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Saturday, March 31, 2012

Spring Fling Camping





















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Monday, March 26, 2012

Century Again...


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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Pugsley Metric Ouch!

Breakfast?



Best Lunch EVER.


Squirrel And Teri's Pace on cross bikes really got me a good workout.



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Saturday, March 24, 2012

Still Training

44 Miles 2:45, ouch


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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Lights are here!

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2012 Cup-o-Dirt

1/1 Metric 1 (The Knife)
1/25 Metric 2 (MTB)
1/31 Metric 3 (The Knife)
2/22 Metric 4 (MTB)
2/25 Metric 5 (CIRREM IV) (The Knife)
3/6 Metric 6 (132 miles/60 gravel) CXR
3/13 Metric 7 (CXR)
3/25 Metric 8 (PUGS)
4/1 Century 1 (CXR) 210 miles!
6/2 Century 2&3 (CXR) DK200 (17:15)
7/14 Metric 9 (CXR) GTed Death Ride
10/3 Metric 10 (MTB)

2012 Milage

January - 764
February - 482
March - 847
April - 538
May - 650
June - 499
July - 450
August 23 - 240

2011 Cup-o-Dirt

  • 15th Metric 12.10 (The Knife)
  • 14th Metric 11/4 (Pugsley)
  • 8th Century 10/14 (Touring Bike)
  • 13th Metric 10/13 (Touring Bike)
  • 12th Metric 9/4 (Touring bike)
  • 11th Metric 8/24 (Raliegh)
  • 10th Metric 8/11 (Pugsley)
  • 7th Century 7/30 (The Knife) GTDRI
  • 9th Metric 7/26 (Tandem) To Ragbrai
  • 6th Century 7/15 (CXR)
  • 5th Century 6/29 (The Knife)
  • 4th Century 6/4 (Raliegh) DK200
  • 3rd Century 5/16 (Raliegh xxix)
  • 8th Metric 5/6(Mary SS)
  • 2nd Century 4/28(Touring Bike)
  • 7th Metric 4/1 (CXR)
  • 6th Metric 3/27 (Touring Bike)
  • 5th Metric 3/14 (Touring Bike)
  • 1st Century 2/17 (CXR)
  • 4th Metric 2/12 (The Knife)
  • 3rd Metric 2/5 (The Knife) BRR
  • 2 Metric 1/31 (Mary SS)
  • 1st Metric 1/7 (Mary SS)

2010 Cup-o-Dirt

  • 1/16 First Metric SS
  • 2/6 Second metric BRR
  • 2/27 Third Metric CIRREM
  • 3/17 Fourth Metric
  • 3/28 Fifth Metric
  • 4/24 Sixth Metric
  • 5/1 Seventh Metric
  • 6/4 Eighth Metric SS
  • 8/15 Ninth Metric G88
  • 8/30 Tenth Metric
  • 9/4 11th Metric
  • 10/13 12th Metric

2009 Milage

January - 413 miles
February - 620 miles
March - 765 miles
April - 740 miles
May - 890 miles
June -1034 miles
July -1147 miles
August - 826 miles
September - 659 miles
October - 543 miles
November - 557 miles
December - 360 miles
Total - 8554

2010 Milage

January - 331
February - 436
March - 742
April 644
May - 719
June - 1016
July - 930
August - 787
September - 760
October - 610
November - 566
December 10 - 198
December (Snow Miles) - 204

Total 7943

2011 Milage

January - 527
February - 529
March - 644
April - 721
May - 633
June - 700
July - 665
August - 549
September - 521
October - 538
November - 373
December - 280

Total 6682

Bike Collection

  • 2010 Surly Pugsley (Bat-Mobile)
  • 2010 Masi CXR
  • 2009 Raleigh XXIX +G
  • 2009 Grand Randonneur
  • 2008 Haro Mary SS
  • 198? Retro Bike
  • 1993 Schwinn Moab
  • 2007 Trek Pilot Retired
  • 2008 Giant Bowery
  • 2008 Bianchi San Jose (The Knife)
  • 1981 Bianchi Fixie

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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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