Much better ride tonight, dialed it back a bit an had fun! new fluted light lens worked well and the knee felt well. TFT this weekend no rides till next tuesday. Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 219 ft Location: La Jol, CA Elev. Gain: +26 ft Date: 11/29/07 Up/Downhill: [+1167/-1141] Time: 05:40 PM Difficulty: 3.6 / 5.0   Weather: Mostly Cloudy   63 F temp; 28% humidity   63 F heat index; winds NE 3 Performance Distance: 12.82 miles Time: 1:53:53 Speed: 6.8 mph Pace: 8' 49 /mi Calories: 673 Map   Elevation (ft)   Speed (mph)

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Man what a bad ride.... I wasn't really feeling it today, started out ok.... was slow the whole time I def need to get my confidence up when riding at night if I'm gonna race in a 24hr race! Right when I was feeling ok and got a rhythm going I lowsided on the inside of a turn and my foot wouldn't come out of the pedal so I slide on top of my knee/leg..... I walked the ensuing climb.... then on the last up and down I couldn't get my foot out again and fell tossed the bike thru a tantrum like a little 12yr with a skinned knee..... ah well finished up and had the whole drive home to think about how much of a douch I was..... gearing up and gonna try and have fun tomorrow night bounce back and enjoy myself :) Activity Route: 52 short loop Elev. Avg: 689 ft Location: La Mesa, CA Elev. Gain: +10 ft Date: 11/28/07 Up/Downhill: [+974/-964] Time: 05:00 PM Difficulty: 3.2 / 5.0   Weather: Fair   62 F temp; 39% humidity   62 F heat index; winds Calm Performance Distance: 5.53 miles Time: 0:55:57 Speed: 5.9 mph Pace: 10' 10 /mi Heart Rate: 157 bpm (Avg) Calories: 260 181 bpm (Peak) Map La Mesa, California   Elevation (ft)

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More Spin Class

Spin again...

Stats
58:00.6
1060 CALORIES
AVG HR 177
MAX HR 192

San Jacinto Hike

Well here it is my San Jacinto report lots of data to sift thru....

Here we go, started with meeting everyone at the base of the Palm Springs Tramway we packed up the gear and hit the road. Ride up in the Tram

Tram up Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 4304 ft Location: Palm Springs, CA Elev. Gain: +6234 ft Date: 11/24/07 Up/Downhill: [+6532/-298] Time: 01:48 PM Difficulty: 3.8 / 5.0 Performance Distance: 3.47 miles Time: 0:36:52 Speed: 5.6 mph Pace: 10' 38 /mi Calories: 202 Map   Elevation (ft)   Pace (min/mile)

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After settling in for a few mins up top 8,516ft we got moving to the camp at round valley. Temps were in the 40's-30's and it was calm and clear. The Hike to Round valley was a decent work out as my pack was heavy (well heavy for me) ~2.5 miles and we were there.

hike to camp Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 8761 ft Location: Palm Springs, CA Elev. Gain: +653 ft Date: 11/24/07 Up/Downhill: [+823/-170] Time: 02:47 PM Difficulty: 3.3 / 5.0 Performance Distance: 2.14 miles Time: 2:03:48 Speed: 1.0 mph Pace: 57' 47 /mi Calories: 318 Map   Elevation (ft)   Pace (min/mile)

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We found a good spot and setup camp. As the sun dropped the temps did also and my pansy socal ass was getting cold. So to make dinner we set off on a little night time water run (I only ran my gps cause I didn't wanna get last but I'll share all data I have :)

water run Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 9031 ft Location: Idyllwild, CA Elev. Gain: +0 ft Date: 11/24/07 Up/Downhill: [+104/-104] Time: 04:54 PM Difficulty: 1.8 / 5.0   Weather: Fair   69 F temp; 7% humidity   69 F heat index; winds N 7 Performance Distance: 0.70 miles Time: 1:04:50 Speed: 0.6 mph Pace: 01' 32' 52 /mi Calories: 105 Map   Elevation (ft)   Pace (min/mile)

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After our little jont we made a warm dinner, thanks to matt I kicked back a couple shots of Jamisons to warm up. The moon was insane and we went off for a little night walk to check things out very cool (and the temps were also) but the walk warmed me up and it was time to head to bed. With a Nalgene of boiling water at the base of my sleeping bag I went off to sleep.... the damn moon was so bright I kept thinking it was the sun coming up thru out the night but I slept ok....

