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Bike-Hike To Coyote Open Valley Space
https://ift.tt/3o2Sarw One of my local meetup groups was doing a hike in Coyote Open Valley Space so I rode my bike there to meet them. I took my Sirrus upright and did a lot of stand-up pedaling. We went on a four-mile hike and I took the long way home to help work off the Thanksgiving feast. At the start, the hills a a glorious green now At our first regroup, a nice vista point Lots of great views on this loop Coyote valley looking southeast, Morgan Hill is a few miles further south.
Tempo Riding Using Heart-Rate Alerts
https://ift.tt/3rcmhih I did a three-hour ride today, and for the majority of it, I wanted to stay at a heart rate of 120, which is a brisk aerobic pace for me. I discovered my gps watch has “alerts” you can set, one of which is a heart rate range, so I set that for 116-122, and it beeped!! at me whenever I went higher or lower. This was helpful, I didn’t have to keep glancing at the watch to spot-check my heart rate. It turns out if my level of exertion is what I call “brisk but comfortable”, it reliably keeps me in the target range. This is enjoyable and relaxing, and also a good workout. For me, I also notice it corresponds to “ventilatory threshold 1” (VT1): the “talk test” is recommended for an easy pace. If you can sing, it’s too easy. If you can have a regular conversation, it’s just right for easy pace. As your pace gets a bit brisker you just start to notice a bit of a challenge on your breathing. That’s “VT1”. On the way back I threw in some 60-second sprint intervals and so...
Three-Hour Ride and a Visit To Aladdin
https://ift.tt/3l79pWP My Tuesday group ride was mostly in the rural area to the Southeast of Morgan Hill and down towards Gilroy. We did some nice cruising on the flat part before heading into the east foothills. There are some upscale homes with large lots in that area, and one of the owners has a camel named Aladdin. He’s mostly a (very large) pet, although he tries to earn his keep by mowing the grass. He’s quite a handsome fellow, with beautiful eyelashes that could get him a job as a Maybelline model. He’s also quite friendly and partial to carrots, which his owner doesn’t mind us giving to him. Heading East towards the foothills of the Diablo Range. You can tell I’m riding my recumbent and using my handlebar camera mount because it caught my foot out front pedaling Heading up Roop road into the neighborhood in the foothills where Aladdin lives. The Star of the show He takes the carrots very gently with his lips A couple of cows live with Aladdin. They are an Ethiop...
Fast Group Ride In the Hills
https://ift.tt/3reSiGL Yesterday I rode my upright bike (no electric assist) with my local bike group. We went up into the hills west of town on a beautiful late fall day. I was “feeling my oats” so kept up with the faster folks in the front, and it felt great. Going over the hill on Sycamore Road, about to drop into Paradise Valley The vines are reaching their peak fall colors More of Paradise Valley Chesbro Reservoir Rancho Canada Del Oro Open Space Parkng Lot, at the end of Casa Loma Road Fall color near home on my way back, with El Toro in the background
I Joined The Silver Stallion Century Challenge
https://ift.tt/3FyfBiC From People for Bikes : “SRAM generously offered to match our $5,000 donation to Silver Stallion Bicycle & Coffee Works if we can get 200 riders to ride 100 miles by the end of the month. That’s 100 miles total, not all at once. Silver Stallion is a small nonprofit bicycle recyclery based in Gallup, NM, serving Dinétah (the Navajo Nation) and the surrounding communities with a mission to empower and develop youth and young adult vocational skills in the bicycle repair and specialty coffee industries”. So I have to ride 100 miles by 11/30. I rode the first 42 mils on Thursday and Friday and will polish the rest today. It’s nice to have my exercise contribute to a worthy cause like this. Cottonwood Lake in Hellyer Park on Thursday Thursday, Out and Back to Hellyer Park on Coyote Creek Trail On Recumbent. Electric assist level 1 mostly. I was into a bad headwind and afraid I’d be later for an appointment on the way back, so I bumped up the assist. I was sho...
I’ll Soon Be Getting Bionic Eye Lenses
https://ift.tt/3cq9uQN I guess I didn’t have enough bionic body parts with artificial hips and heart valve, and screws attaching my rotator cuff. I just found out I need cataract surgery, so now the natural lenses in my corneas will be replaced by artificial ones. An optometrist had noticed what he thought was the beginning of a cataract in my right eye about 3 years ago. It must have progressed since then, as well as one forming in my left eye: in a recent visit to an ophthalmologist I found out I have fairly advanced cataracts in both eyes now. I knew my right eye was getting cloudier so I’m not too surprised. I’m getting my pre-op measurements done tomorrow, and I think we’ll be doing the right eye in January, and the left after the right one heals. Cataract surgery is a minimally invasive outpatient procedure. The natural lens is removed through a small incision, then a replacement “intra-ocular lens” (IOL) is deployed. I was given the choice of the replacement lens correcting ...
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Fun Ride on a Gravel ‘Bent
https://ift.tt/3oz8lfl My recumbent has pretty fat tires (45 mm/1.75″ in the rear, 38 mm/1.5″ in the front) and does surprisingly well on poor pavement or off-road. I certainly wouldn’t use it for a mountain bike, but it is equivalent to an upright “gravel bike”. I tried it out on some gravel and flat off-road as well as poor pavement today and it did fine. Today’s schedule called for easy day for the legs, hard day for the upper body, so I first did a warmup, then weights and resistance bands for the upper body, then went for my ride. Before this ride, I improved my electric assist a bit by mounting it lower, which lowers the center of gravity of the bike for better handling. The only place to put it besides a rear rack is under the main frame tube, but the seat clamp gets in the way. So I made a little bridge to clear the clamp, and the battery attaches to that. Some velcro straps serve as a backup in case the battery worked its way loose. Here is the finished product. I no lo...
Electrified ‘Bent
https://ift.tt/3C56iod I had previously put an electric-assist kit on my Trek hybrid, which I enjoyed for a couple of years. Then it kept working its way loose. This was a “mid-drive” kit, with the motor located where the cranks are. I could tell it was in danger of damaging my bike frame, so I took it off. I was able to reuse the battery from that kit and get an electric-assist rear wheel kit for my recumbent. A downside of a rear-wheel kit is that you lose a couple of gears because the motor takes up some of the available width. So my bike had nine gears in the back and now has seven. This is not a problem because the missing two gears were for climbing, and now I have assist for that. I’ve had this set up for a couple of weeks and love it. It really extends my range. For example, last Sunday’s 60-mile ride would have been doable, but I would have been pretty tired after. It was a breeze with the assist. Plus it is fun to cruise at a faster speed, it’s really easy to go 20 mph for l...