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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

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4/1 Century 1 (CXR) 210 miles!
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May - 719
June - 1016
July - 930
August - 787
September - 760
October - 610
November - 566
December 10 - 198
December (Snow Miles) - 204

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September - 521
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November - 373
December - 280

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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!
Week 9 150/52 - Fail
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!
Week 13 200/213
Week 14 300/241
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