Geek Habitat

We left for Corpus Christi, Texas, midday Friday along with much of the Moore and LaRocque clans (including Jason and his daughter Jillian from the Dallas area). Destination: the 5th annual Conquer the Coast bicycle ride comprised of a 25-mile course, a 65-mile course and a time trial course. Justin and brother-in-law David did the 65-mile course, while Justin’s father, Jack, brother Jason, and nephew Tanner did the 25-mile course. Sara and I were among those there simply as spectators and moral support for our riders. Sara got to spend some good quality time with her cousins Kendal and Jillian, and a good time was had by all.

Don’t get excited, it’s just a new bike ride showing up on my Build a Fitter Geek RSS feed, documenting the 13+ mile road bike ride I did with Justin and his father this morning. Feel good, although I am fighting a nasty caffeine withdrawal headache. Haven’t had any caffeine or Dr Pepper since around 2 PM Thursday.

From Justin:

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Took the plunge and traded a 1/2-ton pickup truck for a 30lb mountain bike for the commute to work this morning.

It was quite the experience, here’s my blog post:
Bike Geek: A carbon-free day…

When it was all said and done, with 26 miles or so of riding, I saved two gallons of gas and burned 1500 calories instead.

Not bad!
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Just had to brag on him. Like everything that involves other people, he has to be a very attentive rider.

Whimper after too long out of the saddle of my road bike?

I am sore, but I am so glad I got off my fat arse and rode with Justin and brother-in-law, David, today.

GPS track, and my heartrate & cadence data for today’s ride

According to MotionBased.com, where I log all my outdoor rides, it has been two MONTHS since my last ride–how in the hell did that happen? I did some indoor training rides since then, but they don’t show up on MotionBased.com to help my “motivation through publication” since their site is a little crippled in that it won’t log rides that lack a GPS track, even if they have cadence (and thus speed + distance) and heart rate data.

It’s been awhile since I’ve been on the bike, either outdoors (see MotionBased log) or indoors (my last bike trainer ride was on Feb. 28–sigh.)

I wanted to make this at least 10 miles but it’d been too long off the bike and the kiddo had passed out in an uncomfortable position in her bouncer, so I bailed off the trainer at 8.15 miles. The only goal I did achieve was biking at least 20 minutes to get some cardio benefit.

I rode 14.89 miles with Justin and his BIL, David, this afternoon, and am feeling great. See the ride’s stats from my Garmin Forerunner 305+heartrate strap at http://tinyurl.com/2xaywq; you can compare my heartrate to Justin’s (his stats, here). He’s in far better cardiovascular shape than I am right now.