Scheduled Events And Notes For 2006
2006.09.09.SAT.AM-SUN.AM
- 2006
Eastern NC MS150 Bike Tour -
This was a busy weekend. Sunday afternoon was my dear
brother-in-law's memorial service. Many of his friends and
family were in Morehead City for the weekend. I had
already signed up for the MS150 bike tour and had many donations
so I got up early Saturday AM and drove to New Bern for the
Saturday Tour. This year we only had two folks who
returned from the team last year, myself and
David Sakell. We saw
George Hess while waiting for the
start of the ride and he looked ready to ride. I also ran
into Amanda from last year who had a friend along for the ride.
At the
second rest stop of the tour (I rolled past the first w/o
stopping) I saw Sharon (#8) again she is about 65 now and
had just returned from an international triathlon in
Switzerland (she was on the century loop and told me she was
doing the century on Sunday too). That lady is a machine and
a wonderful person, a few years ago we rode part of the century together and I recall that day could best be
characterized as a rolling 'bike-wash'!
At the
lunch rest stop I saw Gary Rolkie and old friend who was in
charge of the h/w engineering group at the first computer
company I worked for back in 1982 (CTi Data) Gary has ridden
every single Eastern NC MS150 ride (18 in a row). Gary was
also on the century loop and was busy wolfing down a banana
and some other food and after I was back on the road for a
mile or two here came this pace line past me and there was
Gary yelling out "Go For It Zach!" as they disappeared in a
cloud of dust down the road. I think I may have passed them
again while they were on their second '12.5 mi. century
loop' of the tour but for all I know they got back to the
start/finish line before I did.
I had a
pita-and-hummus-slices for lunch and when I got back to the
start/finish line there was chicken-euros on the grill ---
excellent choices for food this year.
On Sunday
I did my 75 mile loop around Carteret County, this weekend
was a family weekend and many of Evelyn's family were in
Morehead City for, my dear brother-in-law, John Eslinger's
memorial service. I was able to get on the road by 6:45am
Sunday morning. As I topped the Intracoastal Waterway
Bridge from Morehead City to Beaufort I could see this
little sliver of orange light peeping over the horizon ---
Sunrise.
I
continued on through Beaufort on US70 East. Where US70 East
turns right to go to Cedar Island I continued on for a
couple of miles to Laurel Road where I turned west toward
NC101 (The-Back-Road-To-Havelock). After riding over the
Intracoastal Waterway again and after crossing over the
Marlow Canal, a mile or so beyond the waterway, I turned
south to take The-Back-Road-To-Newport. In Newport I took
old US70 a few blocks toward the east across the Newport
River and then turned southeast on Hibbs Road.
Hibbs Road
goes all the way to NC24, my first rest-stop. I purchased a
litre of water, can of Red-Bull, filled up my water bottles
drank the can of Red-Bull and ate a banana. I was ready to
roll again headed south on NC24 toward Cape Carteret.
The wind
was out of the NE a beautiful cool morning and I was heading
SW and made good time all the way to NC58. At the NC24-NC58
intersection I turned south to cross the Intracoastal
Waterway a third time and rode onto Brogue Banks. On the
way up the bridge (I was around 40 miles into the ride and
in my lowest gear just taking it easy on the upslope). I
looked in my rearview mirror and saw a cyclist approaching,
he was closing in on me. As he got near I waved him on and
as he blew past me standing up on his pedals he shouted back
a cheery "Good Morning". Well, you know, nothing is more
satisfying to a cyclist than passing another cyclist, on a
hill, I know I made his day.
As I
turned east and headed up the island on NC58 the first mile
marker I noticed said 19 miles. I mentally added 11 (3 to
get to Fisher Street from the AB causeway and 4 each way to
Fort Macon). That would put me slightly over 75 miles. So
I spent some time figuring and felt like I could avoid going
all the way to the Ft Macon State Park parking lot before
turning around for home.
