Biking Log (2007)
Sep0
This is a comprehensive biking log as I train for the Reach the Beach (RTB) – 100miles on May 19th – and the Seattle to Portland (STP) – 200miles – on July 14th/15th! The list will be updated on a regular basis 
Riding with my mountain bike, knobby tires to begin with, then swapped to slicks
March 30th: 12 miles; 1hr 10 minutes; avg speed: 10.29mph
March 31st: 21.2 miles; 1hr 49 minutes; avg speed: 11.67mph
April 4th: Registered for the Seattle to Portland! – 2 days, 200 miles.
April 10th: 29.2 miles; No ride time recorded
April 15th: 34.04 miles; 2hrs 49minutes; avg speed: 12.09mph
April 20th: I put away my snowboard for the season, the RTB and STP training really begins!
April 20th: 23.37 miles; 2 hours; avg speed: 11.69mph
April 21st: Registered for Reach the Beach! – 1 day, 100 miles. Help me out, donate to the American Lung Association of Oregon!
April 23rd: 17.92 miles; 1hr, 14minutes; avg speed: 14.53mph
April 24th: 40.19 miles; 3hrs, 2minutes; avg speed: 13.25mph
April 26th: 50.17 miles; 3hrs 35minutes; avg speed: 14.00mph – HALF CENTURY MARK!
April 27th: 22.63 miles; 2hrs, 0minutes; avg speed: 11.32mph – Conquered Washington Park
Got my road bike!
May 5th: 14.42 miles; 56minutes; Avg 15.14 mph; max 29.05mph; avg cadence: 74
May 6th (morning/afternoon): 57 miles; 3hrs 46minutes; Avg 15.17 mph; avg cadence: 70 – Downtown Portland to St. Helens, OR via Hwy 30
May 6th (evening, cumulative total): 67 miles; 4hrs 46minutes; Avg 14.96mph; avg cadence: 69
May 9th: 21.81 miles; 1hr 29minutes; avg 14.68 mph; max 27.80mph; avg cadence: 72
May 12th: 100.55 miles; 6hrs 35minutes; avg 15.26mph; max 33.08mph; avg cadence: 76 – Downtown Portland to Rainier, OR via Hwy 30 [map]
May 19th: 100.35 miles; 6hrs 48minutes; avg 14.75mph; max 34.40mph; avg cadence: 73 – We Reached the Beach! Portland to Pacific City [map]
June 3rd: 27.7 miles; 1hrs 55minutes; avg 14.38mph; max 29.31mph; avg cadence: 70
June 10th: 23.14 miles; 1hrs 36minutes; avg 14.43mph; max 33.79mph; avg cadence: 70; elevation climb: 850feet. On West Union to Skyline Blvd.
June 16th: 29.82 miles; 1hrs 53minutes; avg 15.80mph; max 31.52mph; avg cadence: 79
June 17th: 28.32 miles; 1hrs 54minutes; avg 14.83mph; max 26.52mph; avg cadence: 70
June 22nd: 30.48 miles; 2hrs 16minutes; avg 13.38mph; max 26.03mph; avg cadence: 63; taking an easy ride tonight…. more rides tomorrow!
June 23rd: 33.94 miles; 2hrs 12minutes; avg 15.37mph; max 30.37mph; avg cadence: 62; MORE riding on Sunday! I broke 700 miles since this blog entry started and rode 497 miles on my road bike!
June 24th: 24.60 miles; 2hrs 1minute; avg 12.16mph; max 25.57mph; avg cadence: 57; it was pouring down rain this morning. It sucked.
June 25th: 9.16 miles; 0hrs 35minutes; avg 15.67mph; max 29.05mph; avg cadence: 70; a trip to REI and around Hillsboro stadium
June 27th: 40.11 miles; 2hrs 49minutes; avg 14.23mph; max 27.80mph; avg cadence: 65
June 30th: 101.00 miles; 7hrs 15minutes; avg 13.91mph; max 36.37mph; avg cadence: 65 – Started at OMSI, down the Springwater Corridor to Marine Drive to I-205 path, to Springwater Corridor, up through Washington Park, to 231st and Baseline in Hillsboro, to the Trimet Park and Ride by Nike World Campus, to Cedar Hills, to RadiSys Corporation, to Hillsboro Stadium, to Home.
July 1st (morning ride): 40.64 miles; 2hrs 26minutes; avg 16.73mph; max 31.22mph; avg cadence: 75. HWY30
July 1st (evening ride): 44.24 miles; 2hrs 48minutes; avg 15.77mph; max 31.23mph; avg cadence: 71. HWY30… again. I completed 92.94% of the STP (185.88 miles) in training rides in the last two days!
July 5th (evening ride): 21.84 miles; 1hr 29minutes; avg 14.61mph; max 27.02mph; avg cadence: 67. From Tigard to Beaverton to Hillsboro. [map] I completed biked 1010 miles now!
July 8th: 40.38 miles; 2hrs 47minutes; avg 14.45mph; max 28.08mph; avg cadence: 68. Springwater Corridor.
