Claire and I decided to go out for a mountain bike ride this afternoon, and by sheer coincidence, we ran into A2 and Jimmy Neutron.  We all decided to ride together.  The weather was perfect.  We ended up riding for over 3 hours and do almost the whole perimeter of the park.  We got back to the bus at right around sunset.  It was great to see Jimmy Neutron out on his mountain bike.  This was our first ride with him if you don’t count the downhilling at Northstar this summer.  Everybody managed to stay upright the entire ride.  A2 was out sporting his new Sedi shoes and Frog pedals.  He was a bunny hopping fool.  Here is a link to the ride.  

I went out for a run around the neighborhood today while Claire walked.  I took my Garmin with me to see how it would work.  I think that running through all the trees threw it for a loop since it ended up saying that I only ran around 6 miles in a little over an hour.  I know there were plenty of hills and all, but I wasn’t running that slow.  I checked the map that it came up with afterwards and there were some pieces missing, probably during the times that it had trouble with the satellites.  We did some secret stuff on the run, and I did a lot of looping back and forth to check up on Claire, so the map is pretty haywire.  I felt great.  Maybe a little cold at the end, but no aches and pains.  Here is a link to the loop.

Well, our intentions were noble.  Claire and I hopped on our bikes with Mathilda in the trailer behind me.  We headed out on our favorite loop out Westside Road, etc.  About 6 miles into it, my left pedal broke.  Nothing catastrophic, but just a little snap as the pedal body separated from the spindle.  I have been waiting for this to happen since they are a pair of inexpensive clipless pedals that I have probably overused.  The rest of the way home I just had to concentrate on keeping the pedal together and everything was just fine.  When we got back home I ran into the house and grabbed another left pedal which I had sitting around.  Claire didn’t feel like going out any further, so I decided to go ride over Sweetwater.  When I got part way up the hill outside Rio Nido, my right pedal decided to break.  I turned around there deciding that it just wasn’t in the cards for me.  Here is a link to my ride.  

I rode the rollers for an hour and a half the other day.  I am always surprised how fast the time goes by.  I remember when I was younger that a half an hour seemed like torture, but now the time just flies by.  I made a workout playlist for my iPod which I have listed below.  I ended with a average heart rate of 158. 

Well, I feel bad since I went out with A1 and A2 on Nov. 22 and didn’t write anything about it.  We went out on a mountain bike ride in Annadel at 7 in the morning which is quite cold.  It was great to be out there and I showed the two of them a couple of new trails.  A1 had his Garmin along and he sent me this link.  We ended up going about 20 miles in two hours.  My average heart rate was almost 170.