This year, my travel schedule is crazier than ever. On top of traveling to New Albany, Indiana for business much more, we added two vacation trips this summer. First, we went to Norway and we just arrived today in Costa Rica for 10 days. The travel schedule makes getting home to ride the Optibike much …
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Sprint Training Intervals have started!
In our conference calls this month with Coach Traci we learned about doing interval training and sprints. I wanted to start adding sprints and interval training to my workouts. This involves doing repeated periods of intense riding, as hard as you can go, (for 200 meters) followed with a period of recovery (about 1 min). …
Gotta love those trails!
Today I went with some other people from the BARC (Bicycling Advocates of Rancho Cordova) group on a bike ride to check out the Folsom city bike trails. There are over 32 miles of beautiful paved trails throughout the city of Folsom. This trail system is used by cyclists, walkers and joggers. All the trails …
Fourth of July Weekend – From First Place to Last Place
After returning to the good ol USA, I was able to take advantage of the great San Diego weather and my increased fitness. I had my record Optibike day of 54 miles in two rides. I finally discovered how much work it is to pedal on hills with the red light flashing! In addition, I …
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If you can?t stand the heat
This last week I?ve been back to commuting to work each day on my Optibike. The highs have been in the upper 90?s and even low 100?s. Mornings haven?t been too bad but we have had some especially hot days this last week so riding home at the end of the day has been exhilarating! I?ve …
Optibike rides again
After missing my Optibike while on vacation I was finally able to get back and ride it. So my wife and I decided we would go on a trip out to Folsom Lake for the day and ride along the west side of it. It was a beautiful day for a ride. As it turned …