Training Log Archive: runninghils

Easy spin around the block in my new pants to try them out and check the bike. All is good on the bike. One last chain lube and a wipe down... and it's in the car to go tomorrow.

Ran out to the track to do a last minute calibration check on my foot pod. It should have been a pace count calibration check instead... since when I got home I read my e-mail and saw a note from my teammate copying the "no foot pods allowed" statement from the gear list. How did I miss this? D'oh! I've never seen a foot pod disallowed - only GPS stuff. Shoot.

Nice easy City Forest cruise. Cool. Saw a couple mountain bikers I knew out on the trail. There were actually some mosquitos out tonight even though I saw the mosquito control truck drive in Tuesday after my ride. Yeah, they spray for mosquitos in City Forest.

C • Bringing Bun Huggers to Untamed 4

Took a nice easy spin around City Forest. Did a comparison of Strava to bike computer. The twistiness of these trails led to strava shorting the ride by 1.7 miles. Wow! Still, I looked at the end and I had 3 new QOMs. Seriously? How when I was going so slow? Oh, I'm the only woman to do them. Really nice day to be out riding and I really enjoyed myself.

C • Highland is similar 2

With Expedition Pack +3L water+ other stuff.
One last, shorter, easier brick today before UNE. Rode usual route in West Branch on the hilly roads, but didn't really attack the hills. Also, took a veer off on one of them to see what was at the end of the dead end. It was a 2-track, but I'm not sure if it was private property or if I could go on it. I think maybe public. Everyone marks their private property pretty extensively up there.

BEAUTIFUL day for a ride. Little greenish yellow flowers smelled great. Sunny, perfect temperature. <3

With Expedition pack +3L water and some other stuff. Used this time to play with the watch, which was acting weird and kept going to "PC Interface." Nope, I'm out running in the woods. I also got the pack adjustment dialed in. Wasn't really trying to go that hard, but didn't go too far as this is part of the taper time.

After the run, set out to check out the two track around Ogemaw Hills hoping that I could figure out a good semi-sandy 2-track route. Unfortunately, this was a fail. The first road was actually just about right - small patches of sand that required some maneuvering, but rideable. Then, when it turned to the north, it turned into deep, unrideable sand going uphill for a long distance. I turned around and then, when I saw the ORV trail, I decided to check that out. Decent in places, but not at all suited to a mountain bike. Went back to the main two track, hopped on single track for a bit, and then finished off on the road to the north just checking that out. Nice rollers, but nothing earth-shattering.