knee is now swollen again.

i attended the 12hrs of pat's peak on saturday. signed up for the 12hr solo category. had my buckets packed with gear and nutrition. set up camp with some folks from the ridemonkey board. I was on the cover of the local paper on race day in a pic taken by splat last year of me coming into the finish!

bike was set up 32X21 with my new crossmarks. creaked like crazy, i lube the ebb halfway through the day, and that didn't help at all, i think now it might be the pedals, or could be the bb. i used a water bottle and carried tools in my jersey which i liked a lot not having to have a camelback on all day. and since the laps were 45mins and i passed my pit every lap i was able to refresh my bottle each lap and get a gel. i think i overdrank on the first couple of laps, and at the end of lap 3 had a mental block. kinda got the blahs and finally just got up and went out again, then i was good til my second to last lap. i just wasn't having much fun. the loop is hard, no easy parts, straight up, then straight down, which isn't too relaxing rigid. my upper arms and legs started cramping, and i started to worry about getting careless. so i finished up my 8th lap and called it a day after 8hours of riding.

totals
8 laps
8+hrs total time before i stopped.
@6-7hrs of actual on the bike time.
sore legs and back even 2days later
sore butt


http://www.patspeak.com/summer/bike_results.php

15th out of 16 finishers!

did another 1:45 or so today, tried to ride some of the hills in a high gear so i could stand and grind up em. felt pretty good.

rode the rollers last night for 45 mins, 5hard, 5easy. i'm going to try and do the pat's peak 12hr solo this saturday.

1:42 did my out and back plus fruit st and a loop in the toll house hood and back 28+miles. hit 41+mph on thhe downhill, finally just coasted but got down into a tuck and was definitely faster than last time pedalling, but not in a tight tuck. makes ya wonder how fast a group could do my laps.

did a lollipop loop on tuesday, i found out that it was a bird protecting it's nest that was attacking me because it did it again on monday, so i did the loop to avoid that part of 135.
no ride today due to rain.

broke 1,000 miles on my road bike today! of course that doesn't include the first month i had it, but it does include a whole lot of miles on the rollers. but i'll take it. did a little under 2hrs today.