One the
way up the island I noticed another rider coming up on me
when he got close he yelled out, "Are you going to enter the
Senior State Games this year!". I allowed how as I was not but
that I did participate in other state sponsored cycling
events (CycleNC) and I found out that this fellow competes
in the Senior State Games and is in the 65 to 69 year group
and could not wait till his 70th birthday when he would be
the youngest in his age group and could win some races
again. I told him I was on my second 75 mile ride of the
weekend and he was impressed. He allowed that he had never
ridden his bike 75 miles in one go. When we finished
talking he zoomed off down the road leaving me in a cloud of
dust. That was amazing, he was 10 years older than I and
looked to me like he was in much better physical shape.
I made it
down to where I thought I could turn around (very near Ft
Macon) and headed back to the AB causeway and over the
Intracoastal Waterway a fourth time. I've named this route
the 'Four Bridges Ride'. Heading up that bridge I met two
cyclists and a runner going the other way on the other side
of the bridge. They had the wind at their backs and I had
by this time about a 12-15 mph breeze in my face.
I got back
to Fisher Street in just 5 hrs 45 min on the bike and 6 hrs 15 min
on the road which was 13.0 mph avg right on the button and
felt grand about it. My actual mileage was 74.80 miles (I
guess I could have gone one more tenth of a mile toward the
Ft Macon parking lot).
I was in
plenty of time for John's memorial service which was the
best memorial service I have ever attended. Many of John's
old newspaper buddies were there and some gave talks about
their times with John. Sally, the minister, presented the
service as a series of talks about John by John's friends
interspersed with some of John's favorite music. At the
beginning of the service John was piped-ashore by an old
Navy boson, and one of the tunes that Ann Odell played was
Eternal Father Strong to Save. Since one of the things that
John and I have in common (other than marrying two beautiful
sisters) was that we were both in Naval Aviation;
so this was, for me, particularly poignant. We all
together sang a Unitarian hymn set to the tune of Finlandia
by Jean Sibelius, one of John's favorite tunes. I will miss
John and consider my life more complete for knowing him and
am sure that he will live on in the hearts and minds of all
who knew him.
NOTES:
On Sunday the first day we left from Banner Elk NC. I left
1/2 hour before the "mass start" which would have included a
climb that would have left me at the absolute end of the ride.
The first part of the ride also featured a decent that was
basically three miles of vertical road. I was glad that I
was basically alone for that bit. When I saw a sign that
said "All Trucks And Busses Turn Around Here You Can NOT
Negotiate This Road." I knew they were not kidding about the
decent (over 1400 feet in three miles). We rode though
Boone and headed for Todd NC where we rode the entire length of
the "Todd Railroad Grade Road" along the New River. Then
onto NC16 (and some really big climbs to reach it from the New
River valley) where we did a seven mile decent to the level of
North Wilkesboro. Sunday night camped at the Doc and
Merle Watson Amphitheater and we listened to The North Carolina
Thumbpickers a good bluegrass band.
2006.12.24.SUN.PM - 2/3 Of North
Raleigh Loop - Today, because I was leaving at
2:30pm, I decided to ride for one hour and turn around and come
back giving myself about a 20 mile ride. I rode on the
greenway to the intersection behind Crabtree Valley Mall then up
the hill on Blue Ridge Road then onto Ebenezer Church Road.
Then on to just before the little dip where the road crosses
US70 that was the turn around location. Given that it took
me about 55 minutes to get to that place and 1:40 total I think
it can be said that the way out is up hill and the way back is
down hill.
2006.12.17.SUN.PM -
An Art
Museum/Greenway Ride - I headed up the hill
behind Crabtree Valley Mall from the greenway and instead of
turning right on Duraleigh Road I turned left on Blue Ridge.
At the Art Museum I entered the Reedy Creek Greenway and headed
for the Beltway Bridge. From there I kept on till I got to
the corner of Hillsborough and Gorman St. I turned back
north on Faircloth and heading up to Wade Avenue. I took
the 'back-way' around Ridge Road shopping center past the All
Star Bike Shop and on to Ridge Road. I turned down Glen
Eden and went all the way to Glenwood where the road changes
over to Granville. At Pasquotank I took a right onto
Transylvania and then another right onto Orange then left onto
Rutherford and then left onto Scotland then on down to Saint
Mary's which changes over to Lassister Mill. Once across the
creek I took the Greenway all the way past the Great Crabtree
Swamp to Raleigh Road and the back to North Blvd via Crabtree
Blvd Once back on North Blvd I took Hodges St back to
Atlantic Ave where I rejoined the Greenway back to Lassister
Mill where I retraced my route to the corner of Allegany and
Transylvania. On Allegany back to Yadkin then on up the
hill to Davidson Street and Home. The route is about 20
miles.
