Rides of the Weak

I managed to get a couple of rides in this week. Both mountain bike rides at SWK Tuesday and Wednesday. I'm having a lot of ghost shifting issues with the Rockhound. I messed around with the adjustment quite a bit and I can get it close but never perfect. I have ordered 2 new 9 speed chains, one for the Rockhound and one for the GF. I'm also thinking that the springs are bad on the rear derailleur of the Rockhound so I'm probably gonna pull the trigger on a new Shimano LX RD sometime soon.

I did basically the same route both days. I started at the second parking lot and took CAMBr Freeway to Colossus, via JackRabbit, as Doppelganger is under construction. Did the Colossus loop and headed back to Vertical Velocity. VV to Boulder Dash to Anaconda and out. Wednesday I skipped Anaconda.

Thursday my legs were very sore.

There has been some discussion on the CAMBr Forums about doing an impromtu time trial on a short course at SWK. If it does'nt happened, I will do it on my own so that I can gauge my progress. Currently I cannot ride the entire park, nor can I ride very far without taking a break. My goals for this year will be to;

1) Ride entire park without stopping

2) Time improvements on a short TT course

3) Start a "Goals" page on this blog to track progress

There is a trail workday Saturday and my plan is to ride afterwards if the trails are dry enough.

SWK Hike

Hiked SWK today to scout out potential CAMBr trail work projects. I walked roughly 4-5 miles. Legs are sore today.

Spin

Did a spinning ride in the basement this morning. Ride time....30 minutes, crappy country music on the radio. Bad music on the spinner makes you think alot. While spinning today I'm thinking........if I can ride with some regularity (3 to 4 times a week) then I can bump it up to 45 minutes in mid March. By early April we should be able to do some outdoor rides and stretch the ride times to about an hour.