100 miles

Nancy and I hit our 100 mile mark in our training. We're still way behind last year and way behind Ned with his impressive 250 miles, but we picked up the pace a bit with today's ride, averaging 12.4 mph. It helps that this ride was all on nice open road surface, closed off to cars and the weather was just perfect for riding.

We did the Art Museum loop - well not really a loop - more like up and back - twice for a total of 25 miles. We took a quick pit stop at the beautifully restored Philadelphia Water Works and took in the view across the Schuylkill of the famous Boathouse Row.


Our training is still fairly hill deficient. Neither of us had the steam to make it up the super steep hill that almost all our rides entail unless we drive to the beginning. I swear this hill is really killer even though it looks pretty in this photo. Thing is there are two more hills after you get up this! Last year we were able to do it, but we haven't even attempted it so far.


Hope everyone is having fun and we can't wait to see you all!

Holy Hills Batman!

Hi all,

Well, most of our training so far has been flat (unless you count the giant hill we have to go up to get home from most rides). So today I decided I needed to mix in some hills. It was a short ride - only 8.69 mi but I felt good that my average speed was still 11.5 even with some a number of decent hills. I guess the good thing about going uphill is that generally you get to go downhill too! Need to get my brakes checked though!

If you check out my ride on MapItPronto disregard the steep dip around mile 2 - it must calculate the elevation based on the topography of the land and not the actual road. There's a bridge that goes over this ravine.

Anyone planning to come down to Philly for Memorial Day weekend? We would love to see yuze gize!