2006.12.16.SAT.PM - My North
Raleigh Loop Ride - This ride is about 50km. I
made this ride in about 2.5 hours. When you apply a little
arithmetic then two of these rides come out to be 100km in 5.0
hours. If you then multiply that by 12 you get 1200km in
60 hours. If you throw in 30 hours of rest time you get
1200km in 90 hours. So the question now becomes, if my
'pace' remains the same about 12.5 mph can I train up enough
between now and next August 20th (eight months) so that I can
repeat today's ride with 37 minutes rest per ride on average 24
times in a row? That is
my goal.
2006.10.01.SUN.AM - 2006.10.07.SAT.AM -
The 2006 Edition Of Cycle North Carolina (The
Five Sisters Tour Of North Carolina) -
This was my sixth CycleNC tour.
On Monday we had sixty miles of rolling hills from North
Wilkesboro to Clemmons NC. We played "tag" with US421 most
of the way. The weather was perfect for cycling. Not
too hot, and light winds. We camped the night at a park in
Clemmons called Tanglewood a nifty place, but sort of out in the
middle of nowhere. We rode past the home of Junior Johnson
just outside of Yadkin NC, quite a place, it looked like an
English country manor house.
On Tuesday we had seventy miles of rolling piedmont hills, a few steep ones (up and down) from Clemmons NC to Burlington NC. The ride passed through Thomasville NC. The mayor shook my hand and gave me a pin. There was a lady who gave each biker a hug and one just behind her that a little vibrator machine to give you a neck massage. And some of the ladies of Thomasville made some vegetable and some vegetable-beef soup. I had a cup of the veggie and as I walked back to my bike I was interviewed by the local TV station. We also had a rest stop this day at a dairy farm that made their own ice cream and everyone who wanted one got a cup, I had vanilla :o). This day's ride ended at the water reservoir for the city of Burlington and we had a bluegrass band called "Occasional Grass". Interesting enough there was no water for the shower truck at this stop so they drove in a big tanker full of water and it was a challenge to get it hooked up to the shower truck, the Burlington Fire Dept sent a pumper truck to save the day.
On Wednesday we rolled along through the Uwharrie Mountains from Burlington To Holly Springs. We skipped Chicken Bridge Road and instead crossed the Haw River at Bynum on an old concrete bridge that probably saw Model-T cars pass over it and is now restricted to bikes and pedestrians. We then had the 'honor' of climbing out of the Haw River Valley along Bynum Ridge Road. At one point along the ride you could look back and see the Uwharries stretched out along the horizon. We made our way across Jordan Lake (which dams the Haw River) on US64 then turned off to head to Harris Lake the cooling lake for the Shearon Harris Nuclear Reactor. We rode into Holly Springs along Avent Ferry Road. This night I spent in a bed at Paul and Laviece's new house (sister number three along the route --- see below). Additionally Laviece did THREE loads of laundry for me and I reduced my load of junk by two boxes full which was to the level it should have been from the start.
On Thursday we had a nice fifty mile ride from Holly Springs to Johnston County Community College in Smithfield. Laviece rode with me today and we had a grand time of it. For supper we had some 'serious' BBQ pork (eastern NC style) fried chicken, cold slaw, boiled potatoes and hushpuppies. Because Paul picked Laviece up at the end of the ride I had the opportunity to visit a store and get a razor and some Alieve, I was looking a bit 'scruffy' I suppose.
On Friday we rode seventy miles from Smithfield to Kinston. The day was overcast and between LaGrange and Kinston I finally got a chance to try out my rain jacket and new bike 'fenders'. They are 'Race-Blade' fenders and they worked just fine. When I arrived at the nature park in Kinston we had a pretty heavy shower but I had not yet put up my tent and by the time I finished pitching my tent the rain had ended and no more fell that night. Sadly the shower truck ran out of propane and I took a cold shower (later I found out that only one of the shower trucks had run out of gas and I could have had a hot shower if I had only wandered next door to the other truck, oh well, I now know how to take a really fast shower).
