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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Finally rode the whole High Trestle trail

Posted by Courtney Hilton at 2:07 PM

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Steph said...: I'm gonna go check it out this weekend! so excited!; April 20, 2011 at 1:52 PM

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Trans Iowa Training Log

Week: Goal/Actual - Notes

Week 1 : 150/181 - Very Nice Weather!, and a Group Metric

Week 2 : 150/188 -Still Warm, a 70 Miler with Nick 80 mile Pugs ride in the 60 degrees...then single digits

Week 3 : 100/93 - Overnights all week 58 miles on sunday morning before a night shift!, Sick on Friday

Week 4 : 150/142 -75 miles on wed, 3/30min

Week 5 : 200/169 - 103 on tuesday, big snow storm saturday

Week 6 : 150/35 - bad week for taining

Week 7 : 150/130 - not bad

Week 8 150/245 - Cirrem!

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Week 10 200/200 - 133 miles long ride and started riding on my luch hours too

Week 11 200/190 115 gravel/road and lunch rides

Week 12 200/210 - Good Week!

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