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Jeff and I are riding tomorrow at 10, if anyone wants to meet up. Either W&OD or Mt Vernon

I am going to take both of their spots, even if I have to buy my own house down there for training.

updated Megatron schematic. If you manage to figure out what the stax mafia is doing, please let us know. We are having a hard time keeping track of it all

The Kirk certainly comes fully loaded.

The Suunto is telling me to take 97 hours off after that ride for recovery.

Nice rides, everyone! And good to see Dan rocking the Road Holland shirt. I can promise you it was absurdly hot and humid out. Mid 90s and so freaking steamy, my glasses were fogged up most of the ride today, even in the sunshine. Drove home in an all out thunderstorm. You guys are all going to kick my ass when you come to Sebring first weekend in December. When I said I can't do hills, what I should have said was I am really really pathetic on even our version of hills. I huff and puff, and my heart rate soars up insanely and it takes me a lot of time to recover. If there are more than a few hill in a row, I bonk. That's what happened yesterday. I know the heat didn't help, but I'm really really bad. I suppose I could do bridge repeats, but I don't even know if that would help. On the good front, my leg muscles are a bit tight/stiff, but that's the extent of any damage from this weekend, which I'm attributing to how great my bike fits. Also, I did learn two things: 1) I can do miles, even if not well, and 2) I'm going to piss off my co-worker and cancel my participation in the Smart Ride this year. 63 miles = fun. 163 miles = not so much fun. Maybe in another year, but I don't feel strong enough yet to have that distance be enjoyable, and I don't want the pressure of training for something I don't want to do. I have enough stress in my life. I need cycling to remain fun. Anyone want to go for a short ride this weekend?

Had a great ride with Dan today. Nice ride with just over 500 feet of elevation gain over the 21 miles. Averaged 15.7 MPH for the ride which is a big improvement for Dan after being back on the bike for such a short period. He's riding over 30 miles a week now. We are developing a pretty decent team of riders up here. Really shouldn't have stopped for lunch, it was crap BBQ and made the end of the ride more work than it needed to be.

Damn Vicki, that's a hell of a labor day weekend. I'm jealous. Went for another 15 mile ride around my area. There's just so many bike paths around here. I found a bike entrance to work which means commuting is in my future.

Stopping for lunch at mile 17.5 with Dan.

Have fun. Did 62 miles today, but managed to stay with a group the whole time, which was much nicer. Since everyone was tired from yesterday, they went at a pace I could handle. Total for the weekend: 231 miles. Glad I accomplished what I wanted to do, but I don't think I'll be doing this again any day soon. I'm tired.

Yeah, I think I have a long ways to go in simply getting in shape before I starting chasing records.