July 10th: 10.19 miles; 0hrs 40minutes; avg 15.26mph; max 26.03mph; avg cadence: 71. Around Intel and RadiSys in Hillsboro
Seattle to Portland 2007:
July 14th: 102 miles; 6hrs 29minutes; avg 16.3mph; max –mph; avg cadence: –. Seattle, WA to Centralia, WA
July 15th: 102 miles; –minutes; avg 15.24mph; max 31.5mph; avg cadence: 67. Centralia, WA to Portland, OR
July 20th: 7.71miles, 27minutes, avg 17.23mph, max speed 26.27mph, avg cadence: 74
August 5th: 60.29miles, cycling computer got reset. No trip data. – “Hottest Day of the Year Ride” at the Lucky Lab on 19th and Quimby. It didn’t even break 80 degrees today, and it was cloudy. I rode the 15 mile sign check this morning, and the 40 mile “challenge” loop with Susanna. 5 miles of that was just getting there.
August 6th: 27.23miles, 1hr 59minutes, avg 13.72mph, max speed 29.31mph, avg cadence: 65
August 10th: 4.8miles, 19minutes, avg 14.97mph, max speed 26.76mph, avg cadence: 60
August 12th: 33miles, cycling computer battery is crapping out!! No trip data. – 12th annual Providence Bridge Pedal. It is the second-largest community bicycle ride in the nation and third-largest in the world with more than 17,000 cyclists.
August 12th: 7.5miles – Biked from The Bite to Chantelle’s then to the Max at Goose Hollow. It started to rain!!!
August 15th: 4.5miles, 19minutes, avg 13.76mph, max speed 25.34mph, avg cadence: 76.
August 19th: 17.12miles, 1hr 10minutes, avg 16.59mph, max speed 29.05mph, avg cadence: 78.
September 2nd: 9.52miles, 44minutes, avg 12.96mph, max speed 32.13mph, avg cadence: 68 – went up Mt. Tabor 3 times
September 3rd: 17.46miles, 2hrs 2minutes, avg 8.52mph, max speed 22.34mph, avg cadence: 63 – Mountain biked Powell Butte
September 15th: 40.00miles, 3hrs 24minutes, avg 11.73mph, max speed 29.05mph, avg cadence: 61 – Cycling the Springwater Corridor with Chantelle.
September 19th: 3.93miles, 15minutes, avg 17.60mph, max speed 27.54mph, avg cadence: 80 – Biked to and from work.
September 22nd: 14.23miles, 55minutes, avg 15.42mph, max speed 28.08mph, avg cadence: 78 – Medium cadance workout.
September 30th: 40.9miles, 2hrs 39minutes, avg 15.38mph, max speed 28mph, avg cadence: 75 – LiveSTRONG Challenge. 100-mile option canceled due to inclement weather. 70-mile option was out due to rain soaking through all of my gear. I was cold and shivering.
RIDE TOTAL AS OF Sept 30th: 1552 miles since March 30th and counting – equivalent to doing the STP 7.6 times!
More rides to come!
Site updates in progress…
Sep0
Some things may not work so smoothly in the next few days. I’ve been updating my website theme….
Its in a dream.
Aug0
I’ve been actively dreaming over the past week. I don’t recall having so many dreams in the timespan of a week and I find it especially odd because I really haven’t gotten enough sleep lately. I woke up this morning thinking “huh!?” as a recalled the dream that I just had. It made no sense, and appeared to be a collection of thoughts and images that I collected over the past week.
I apparently went down to Eugene to visit Chantelle, Natasha, Troy and Katie. The dream started out in an apartment which I never saw before. There was a large sink in the kitchen and behind it was a large dining room table. The walls were yellow and it was a big place. I knew needed to go get my bike tuned, but I don’t think I had my bike with me at that point.
I walked outside and noticed that the apartment unit that I was just in is being supported by a large I-beam in a structure that was almost cantilever like. I was walking North. There was construction to the right, and a chain linked fence had been erected to keep people out. I kept walking until I reached the north end of campus and had no idea where the bike shop was, but I was pushing my road bike – it just appeared. Somehow I found the bike shop. I dropped off my bike… but then asked how long would it take to tune up. The guy said 1 day. I told him that I needed the bike back for a race that night. “I can’t finish it in time,” he said. I told him OK and just only gave him the front tire to true up. I walked my bike… and somehow i was also riding it —with only the back tire attached — on campus. The campus became OSU on the way back. I had somehow ended up around Cauthorn and Sackett Hall while trying to get back to the apartment. Half way back, I ended up calling the bike shop. “I needed my tire NOW,” I said. The guy told me it would be two days until the tire was ready. I was pissed off at him. I went back to the shop and grabbed my tire and ran. Next thing I knew i was outside of the apartment. I approached the door and noticed that there was a hole in the wall. I went inside and everyone was picking at the hole. I woke up.
The dream made no sense.
Bridge Pedal 2007 Completed
Aug0
We completed the 2007 Providence Bridge Pedal! Unlike the previous three years, it was cloudy today. But thats not too bad. I posted some photos on Facebook. If you have an account, you can view them. I’m not sure how many people actually rode today, but the Providence press release expected over 17,000 cyclists to be on the road and biked over 500,000 miles in a few hours. That’s impressive
Providence Bridge Pedal is the second-largest community bicycle ride in the nation and third-largest in the world. More than 17,000 cyclists are expected to participate in the ride on Sunday, Aug. 12 – and they will pedal more than 500,000 miles on the streets and bridges of Portland.