Saturday, May 21, 2011

112 Miles

I rode by myself today. It was windy. At one point (for about 15 miles) I thought maybe the rapture was indeed upon us. Psycho winds and rain pelting me in the face and I couldn't see a thing. Lovely. But I came through 112 miles still alive and unscathed in 5:37, avg HR 144.

I stayed completely aerobic the whole time... perfect because it meant I was burning mostly fat for fuel, which is a good thing when you're planning on being able to run afterward. I ran spot-on race pace for an hour afterward (gotta love Garmin's avg pace feature) and felt fine. I wish I would have signed up for IM Tex-ASS.

10 comments:

Molly said...

You will kick ass in just a few more weeks!

Iron Krista, "The Dog Mom" said...

DAMN that's fast. I don't know how you do it? I can't get an AVG ride pace like that even with a bunch of fast boys in a pace line. Where do you ride? Well, I guess I could go bore myself to death and go back and forth on the B-Line but I think if I did that I'd have to ride into the highway and get run over :-)

Anyway, NICE ride :-)

Aimee said...

Seriously, you are AMAZING!!

Regina said...

Nice! Totally different ride from mine, except for the rain at one point. Don't know why, but I'm so stoked for your IM, ha!

mmmonyka said...

WOW!

Angela said...

You're going to kick some butt soon enough! Sounds like you're in amazing shape for CDA.

Kim said...

wow wow michelle - awesome ride!!!

Kim said...

NICE Michelle! Way to go!

Kiet said...

Damn, them are some awesome numbers, 112 min 5:37? Can you pass along some of your bike superpowers?

Libby said...

Nice work! smoked it in the aerobic zone. awesome. love the pic too- my garmin like that just died and I got a 310 but I secretly miss that one