Yes, I brought my new bike home today!
This thing is a freaking rocket - I had it up to 28 mph in my neighborhood on a straight away and the wind was in my face! On my old Schwinn road bike at the same piece of road I could get it up to maybe 22mph if the wind was at my back. And the aero bars make such a difference. They really let you get your legs into the stroke and just hammer as do having the clipless pedals. These two features are just great.
I cannot wait to go take it out on the bike route in Huffman!
Anyways I only got in 9 miles today because of lightening. We had some much needed storm showers all through the day and I was hopeful they were done by the time I got home. But they were not so I had to hustle back to the garage! According to my Garmin I still burned 300 calories so not a bad workout.
Tomorrow is the always brutal Legs & Back.
Thanks for Reading,
Jeff
You get what you pay for ;-)
ReplyDeleteHoly cow!!! That is amazing. I can't wait until I am done with all this marathon foolishness and get back to triathlon training. At that point I will get my new tri bike!
ReplyDeleteIt's no wonder cyclists have the best legs. Calves, quads, hammies, all getting involved. Keep going Jeff!
ReplyDeleteSteve, I was just rolling around my cul-de-sac and one of my neighbors pulled up next to me in his car and I clipped out my left foot and leaned right!! HELLO Pavement!! As any good neighbor would do he immediately began laughing as hard as he could as did I. I am sure this is going to be the first of many clip incidents!
ReplyDeleteROFLOL!!!
ReplyDeleteJeff, that's hilarious! But the most important thing is: DID YOU SCRATCH YOUR BIKE?
...oh man, I'm still laughing at that one!
I trust you're OK though, no broken collar bones and such..
Don't worry the bike landed softly on the uncoordinated spaz who was flailing about below!!
ReplyDeleteI was fine. It was more of a slow slump as opposed to a violent fall. As I was going down I tried to fight it the entire way and it probably looked like it was in slow motion!