Yesterday I planned to ride at lunch time but just couldn’t drag myself out. It was in the mid 50’s but at lunch time the wind was gusting around 20 mph and earlier in the morning it had hit 57 mph at the Reed Ranch weather station which is near where I work. A lot of days I would have still gone out but I felt really wiped out and would have had trouble dragging out even without the wind.
Once I thought about it, I wasn’t suprised I felt the way I did. Last Friday I did about a 2.5 hour group. Saturday I hiked up the old Manitou Incline and then back down Barr Trail. Sunday was Christmas and I spent it with family but we did go to Seven Falls and I carried Danielle, who is about 25 pounds, up about 400 steps between going up to Eagle’s Nest and the stairs by the falls. It has been years since they’ve had the stairs by the falls opened at Chistmas time.
Monday I put in a 100 miles on the road. Tuesday I rode easy for a little over an hour on the Santa Fe Trail. Tuesday was a fairly mellow 2 hour group ride at lunch. That’s certainly more training than I’ve been doing lately so I’m sure a day off the bike was a good thing.
Today I was thinking of going downtown and riding with the group that meets at Acacia Park at 12:30 during the week. My plan is to ride between 90-100 miles tomorrow and I decided it would be better to ride by myself and take it easy. I went and did a short loop through Garden of the Gods.
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Tags: Bike, Colorado Springs, Hike, Manitou Incline
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