Biking To Live Week 1 Summary

With Sunday, Apr 27, upon us the first week of Biking To Live is in the history books. Overall it’s been a great week. I did four rides this week:

Here’s the numbers breakdown for each of these rides:

Ride 1: 10.83 miles, 53 minutes, 12.26 mph average speed
Ride 2: 10.2 miles, 48 minutes, 12.75 mph average speed
Ride 3: 9.86 miles ,47 minutes, 12.4 mph average speed
Ride 4: 17.48 miles, 1 hr 19 minutes, 13.2 mph average speed
Total For Week: 48.37 miles, 3.78 hrs, 12.65 mph average speed

For my first week back into an exercise program and cycling in a very, very long time I’m more than happy with those numbers. I didn’t push myself overly hard to achieve them and they give me targets to shoot for next week. The rides themselves were very good and they’ve left me feeling better about myself than I did last week. It’s amazing what a little exercise will do for you.

I suffered my first injury, Trouble Down Below, but a switch to another pair of shorts seems to have alleviated the problem.

I discovered some great folks over at Bike Forums. You should check them out if you are new or coming back to cycling after a long layoff. Lots of great information. Another website that’s helped me this week is Bike Noob. It caters to the biking newbie and has some great articles by Ray.

Week 2 Goals

With week 1 in the books I want to try and improve every week. Therefore, I’ll be implementing weekly goals for myself. Looking at week 1′s total stats ( 48.37 miles, 3.78 hrs, 12.65 mph average speed), I believe I want to push my weekly mileage to at least 50 miles total for the week, a total time to at least 4 hrs, and a Saturday ride of at least 20 miles. If I hit 50 miles and 4 hrs exactly that’ll be about a 1% increase over my week 1 numbers. I think that’s doable.

http://kc-bike.blogspot.com Noah

Fellow BFer here. It's a great place. Especially the commuting forum.
Bryan

@Noah: Thanks for stopping by. With gas prices going the way they are I may have to check out the commuting forum. Way, way back in my early days in the military I used to ride to work a lot. Where I live now it would be about 15 miles one-way, which isn't bad, but finding a route that isn't too congested with traffic may be hard.
http://kc-bike.blogspot.com Noah

I, too have about a 30 mile round trip. I started off with a bike/bus regimen, and still do that on days that I'm too tired to do the whole trip or when weather isn't good. On a side note, you might also look into multi-mode commuting.

Anyways, keep up the good work. You're riding more than I did when I started in September '06.
Bryan

@Noah: I may have to look into the multi-mode commute. Sounds interesting. I believe the buses here have the bike racks on the front of the buses. Thanks for the encouragement.
http://www.gojoeylogano.com Joey Logano Fan

Hey Bud, the first 4 links don't appear to be working.

"Unfortunately we were not able to find that page you were looking for…"

http://bikingtolive.com Bryan

Thanks. They're all fixed now. The links were broken when I changed the permalink structure. There may be a few more lurking so I'll try and find them.