MFP Spitfires Cycling Group Week 7!!!

I pledged 30 last week and did 20. My pledge is 20 this week.

Has anybody got an idea of how many calories it is for a fly???

The amount i swallow when out cycling i thought maybe i should log them!! :grumble: :sick:

I really must learn to breathe through my nose :ohwell:

Oh well, is the correct attitude.

The flies just go along with the sport. If you're breathing through your nose you can't ride very hard, I know some people who tie a bandana around their face, but I just try to close my mouth when I see a swarm, but in spite of my best efforts I eat an occational fly. Oh well!

I am shooting for 100 again, and already have 83 for the week. My week ends on Saturday, so I have two more days. Should be easy.

I just rode out to Rocky Reach Dam and back, which was a very nice ride I had only previously ever done in the car. That added just under 27 miles to my running total, so now I am at 109.81 miles, and will almost certainly do 10 miles tomorrow (local loop trail I always ride with my son on weekends).

I was actually quite interested in how I would do, so I wore the HRM. There was quite a lot of wind, which kept messing me up as I would get a gust, gear down, then the wind would subside, I would ramp back up again only to have another gust come along and mess up my cadence again. In spite of everything though, I now know I can do that ride no big deal, and if I do it on a more mild day my stats should be better.

I still managed a 14.9mph overall average speed (can I just call that 15mph since it sounds more impressive?). It says my average heart rate was 121bpm, which was lower than I was really expecting, but I think the wind had a lot to do with that. I know after a while I stopped ramping back up in between gusts so I wasn't really working as hard all the time as I normally would.

Other interesting stats (interesting to me anyway). During that particular route I had 1327 ft of ascent. Since I ended up where I started I obviously had the same amount of descent as well Most of that was in one big hill I have to do up to my house in a two mile stretch.

Well, my week is over. I pledged 100 miles, I rode 119.2 miles. I am pledging 100 again next week. Hopefully I will get a good head start on it tomorrow.

Although it was in another thread, congrats to spyguy on his sub-200 weigh in. That is so significant. I have ten more pounds to go before I get there, and that could be a few weeks at the rate the weight has been coming off lately. I can't help but notice the less I have to lose, the harder it is getting to do it. When I started this process I would drop several pounds every week without really trying very hard. Now it takes real concerted effort to drop just 1 or 2 pounds in a week. Insane!