Good ride tonight, was a bit chilly but I wanted to spin out the legs before the race this weekend. Headed out with the Gary Fox crew. Started out redlining it on the short climbs and movin quick, but we toned it down once we got into Tunnels. I'm gonna miss the tunnels word is they (in they I mean the Ahole Equestrian dicks the pay there way onto the land managment boards) will be closing the area.... Thru the tunnel goodness and then back thru PQC. I walked up the goat climb as I wanted to keep the legs fresh for tomorrow. Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 278 ft Location: Del Mar, CA Elev. Gain: +0 ft Date: 11/13/08 Up/Downhill: [+1433/-1433] Time: 05:36 PM Difficulty: 4.1 / 5.0 Performance Distance: 18.05 miles Time: 2:53:56 Speed: 6.2 mph Pace: 9' 41 /mi Calories: 961 Map   Elevation (ft)   Speed (mph)

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Another fucking flat on my ride home!!! What is with the roads around here? tire armor liners and slime tubes and I still flat.... I pumped the tube back up and could hear the slime gurgle but it didn't seal and I ran out of CO2.... Kerin saved me and picked me up. Got home pumped up the tires and this am still fine... WTF no more CO2 I guess as that didn't seal um. Ride started out just fine, I love these new lights! Pushed it a little harder then last week up the scripps poway climb. then I saw these lill ~12-13 yr old kids going up the climb to miramesa on the bike path (at night... no helmets no lights..... not smart) anyway kid on a BMX rides up beside me, "Hey wanna race?" I said "you sure?, you really sure?" he said "bring it on" so I let him go ahead ~half a bike length, then rocket past him off into the night (I did hit 187HR is all fairness) I heard "cheater!" in the distance :) Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 479 ft Location: Poway, CA Elev. Gain: +7 ft Date: 11/11/08 Up/Downhill: [+879/-872] Time: 08:00 AM Difficulty: 3.0 / 5.0   Weather: Fair   56 F temp; 86% humidity   56 F heat index; winds Calm Performance Distance: 6.52 miles Time: 0:30:58 Speed: 12.6 mph Pace: 4' 46 /mi Heart Rate: 142 bpm (Avg) Calories: 405 187 bpm (Peak) Map   Elevation (ft)

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Fuck!!!!

Oh joy guess who is sitting at a gas station waiting to get picked up
as he got another ride ending flat senario!!!!

Argh! What's waste of time and effort:(

Easy ride in today, picked it up a lill bit as I was running late. Light traffic as its a holiday so that was nice only hit 1-2 lights... But I did see 2 separate cars pulled over on the side of the road with people passed out in them....? Party to much on a Monday night? WTF? Rear tire was low when I got in I hope to hell I'm not gonna have another flat on the ride home..... WTF... I hope I just grabbed a piece of glass on the ride in and lost some air before the slime sealed it. We shall see :( Activity Route: Claremont to work Elev. Avg: 433 ft Location: San Diego/Montgomery Field, CA Elev. Gain: +252 ft Date: 11/11/08 Up/Downhill: [+1246/-994] Time: 06:45 AM Difficulty: 3.9 / 5.0 Performance Distance: 17.84 miles Time: 1:17:40 Speed: 13.8 mph Pace: 4' 21 /mi Heart Rate: 152 bpm (Avg) Calories: 980 176 bpm (Peak) Map Mission Beach, California   Elevation (ft)

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Headed up to Vail Lake for a stnd xc race today. Was a BLAST! we headed up early 6:30am it was a sunny beatiful socal am! I reg'd and was ready to race the first real XC race of my life. I was in Sport 19-29 one of my last races in this category.... Hit the start and had a pretty bad start, couldn't get in my pedal and ended up starting pretty far back. I used a couple new CX moves I learned to do some run ups early and pass some of the slower traffic. The main climb was bigger then I thought but def not crazy, fun switch backs led to a short fire road climb then a crazy sandy switch back decent. That dropped you into tunnel of love where I totally got jammed up behind some slower riders :( I got past then when it opened up to fire road and up a new trail called gun slinger... when I got stuck behind a guy that was way to tentative on a steep decent and I had to try and go around him to the left lost control and rolled end over end.... not fun! but after I got my composer and passed the guy the trail was fun stuff 80% single track that made passing hard but fun ride. I hammered it home 1st lap in 38 mins. With lap traffic gone I knew I'd be able to try and start really passing people. I really tried to put the hammer down on the climb catching and passing each person I got in sight. I passed a few here and there and then there was a group of 3 just ahead but I just couldn't reel them in.... I hammered home trying to catch on the fire road but was out of gears :( they turned out to be 2nd and 3rd in my class :( but a great first race. 2nd lap was 30 sec faster and I finished in 1:14! I learned that the start is way more important in these shorter races! next time I know :) Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 1668 ft Location: Aguanga, CA Elev. Gain: +3 ft Date: 11/08/08 Up/Downhill: [+1459/-1456] Time: 09:04 AM Difficulty: 4.2 / 5.0   Weather: Fair   68 F temp; 33% humidity   68 F heat index; winds Calm Performance Distance: 10.91 miles Time: 1:36:49 Speed: 6.8 mph Pace: 8' 49 /mi Heart Rate: 182 bpm (Avg) Calories: 565 192 bpm (Peak) Map   Elevation (ft)   Speed (mph)

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Great night ride! we headed out from the cars and hit the single track heading into the Cyn east. We passed wagon wheel and to the waterfall. Feeling good I cruised up power lines and made a quick loop to pick up the others. Up to tunnels we headed down rocking horse and across the water crossings. I did some good trail orienteering and we went down Joe's tunnel. back thru the tunnels and I felt good on the climb out. Back across the fire break and down cobles where the recent rains made the trail really nice and tacky. We picked up the pace going back across the waterfall and I was redlining it a bit but felt good. back to wagon wheel and then to the, classic PQC ride :) Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 214 ft Location: Del Mar, CA Elev. Gain: -4 ft Date: 11/06/08 Up/Downhill: [+1223/-1227] Time: 05:51 PM Difficulty: 3.9 / 5.0 Performance Distance: 18.28 miles Time: 2:23:01 Speed: 7.7 mph Pace: 7' 48 /mi Heart Rate: 154 bpm (Avg) Calories: 926 189 bpm (Peak) Map   Elevation (ft)   Speed (mph)

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Cx workout went ok.... did 3 climbs up saber hill. 1st was a cruise, 2nd I hammered 90% 1:32 avg 172, the 3rd chilled and then headed to saber park to do mounts and dismounts. Did 4 or 5 full speed dismounts and mounts and then realized I had a flat..... oy! more CX work on Friday Activity Route: lunch walk Elev. Avg: 509 ft Location: Poway, CA Elev. Gain: -3 ft Date: 11/05/08 Up/Downhill: [+423/-426] Time: 12:00 PM Difficulty: 1.9 / 5.0   Weather: Fair   66 F temp; 44% humidity   66 F heat index; winds NW 5 Performance Distance: 1.68 miles Time: 0:09:15 Speed: 10.9 mph Pace: 5' 30 /mi Heart Rate: 148 bpm (Avg) Calories: 215 186 bpm (Peak) Map Poway, California   Elevation (ft)

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