Saturday the final day was a cool cloudy ride from Kinston to Emerald Island. I kept my arm and leg warmers and my rain jacket on the entire way. Once at the end of the ride the sun came out and we had warm sunny time of it for the end of the ride party. This was the third time I had finished a bike ride at the Travel Campground at the end of Emerald Island (the other two were MS150 rides). I even met the mayor of Emerald Island. And I got two brand new reflective 'snap-bracelets' for my ankles when I do my brevet rides next spring.
I
call this ride the The
Five Sisters Tour Of North Carolina
because Jane (Evelyn's sister lives in Boone) Mary my sister
lives in Burlington, My sister Laviece lives in Holly Springs,
Gwin, my sister, lives in Mount Olive (five miles down the
tracks from the rest stop in Dudley on the way to Kinston) and
Mary Vann lives in Morehead City at the other end of Emerald
Island.
Here is a nice table of the distances, and elevations as recorded by my good friend John Tracey on his GPS
Date Distance Climbs Peak Change Final 1 Oct 72.8 4107 4590 -2590 1062 2 Oct 63.7 1198 3393 -233 829 3 Oct 73.6 962 3799 -225 604 4 Oct 72.4 725 3598 -137 467 5 Oct 53.1 494 1939 -319 148 6 Oct 70.5 157 1234 -96 52 7 Oct 59.2 83 681 -38 14
2006.09.26.TUE.PM - Well
so much for theoretical minimum walking times for 2 miles!
This is truly astonishing. I have been loosing some weight
(down about 20-25 lbs from my maximum) and that must be what was
responsible for the fast walk.
2006.09.23.SAT.AM -
Fisher Street Bogue Banks Ft Macon Ride
- A beautiful Saturday morning and a nice two hour spin.
2006.09.17.SUN.AM -
Fisher Street Bogue Banks Ft Macon Ride
- A beautiful Sunday morning and a nice two hour spin.
2006.09.16.SAT.AM -
Blair Farms High School Greenway Loop Ride
-
A nice one hour Saturday morning spin.
2006.09.09.SAT.AM-SUN.AM
- 2006
Eastern NC MS150 Bike Tour - See
Above
2006.09.03.SUN.AM
- North
Raleigh Loop Ride (CCW) - A
beautiful Sunday morning ride. I left at 8am and there
were practically no cars on the road, a very quiet sleepy labor
day Sunday.
2006.09.02.SAT.AM
- North
Raleigh Loop Ride (CW) - A beautiful
Saturday morning ride. No clouds in the sky. Temp in
the 70s. A cool breeze out of the north. When I got back
home I felt fine, went out and picked up the sticks that were
blown off the trees by the tropical storm. Yesterday I signed up
for the 2006 edition of Cycle North Carolina
2006.09.01.FRI.PM - Well
I was heading back to work. Tropical Storm Ernesto was
heading out of the state having gone east of I95 and basically
giving Raleigh the skip (very good). I could not resist a
'rain-walk' at Lake Lynn. The temp was about 68 and I had
my rain jacket on as much to keep warm as to keep off the light
sprinkle. I sort of 'hurried-along' for this walk and even
got to the point I was warm enough to unzip the jacket and push
up the sleeves. I'm sure I kept my heart rate up the whole
walk and when I passed the one mile mark at 15:01 I decided to
try and keep the same pace to see if I could go at or under a
3:45 sec average per 1/4 mile. And I did!
