and donate some too )I also got clipless [...]
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Today I went for my longest ride yet, a grand distance of 10.2 miles. Not long by most standards but 2 mile improvement on my last max. The average speed was 12.1 mph and took a little over an hour including stops. More importantly I met the weekly training goal of 16.2. The other thing [...]
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I had my first flat since I started riding last month. I learned a couple about the Presta valve today. You need to open the little valve on the top to fill in air. This link tells a bit more (http://www.sheldonbrown.com/gloss_p.html#presta). In my previous riding life (more than 10 years ago) I always had the [...]
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