Next day ~6:30am got up and cooked a bit of oatmeal and set off for the summit.

Was a very cool pretty easy climb to the top, the altitude was noticable but not bad. The views from the top were awsome you could see the pacific ocean and the salton sea! the windmills from the palm springs wind farm looked like nothing more than rows of dots on the ground below.

summit Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 9919 ft Location: Idyllwild, CA Elev. Gain: +42 ft Date: 11/25/07 Up/Downhill: [+1774/-1732] Time: 08:15 AM Difficulty: 4.2 / 5.0   Weather: Mostly Cloudy   69 F temp; 9% humidity   69 F heat index; winds S 6 Performance Distance: 5.33 miles Time: 5:45:28 Speed: 0.9 mph Pace: 01' 04' 46 /mi Calories: 773 Map   Elevation (ft)   Pace (min/mile)

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I was pretty damn tired and in the pics you will see at this point I packed up camp and pasted out for about 20mins of so as everyone packed thier stuff. We were off to head back to the tram!
The hike back was pretty easy except the damn little climb to the tram station at the end that did me in!

From camp to tram Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 8745 ft Location: Idyllwild, CA Elev. Gain: -492 ft Date: 11/25/07 Up/Downhill: [+295/-787] Time: 03:32 PM Difficulty: 2.8 / 5.0   Weather: Fair   67 F temp; 14% humidity   67 F heat index; winds SE 7 Performance Distance: 2.29 miles Time: 1:13:37 Speed: 1.9 mph Pace: 32' 13 /mi Calories: 257 Map   Elevation (ft)   Pace (min/mile)

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We had a beer (best $8 beer I ever drank) toasted to a good weekend and headed home a great trip!

everyones pics consolidated in one gallery here (157 pics :) )




Oh and one more thing....."Who open da winda...? I don't wanda winda open!"

A nice pre-Thanksgiving stuff myself with insane amounts of Tofurkey tomorrow. Took it pretty easy still def adjusting to night riding makes the decents so much harder! Maybe a ride tomorrow while Kerin runs her 10K. but if not I'll be posting up our Hike to the peak of San Jacinto Sunday night/Monday am Activity Route: Mission Trails 3/4 52 loo Elev. Avg: 687 ft Location: La Mesa, CA Elev. Gain: -66 ft Date: 11/21/07 Up/Downhill: [+1049/-1115] Time: 05:04 PM Difficulty: 3.3 / 5.0   Weather: Fair   58 F temp; 77% humidity   58 F heat index; winds E 3 Performance Distance: 5.66 miles Time: 1:05:17 Speed: 5.2 mph Pace: 11' 32 /mi Heart Rate: 157 bpm (Avg) Calories: 319 186 bpm (Peak) Map Mission Trails, California   Elevation (ft)   Speed (mph)

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More Spin class

So another day of getting out of work and its dark so I hit up another spin class....
Stats
59:21 min
1044 calories
175 avg hr
193 max hr

Felt good pushed myself pretty hard.....I added an est of spin class miles to my total its was a very conservative est of 14mph avg to get the mileage....