2006.08.25.FRI.AM -
Brogue
Banks Out And Back Ride - I left Fisher St and rode to Ft. Macon
then back down the island. When I got to the bridge
intersection I had been 11 miles. When I was at Ft. Macon
I had exactly 7 Miles so this means that it was 4 miles to the
fort from the intersection and three miles back to Fisher St
(that's 11 miles all together). So this means that I could
continue down the Island for a certain distance and subtracting
some fixed number from my mileage and determine exactly where to
turn around so that when I arrived back at fisher street I would
have ridden 40.0 miles. And I figured it incorrectly! What
I did in my head was this: "Well it is 3 miles from the
bridge intersection to Fisher St. and 4 miles from the bridge
intersection to Ft Macon so that makes it 8 miles round trip to
Ft Macon from the bridge intersection. I went on to
calculate, I need to turn around at precisely 28 miles because
20-8 is 20 and 20+20 is forty". Well that was all well and
good but incorrect because it left out the 3 miles from the
bridge intersection to Fisher St and if I did that I would have
ridden . What I then started to do was figure thusly:
"Since I've already ridden 11 miles when I am at the bridge
intersection then all I need to do is subtract 11 from my
currently mileage take that number and double it add back in the
11 miles and make that number come out to be 40, Doing this
calculation gave 24.5 miles because half 24 minus 11 is 13
doubled is 26 plus 11 is 36 plus 3 back to fisher St. is 39 plus
the .5 (doubled) gives 40. Well I had already ridden 25.7
miles when I discovered the error so that's why the mileage was
over 40 miles. Here is a gmaps pedometer
track of
the routed.
2006.08.23.WED.AM - Wow!
I'm thinking those two days of riding SAT/SUN and two days off
MON/TUE and all that Glucosamine Sulfate is starting to kick in.
The fastest walk of the year and 5th fastest of all time.
And I felt I could crank it up a bit more given that the temp
was in the high 80s low 90s. I think "I'm Back!". which is
great!!!
2006.08.19.SAT.AM -
2006.08.20.SUN
Fisher Street To US101 To Old Wineberry To New Port To Hibbs
Road To NC24 To Bridges Street To Fisher Street. This is a
ride that I mapped out some time ago and have been really
wanting to do. This morning I got the chance! And it
was everything I thought it would be. The weather
cooperated and when I got back to Fisher Street around 11am the
temperature was not too bad. I started out at 7:30am and
if I could have left an hour earlier it would have been even
better. Here is a graphic and a queue sheet for this ride:
QUEUE
SHEET.
Sunday morning I did the same route except I rode the loop in a
counter clockwise direction and got off about 1/2 hour earlier.
The wind was stronger and since I did the ride on Sat I was
tired when I got back to the Inland Waterway Bridge, I pulled
over just before the bridge drank the rest of my water,
stretched and hit the road, at the top of the bridge I met a
biker coming the other way, he was pushing his bike up the
bridge so I felt I was doing ok since I managed to be peddling.
2006.08.13.SUN.PM
- Davidson Street to Commons Drive Holly Springs - When I got
back from Morehead city on Sunday I found a new pledge to this
year's MS150 bike tour. In celebration I got on my bike
and rode down to Holly Springs to Laviece and Paul's new house.
Here is a GMap-Pedometer.com
track of
the route.
2006.07.02.SUN.AM -
2006.07.03.MON.AM -
2006.07.06.THU.AM - Le
Tour de Topsail Island - This was the family week at the beach
and Laviece and John and I got in some very nice bike rides up
and down the island.
2006.06.11.SUN.AM
- The 'Complete Greenway Ride'.
Today I set out on Roberts
Trek 6000 Mountain Bike with my
GPS/HEART-MONITOR/CYCLE-COMPUTER. I had on my riding pants
but put on shorts over them and my CycleNC Bike Jersey. I
headed down Yadkin Drive and got on the greenway and headed up
to Crabtree Valley Mall and on under Edwards Mill Road to the
end of the greenway. After turning around and riding back
I set off for Shelly Lake and on to Longstreet. Then back
down the other side of Shelly Lake and on toward Root Elementary
School near Lassiter Mill. After crossing Crabtree Creek
on Lassiter Mill Road I got back on the greenway and headed
toward Wake Med. At the end of the ride I went up the hill
to the CVS pharmacy and got a bottle of water and a bottle of
GatorAid and headed back. When I got back to the Yadkin
Drive Crabtree Creek area I was feeling strong and decided to
tackle the hill going up to the North Hills Tennis Courts in
North Hills Park. I did then headed back up Davidson
Street to the house. A great ride. I was out on the
road for 3 1/2 hours and rolling for 3 of those hours. Here is a
web page that has the GPS track of the ride and some pictures I
took with my cell phone while riding: "Greenway-Ride".
2006.06.03.SAT.AM -
Another 'Three Peninsula Ride'.
