New Parking spot today. Parked at the top of Cobbles in Foo foo vill and we'll see how long that lasts as tons of people were doing it since the intestines closed.... Down Cobbles and up power lines, I felt good on powerlines no stopping at the top cont on till we got to the tunnels. Down Rocking horse hit the first couple jumps I need to sack up and hit the rest! Then back across the water crossings and up the eastside of the cyn. Did a couple runs up top then back to the car. Not a ton of climbing but TONS of great single track! Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 314 ft Location: Rancho Santa Fe, CA Elev. Gain: +3 ft Date: 07/10/08 Up/Downhill: [+800/-797] Time: 06:01 PM Difficulty: 3.4 / 5.0 Performance Distance: 13.43 miles Time: 1:38:43 Speed: 8.2 mph Pace: 7' 19 /mi Heart Rate: 148 bpm (Avg) Calories: 616 187 bpm (Peak) Map   Elevation (ft)   Speed (mph)

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Headed to PQC for a solo MTB ride today. I wasn't feeling it really.... I was very close to bailing but I'm glad I went. My HR monitor is on the fritz a bit I had to stop 2X to adjust it to get it to read right.... But I started at the lower lot and headed into the Canyon. I was feeling ok, and I was inspired by the number of people out there.... As I past one person I saw another on the horizon so I'd try to catch them.... and so on and so forth :) I past a whole lotta peeps, esp on the climbs! Lower back was getting sore but it was good as my legs felt good and I was putting some good power down! Up powerlines I didn't even pause till I got to the very top not just at the false peek. I rocked the tunnels (still wimped out on last 2 jumps and I skipped a new one.) up out of the cyn and back thru to the car I was moving well! Another good ride! Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 232 ft Location: La Jol, CA Elev. Gain: +3 ft Date: 07/09/08 Up/Downhill: [+918/-915] Time: 05:45 PM Difficulty: 3.4 / 5.0   Weather: Partly Cloudy   66 F temp; 70% humidity   66 F heat index; winds W 8 Performance Distance: 12.02 miles Time: 1:17:08 Speed: 9.4 mph Pace: 6' 23 /mi Heart Rate: 156 bpm (Avg) Calories: 577 186 bpm (Peak) Map   Elevation (ft)   Speed (mph)

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Ok so for the last few days I've been saying I don't feel fit.... but everytime I ride to or from work I break my privious record.... So I left work feeling pretty good, scale on this one a 7. I hit the initial climbs and I layed into it. Not 100% but pretty hard, up the bike path, up the 15 path, then I started to really hammer on the short but steep climb to caroll Canyon Road. Past the highschool and I hold big ring till I get to the bottom of Carroll Canyon. Up the climb to Miramar I pushed it, then across onto Kearny Villa road and dialed it up Big ring the whole way till I cross over the 52. I hit Claremont Mesa road and I start to hit like every light and I'm feeling like my time is gonna suck.... But I get on the final stretch and I see I'm at 1hr.... So I drop the hammer and push big ring all the way home!!!! New PR ;) "The Mind has to rule the body and tell the body SHUT UP and do what I tell you to do!" Jens Voigt Activity Route: Claremont to work Elev. Avg: 433 ft Location: Mission Beach, CA Elev. Gain: +252 ft Date: 07/08/08 Up/Downhill: [+1246/-994] Time: 06:00 PM Difficulty: 3.9 / 5.0   Weather: Partly Cloudy with Haze   68 F temp; 67% humidity   68 F heat index; winds W 7 Performance Distance: 17.84 miles Time: 1:04:32 Speed: 16.6 mph Pace: 3' 37 /mi Heart Rate: 162 bpm (Avg) Calories: 964 186 bpm (Peak) Map Mission Beach, California   Elevation (ft)