12hrs of Temecula

Ok the 12hrs of Temecula is done and may I say this was harder than I thought! But it was a damn fun. We started out with a quick tune and pack Thursday night. Friday we headed up to the campsite and set up. Early Saturday (6am) we reg’d under the name “The Friggin Bone Heads” 9am Matt was off for the first lap! He pulled down a 1:08 lap and we were in great shape! Garey went 2nd and thru down a sub 1hr lap (~57mins?) I was up next and didn’t feel good from the start (First lesson learned bring a road bike and trainer to warm up and I think my adrenaline got the best of me as my HR was in the 180’s whole lap!) Stats for my first lap, 1:13:19 avg HR 183! Max Hr 193, calories burned 1434….. yea I went out way to hard…. This course had NO flats you were either going up or going down I mean look at the topo! ~10miles 1500’ vert no flats…. I was disappointed and tired…. Joe was up next and rocked out a ~1:08! Good work! Matt went out and bettered his first lap and Garey then turned in another sub 1hr lap. My second lap was up and I was tired but wanted to do good! I started out slower and didn’t peg the HR right off the bat, I was a couple minutes up at the half way point but wasn’t feeling the second climb so I dialed it back to save some for the decent (so I could at least enjoy it) I walked that whole climb (it was bascilly designed as a 80% walk climb it was named “burning calves”) I ripped the decent and had way more fun but turned in a 1:18:36 avg HR 179, Max HR 193, 1456 calories. Joe took the hand off for our last lap as we were all tired and DONE! He did the only lap in the dark out of all of us! Good times! Much harder than I thought it would be but very fun! Activity Route: 12hrs Temecula fall 07 Elev. Avg: 1731 ft Location: Aguanga, CA Elev. Gain: +6 ft Date: 11/17/07 Up/Downhill: [+1459/-1453] Time: 11:00 AM Difficulty: 4.1 / 5.0   Weather: Mostly Cloudy with Haze   65 F temp; 65% humidity   65 F heat index; winds SE 3 Performance Distance: 9.78 miles Time: 1:13:00 Speed: 8.0 mph Pace: 7' 30 /mi Heart Rate: 183 bpm (Avg) Calories: 339 193 bpm (Peak) Map Aguanga, California   Elevation (ft)

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Wow what a tuff ride! I did a bit of hike a bike as the tech climbs were tough in the dark.... the local riders were a bit impatient with me also as I was there just chilling and I think they were out for a work out... ah well Lights worked great, bike is running good, except I fell again damn pedals are too hard to get out of.... day off tomorrow, wrench/pack thursday race saturday! lots of pics and maybe even a lill vid from the race/beer drinking even next week.... Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 273 ft Location: Del Mar, CA Elev. Gain: -4 ft Date: 11/13/07 Up/Downhill: [+1354/-1358] Time: 05:42 PM Difficulty: 3.7 / 5.0   Weather: Fair   69 F temp; 37% humidity   69 F heat index; winds N 5 Performance Distance: 11.29 miles Time: 2:14:10 Speed: 5.0 mph Pace: 12' 00 /mi Calories: 673 Map   Elevation (ft)   Splits Mile Pace (min/mile) Speed (mph) Elevation Gain actual +/- avg actual +/- avg 1 19' 36 +7' 36 3.1 -1.9 +131 ft 2 10' 44 -1' 16 5.6 +0.6 -99 ft 3 12' 07 +0' 07 5.0 -0.0 +19 ft 4 14' 40 +2' 40 4.1 -0.9 +168 ft 5 13' 57 +1' 57 4.3 -0.7 +72 ft 6 6' 42 -5' 18 8.9 +3.9 -33 ft 7 13' 53 +1' 53 4.3 -0.7 +36 ft 8 10' 12 -1' 48 5.9 +0.9 -194 ft 9 13' 06 +1' 06 4.6 -0.4 +180 ft 10 8' 32 -3' 28 7.0 +2.0 -173 ft 11 6' 05 -5' 55 9.9 +4.9 -95 ft end 14' 23 +2' 23 4.2 -0.8 -16 ft Versus average of 5.0 mph

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Wow we flew today! had to stop 2X to fix my seat (new seatpost needed adj) but other than that we didn't really stop (at least I didn't) Start to finish Garey was pounding the pedals! we didn't stop at the parking lot 3/4 up the main climb we hammered it out and kept going till we hit the top paused for a min and kept at it..... This time was via my GPS (which I started a few mins before we left) so in reality we did it in about 1:45! which if I look back into my data is out of the 7 rides I did there this year that was the fastest by 17 mins!!!! Nice couple mtb rides this week Tuesday/Thursday then the 12 hr race this weekend! Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 602 ft Location: Santee, CA Elev. Gain: +17 ft Date: 11/11/07 Up/Downhill: [+1227/-1210] Time: 09:48 AM Difficulty: 4.0 / 5.0   Weather: Partly Cloudy   64 F temp; 51% humidity   64 F heat index; winds W 9 Performance Distance: 16.24 miles Time: 1:53:43 Speed: 8.6 mph Pace: 6' 59 /mi Calories: 755 Map   Elevation (ft)   Speed (mph)