Today was the 600K Brevet Ride with the NC Bike Club
Randonneurs. Well I did not do ANY of the brevet rides
this year but I have high hopes for the rest of this year
leading up to the brevet rides of next year that I will be in
shape to breeze through the lot of them and then organize a trip
to France in August of 2007 for the PBP ride. That's my
plan, we'll see if it happens. I think I'll need to get my
right knee worked on between now and then to make this a
success.
2006.05.29.MON.AM -
A
nice 'Three
Peninsula Ride'. And a grand end to a wonderful
Memorial Day Weekend. This morning was perfect for a bike ride,
not to hot, or too windy, I needed to get back to Fisher street
to say good bye to Ginny and her friend who were off for DC so I
did not just reverse the ride when I got to Fort Macon and do it
in reverse. If I had it would have been a 38 mile ride,
and I intend to do just that for this ride sometime soon.
2006.05.21.SUN.PM - A
Fantastic Greenway Ride. The Raleigh Greenway System just
opened up greenway links that head east down Crabtree Creek.
From my house on Davidson Street I head down Yadkin Drive to
Crabtree Creek and get on the greenway heading east and ride for
9.2 miles without ever getting off the greenway. A
beautiful ride featuring covered areas that go under railroad
trestles, trestles that climb out of Crabtree Creek Gorge, and a
long elevated areas over a swamp/lake. I would up at the
CVS Pharmacy just across from Wake Medical Center. In the
future they are going to extend this thing all the way to the
Neuse River. And eventually west to Umstead Park.
That will be something. I'll bring my GPS and camera with
me on another of these rides and post the route and pictures.
2006.05.13.SAT.AM - A
Short Ride - I took off for my 'big-loop-ride' around the county
and only got about 7 miles down the road before I had to turn
around, my knees had given out. I'm not sure what is going
on but I'll figure it out. Here is a GPS track of the short
ride.
2006.04.15.SAT.AM - (Counter Clockwise N Raleigh Loop
Ride) - For some reason I went to bed really early last night and
found myself up at 4am and as the day began to dawn I prepared to
ride. I left at 7:15am and returned at 9:30am. a nice ride.
And I am now working on a computer application that uses the Google
Maps API to be a "Bicycle
Route Queue Sheet Design Tool". I have the display part
working (i.e. after you design the route and save the data set the
part that reads the data set back in and displays it is working).
Take a look at the link and see what you think (you have to click
'load' to see the saved route).
2006.04.02.SUN.PM - (My Good Old N Raleigh Loop Ride) - I
got new shoes yesterday, an early birthday present from Evelyn,
Ginny, Anna and Robert and I switched over the cleats and was
getting ready to go for walk and Evelyn said, "Aren't you going to
try out your new shoes?" Well now, given this weekend is the
absolutely most beautiful weekend of the year so far I put on my
riding shorts and new shoes and hit the road. I kept thinking,
"Well I can just ride on the greenway a bit, and I can turn around
any time now, and before I knew it I was pulling into the gas
station at the corner of NC-50 and Norwood road my 1/2 way point,
buying a small can of 'Red-Bull' and 1.0L bottle of water and
getting ready to go the rest of the way, which I did! And
excellent ride. Here is a link to the
Google
maps-pedometer route. And here is the
Queue Sheet for this
ride.
2006.03.26.SUN.AM - (A DVD VIDEO) - This is billed as a 2
mile brisk walk. You walk in place and also do: side steps,
knee lifts, back kicks, front kicks, and using a rubber band do some
arm stretching. It gets your heart rate up and it gets some
muscles going that do not get going usually, and I did it on a nice
soft cushioned rug so all in all a most successful workout.
Additionally because there was frost on the car and my ribs are
'stove-in' from an activity at work last week I gave the NCBC Spring
Bicycle Rally a pass this year.
2006.03.20.MON.AM - (A WALK TO WORK) - This day the
company had a meeting that started at 7:30AM and was being held in a
hotel near Crabtree Valley Mall. This hotel is right near a
bike path that I have been on many times so I decided to walk to
work this morning. I left about 7:10AM and arrived at 7:40AM
so the walk was just about a 2 mile walk, my usual lunch walk.
Here is a
link to the walk
using Google maps.
2006.03.12.SUN.AM - (The Three
Peninsula Ride) - We left at 9AM and headed up Fisher St
to 24th St to the AB bridge and over the bridge and up to Ft Macon.
