We had the most gorgeous weekend here! Sorry, cold weather people!
Saturday: 80.88 mile ride. Fast!
Saturday morning I met up with some Team Badass people to ride up the coast. We started in Solana Beach and rode north through Carlsbad and Oceanside, across Camp Pendleton, through the San Onofre Beach park to San Clemente and back. This route is super fun and flat but windy. For the first half of the ride, I was donk chasing my girls Lauren and Rene. Those two are smokin' fast! Kinda nuts since Rene just had a baby 8 months ago and already has abs that are far superior to any I've ever had. Even though I was going as fast as possible, over 20 mph in some sections (!), they were still way, far ahead. I like chasing. It keeps me working hard. The headwind killed me on the way back and my pace slowed quite a bit, but I still averaged over 17 mph for the entire ride, which I will definitely take! My Infinit worked really well and I never bonked, cramped or felt hungry. I did, however, manage to get a bit of a sunburn. Must wear sunscreen!
One of the highlights was chicking a dude that hated to be chicked over and over again. He was kinda strange. Riding a Cervelo P3, so nice bike, but he had frat boy shamrock Lucky boxers on under his shorts. Ouch! Sore balls and chafed taint were his just rewards.
Sunday: 34.5 mile ride. Slow and hilly.
I'm going out of town next weekend and won't have a chance to ride, so I swapped my normal Sunday long run for yet another bike ride. I was tired when I woke up super early Sunday morning (thanks daylight savings time!) but excited to ride. My friend and team mate mapped out a super evil route that had 2600 feet of climbing in 34 miles, with almost all of it in the first half, including a monster climb out to Ramona. I was extra excited for this ride because Luke joined us for his first ride in quite a while. Poor guy! This was a rough ride back.
I was kind of stupid Sunday morning and left my water bottles sitting by the front door. You know, leave important stuff in an obvious place so you don't forget it! Didn't work. I also assumed it wouldn't be too cold and wore just a sleeveless jersey with arm warmers. Once we go to the meet-up point, Inh informed me that it was going to be 45 in Ramona. Well, crap. I found a sweatshirt in the back of my car and put that on. I looked like a total newb, but Inh was wearing one, too, so he was my dork partner. Luke is always cold, so we was dressed appropriately and got to give me a bit of shit about not listening to him. hahaha.
My butt was very sore and my legs were tired, but I took it easy and powered through. Gorgeous ride and the complete opposite of Saturday's. Saturday was all about the ocean and Sunday was all about the back country. Lots of farms and monster hills. There were some pretty awesome descents. We all finished and celebrated with giant breakfast burritos from a local Mexican place. Sooooo good!
Sunday night, I had ladies' dinner club and I was the host. The theme was Spanish tapas. Everyone brought really excellent dishes and we sat around the pub table and drank lots and lots of Sangria and nibbled on great tapas. Here's my contribution to the dinner:
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| Mmmmmmm...sangria! |
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| Close-up of the drunken fruit heaven |
Let's just say there was no way I was making it to the pool this morning. 116 miles of bike riding in the sun + lots of sangria = no training and lots of sleep and hydration!
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