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Ok this ride was fun as times and a disaster at others.... The long and short.... 1 person didn't make it to the ride, 3 broken/dead lights, one insane-o crash/tumble down an embankment and almost tumbled into an abbiss of a ravine.... So long and short.... tomorrow is a new day an other chance to have a fun ride! Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 232 ft Location: La Jol, CA Elev. Gain: +13 ft Date: 11/08/07 Up/Downhill: [+1305/-1292] Time: 05:36 PM Difficulty: 3.8 / 5.0   Weather: Overcast with Haze   59 F temp; 77% humidity   59 F heat index; winds N 6 Performance Distance: 14.44 miles Time: 2:56:42 Speed: 4.9 mph Pace: 12' 15 /mi Calories: 786 Map   Elevation (ft)   Speed (mph)

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Day Light Savings

Well with daylight saving hitting I turned in the road bike for Spin class.... I feel so gay going but once I'm there its a good work out!



warmed up for ~20mins @ 160 watts or so then 50min class @ a hard pace, HR died so I have no stats but it was pretty hard!

Off today as people are still getting their lights together, Gary Fox ride tomorrow night.

Wow what a cool/odd ride. Got a late start had a headache was really tired.... Get going and I'm thinking in my head oh boy I'm gonna suck today. But as we got going I warmed up and the advil kicked in and was feeling ok. Then we saw a SDFD rescue helicopter doing manuvers out in the canyon when the chopper came straight at us a guy stepped out onto the skids and ropped down to us! was really cool! Guy just said hi and the chopper came around and hooked him to a winch and pulled him up! So that was the first long stop. So onto the single track felt ok, hit the gate and made our way to the sycamore canyon road climb, felt really good but got smoked by Garey. Jeff (new guy) wasn't feeling good, nauseous we sat for a few mins but he wasn't feeling good so he called for a ride home. (second long stop) We made our way up the last climb and descended into Martha's Grove and WTF! a lill mini bulldozer was used to clear the trail a bit and it fucking turned all the corners into SAND! damn it! I was cursing and moaning at each corner as I couldn't hold speed and it was really making me angry damn land management thinks a mini bulldozer is a great way to do trail maintenance...... aholes! made our way back to the gate and into the single track again, where Garey went down a bit hard..... We were ripping and he was in the groove up till then, then I came really close to the same fate! but I got luck and saved it..... Back out to the road where to my surprise I was holding a gap to garey... the new setup really shined here I was mostly in my big ring! (that is a 32 for me :) I couldn't catch garey but I held the gap. We made it to the cobles I cleared the up and down and cranked thru all the rocks (damn that is hard) but I felt really good! really good! so I guess all those breaks were god :) Plus I smashed my mileage goal for the year with 2 months felt to go! Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 600 ft Location: Santee, CA Elev. Gain: +0 ft Date: 11/03/07 Up/Downhill: [+1184/-1184] Time: 10:01 AM Difficulty: 4.0 / 5.0   Weather: Clear   72 F temp; 39% humidity   72 F heat index; winds Calm Performance Distance: 16.24 miles Time: 2:48:00 Speed: 5.8 mph Pace: 10' 21 /mi Calories: 828 Map   Elevation (ft)   Speed (mph)

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Good post work ride, doing alill catch up on the blog. I didn't feel that good but was ok on Torrey Pines and the traffic on the PCH due to the 5 closing due to some psycho ditching pipe bombs.... that made an interesting decent (people parked in traffic in the bike lane ect ect) but felt ok. Activity Route: Carmel Mnt Elev. Avg: 117 ft Location: La Jol, CA Elev. Gain: +7 ft Date: 11/02/07 Up/Downhill: [+1427/-1420] Time: 04:00 PM Difficulty: 4.1 / 5.0   Weather: A Few Clouds with Haze   62 F temp; 72% humidity   62 F heat index; winds W 8 Performance Distance: 20.53 miles Time: 1:18:11 Speed: 15.8 mph Pace: 3' 48 /mi Calories: 969 Map La Jolla, California   Elevation (ft)

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