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After the Big Laguna Ride my lungs felt like crap.... the ride was insanely duty and I had black stuff in my nose, black stuff in my ears and I was coughing up black crap! not good. I woke up this am with a stomach ache....I sound like I'm 12, but I guess a 5 cheese personal pizza, 6 glasses of ice tea, and a beer kicked my GI track in awful vill..... So this am I was weezy and queezy and not on top of my game. on a scale of 1-10, 1 being sick as a dog and 10 being top of my game I was at a 3..... So off I went and I felt like I was moving mad slow and it took me all the way to the 52 to feel warmed up (30mins in) I pushed a bit of big ring on Kearny Villa Road and we pushing well up Carol Canyon.... I caught a few lights and actually finished strong and beat my best time to work be 30sec..... *Shrug* I ate a good breakfast lots of water and an Emergen-C and feel better. We'll see as the week goes on. Activity Route: Claremont to work Elev. Avg: 433 ft Location: Mission Beach, CA Elev. Gain: +252 ft Date: 07/08/08 Up/Downhill: [+1246/-994] Time: 06:45 AM Difficulty: 3.9 / 5.0   Weather: A Few Clouds   65 F temp; 75% humidity   65 F heat index; winds SW 3 Performance Distance: 17.84 miles Time: 1:06:20 Speed: 16.1 mph Pace: 3' 44 /mi Heart Rate: 149 bpm (Avg) Calories: 847 184 bpm (Peak) Map Mission Beach, California   Elevation (ft)

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Good ride today! Long Ride! Started a bit leak, the altitude was putting the cybosh on me (whole ride over 5,000 feet) at the initial climb, which in the end had little payoff.... But after a couple hrs we got off the fire roads and into some great single track. I was getting kinda owned on the climbs but its not like I got to the top last :) as I lead out on many climbs :) Funny these days as I'm not so happy when I'm not the first to the top :) I was not riding the descents very well either. Lots of loose, silty, moon dust :( But as we got to hr 3 I dropped the psi a bit and WOW!!! ok so 40psi is way to much for the soft stuff... I'm learning but yea I dropped the pressure (a lill bit too low) but I was descending way better!!!! We did a nice loop around a meadow (which had a few scary looking big ass Bulls in the pastor eye us....) We made our way to Penny Pines and then up the initial climb to Noble Cny, then down the top section to the first road crossing :) Now it was getting good! we climbed back up to penny pines then did a really fun ride around the rest of the meadow. I was then finally! at 4hrs feeling like myself! I was moving well and the legs while a bit tired we moving well! Great ride! Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 5716 ft Location: Mount Laguna, CA Elev. Gain: +10 ft Date: 07/06/08 Up/Downhill: [+3008/-2998] Time: 08:35 AM Difficulty: 5.0 / 5.0 Performance Distance: 22.64 miles Time: 5:05:36 Speed: 4.4 mph Pace: 13' 38 /mi Calories: 1324 Map   Elevation (ft)   Speed (mph)

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Wasn't feel particularly good this am on my ride in.... I was tired and was expecting a bad time to work..... I started to feel better as I made my way down kearny villa road thru miramar and I started to pick up the pace, I held a good pace from there on and ended up 4mins faster than last week :) who would have thought :) Activity Route: Claremont to work Elev. Avg: 433 ft Location: Mission Beach, CA Elev. Gain: +252 ft Date: 07/03/08 Up/Downhill: [+1246/-994] Time: 06:45 AM Difficulty: 3.9 / 5.0 Performance Distance: 17.84 miles Time: 1:07:00 Speed: 16.0 mph Pace: 3' 45 /mi Heart Rate: 148 bpm (Avg) Calories: 858 172 bpm (Peak) Map Mission Beach, California   Elevation (ft)

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Tried a new ride from the visitor's center but got a lill lost so we just did and out and back. Joe was rocking his new rig, very nice! I really like this ride and if we could make this a loop have to get Jeff out there and show us the way. I wasn't feeling particularly well, I find myself saying that alot as of late.... I'm not sure but I think its because I was hammering and so disciplined this spring. But I did ride ok. More lata now sleep! Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 561 ft Location: La Mesa, CA Elev. Gain: -7 ft Date: 07/02/08 Up/Downhill: [+1420/-1427] Time: 06:21 PM Difficulty: 4.1 / 5.0   Weather: Fair   74 F temp; 59% humidity   74 F heat index; winds W 9 Performance Distance: 14.07 miles Time: 1:58:29 Speed: 7.1 mph Pace: 8' 27 /mi Heart Rate: 152 bpm (Avg) Calories: 747 183 bpm (Peak) Map   Elevation (ft)   Speed (mph)

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