Then back over the bridge and out Bridges St to the bike path and
the High School. Then down Country Club Road to Blair Farms
Point then back on Blair Farms Pkwy to 20th St and back to Fisher
St. What a super Sunday morning ride.
2006.03.11.SAT.AM - (The Two
Peninsula Ride) - Laviece and Paul came down to the beach
this weekend. This is Laviece's spring break and we set out
from Fisher street then up to 20th street then over to Blair Farm
Point then back along Country Club Road then onto the Crab Point
loop then down to the High School and onto the bike path back to the
Hospital. Then across to the NC Marine Fisheries department
past the UNC Chapel Hill Marine Biology department and then into the
NC Wildlife Access Boat launch area and onto Evans Street.
Then all the way down to Sheppard Street and down to the State Port
Authority and back across the peninsula to Fisher street. In
the afternoon we explored the potential "Four
Peninsula Ride" which will start at Fisher Street go over the
bridge toward Beaufort then up NC101 to the "Marlow Canal"
then wind around to Newport then over to NC24 and back to Blair
Farms then over to Fisher Street then onto Fort Macon and back to
Fisher Street.
2006.03.06.MON.PM - (Lake Lynn
Clockwise Walk) - I had a lunch meeting Friday and
Saturday and Sunday just did not get out of the house to walk or
anything else. Today at Lunch I was feeling pretty good (three
days rest). So I cranked it up and walked quickly the whole
time. My HR hit 80% of MAX a few times and I never got below
130. The average 1/4 time was my best for this year 3:49 and
only 10 seconds per 1/4 mile from my all time best of 3:39.5.
The key is the rest my feet are just so sore these days it is
difficult to crank it up. I'm trying some stretching before I
walk to see if that helps. The other thing I suppose would be
to see if some sort of shoe inserts would help. Of course the
weight is the biggest thing if I could drop 20-30 lbs that would be
the most help of all.
2006.02.25.SAT.AM - (Fisher
Street - Blair Point - High School - Fort Macon Loop Ride)
A chilly ride, the temp started out in the high 30s low 40s but hit
high 40s before it was over. When I got back to the Atlantic
Beach bridge I decided to go out to Fort Macon and it was a grand
tour. I took some time at the shelter that overlooks the
Beaufort inlet to let my toes thaw out a bit and was fine on the way
back over the bridge to Morehead City. I thought about just
going in complete reverse to get back to Fisher Street which would
have put the ride at about 40 miles, perhaps next time I do this
ride I'll do that.
2006.02.07.TUE.PM - (Work - Food
Lion - Work Loop Walk) Here is a nice 2.4 mile walk
from my office down to the shopping center Food Lion store where I
can pickup a sandwich and return to work, not only getting lunch but
also getting in a good walk. It certainly is not as scenic as
the Lake Lynn Walk but it has the advantage of also being around two
miles and I do not need a car to get to the walk start/stop
location. I mapped out the walk using the Google Maps
Pedometer application and here is a
link to the
actual walk.
And here is a
graphic
of the map of the walk.
2006.02.04.SAT.PM - (Fisher
Street - Blair Point - High School - Loop Ride) My
first bike ride of the year. The theory was that walking two
miles at lunch would keep me in good aerobic shape so when I do ride
my bike I will feel just fine. And if today's ride is any
indication of whether that theory is correct then I can say it is
proved! What a grand ride, I felt good the whole ride, even
when the wind was in my face which it was about half the ride around
15 miles per hour gusting to 20. Near the end of the ride I
thought about just riding over the Atlantic Beach Bridge and going
out to Fort Macon and back but decided not to push it for the first
ride.
2006.01.13.FRI.PM - (Lake Lynn Walk) The VO2-MAX reading is from my new heart-rate-monitor watch. This watch will compute the Rockport VO2-MAX reading. You enter your age, weight, sex into the watch and press the 'test' button and it gives you a five minute warm up time then beeps at you. After one mile you press the stop button and it computes VO2MAX. I bet if I actually had my VO2MAX computed directly it would be higher, and I think the equations that I find on the web are not correct. The walk around Lake Lynn is a total of 2 miles. Here is the route as computed by Google Maps Pedometer.
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