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LSD - Long Slow Distance

Gear for a cold ride

This is the gear I put on for a ride this morning with Shuan. View the photo page to see the notes for the image. For a cold school day in January I put an impressive amount of cycling in. Shaun and I rode outside in the morning along the clear creek trail. There was a few sketchy snow/ice sections, but was a great ride. Even with my double gloves my fingers were reqesting a retreat home for the first hour. Even with my double socks my feet cried to to get home for the last 40 minutes. My stomach joined in the complaing with about 15 minutes left, saying a bowl of ceral wasn’t enough for the trek.

Roller Party!
After my classes, I joined the team for a rollers/trainer party. In the Student Rec Center the team meets up on Tuesday and Thursdays to ride indoors and watch a movie. Class keeps me from the Tuesday sessions, but Thursdays have been working out. Tonight there were about 9 of us, watching Super Bad.

A good day of winter cycling. Now for the number lovers, a table of data concerning today’s rides.

Ride Morning Evening
Calories 1662 1192
Time 1hr 52m 1hr 25m
Avg Heart Rate 144bpm 140bpm

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2 Responses to “LSD - Long Slow Distance”

  1. Steven Vance Says:
    January 25th, 2008 at Jan 25, 08 | 7:30 am

    I had my Pearl Izumi lobster gloves stolen while I was doing field work for my job with ChicagoDOT Bike Program.

    I promptly ordered Craft full-finger gloves from TriathleteSports (in Maine, I believe), but those were lost in transit by Fedex. It took almost a month to get a credit for those and in the meantime my fingers suffered. I’ve only done field work once since losing the lobsters and on a warmer day. Thankfully my commute to work is only 3 miles so my fingers get cold at just the last few blocks.

    I now just ordered Descente Wombat gloves (from Performance, in case I want to return them) and some neoprene booties (also from Performance, in case I bought the wrong size).

    We still have several weeks of below 40 degrees F here, just like I’m sure you do there.

  2. matt Says:
    January 27th, 2008 at Jan 27, 08 | 2:08 am

    Thanks for the post Steven-

    I can see booties, gloves, and hat in my near future.

    Can I ask for some more photo posting action from you Vance?

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