Team 2 - June Challenge (Page 5)

Tri-ingToTurn40 - 2010-06-03 10:49 PM OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG!!!!!!11!1!1!

Okay. So I posted earlier today that was going to go biking this evening, but that I was not going to work on my challenge goal of getting my short route (aka oasis route, aka 15-mile route) under one hour. Instead I wanted to go on a long ride and explore.

Well, the route I took went to the oasis, then up through a couple towns, out and back on a crushed limestone trail, back through those towns, to the oasis, and then back home.

Get this! My time from home to the oasis was 27:30. That's good, and I almost turned around right there to try to get home in under an hour. But what if I didn't make it? Then I would have given up my long ride and not made the oasis goal. I decided that I have the whole month ahead of me, I should just enjoy the ride I had planned.

But… On the way back I stopped and checked my time at the oasis. 1:52:45. Of course I recorded my time when I got home. 2:24:19. That means it took me 31:34. Add that to my home-to-oasis time and its only 59:04 total!

That means I met my to-oasis-and-back-sub-one-hour goal... with an extra 1 hr 25 min ride in the middle!

pdbman - 2010-06-03 6:19 PM
I'm going to have to change it and replace it with a leg picture after last months challenge.

ashort33 - 2010-06-03 5:08 PM

Everytime I look at your avatar, I think Arnold is disappointed in me because I didn't work harder today! 

Tri-ingToTurn40 - 2010-06-03 8:49 PM OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG!!!!!!11!1!1!

Okay. So I posted earlier today that was going to go biking this evening, but that I was not going to work on my challenge goal of getting my short route (aka oasis route, aka 15-mile route) under one hour. Instead I wanted to go on a long ride and explore.

Well, the route I took went to the oasis, then up through a couple towns, out and back on a crushed limestone trail, back through those towns, to the oasis, and then back home.

Get this! My time from home to the oasis was 27:30. That's good, and I almost turned around right there to try to get home in under an hour. But what if I didn't make it? Then I would have given up my long ride and not made the oasis goal. I decided that I have the whole month ahead of me, I should just enjoy the ride I had planned.

But… On the way back I stopped and checked my time at the oasis. 1:52:45. Of course I recorded my time when I got home. 2:24:19. That means it took me 31:34. Add that to my home-to-oasis time and its only 59:04 total!

That means I met my to-oasis-and-back-sub-one-hour goal... with an extra 1 hr 25 min ride in the middle!

kimk - 2010-06-03 10:27 PM yep! we are still waiting!

pdbman - 2010-06-04 6:48 AM
Congrats! Are you going to set a new goal to replace it? 

Tri-ingToTurn40 - 2010-06-03 9:49 PM OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG!!!!!!11!1!1!

Okay. So I posted earlier today that was going to go biking this evening, but that I was not going to work on my challenge goal of getting my short route (aka oasis route, aka 15-mile route) under one hour. Instead I wanted to go on a long ride and explore.

Well, the route I took went to the oasis, then up through a couple towns, out and back on a crushed limestone trail, back through those towns, to the oasis, and then back home.

Get this! My time from home to the oasis was 27:30. That's good, and I almost turned around right there to try to get home in under an hour. But what if I didn't make it? Then I would have given up my long ride and not made the oasis goal. I decided that I have the whole month ahead of me, I should just enjoy the ride I had planned.

But… On the way back I stopped and checked my time at the oasis. 1:52:45. Of course I recorded my time when I got home. 2:24:19. That means it took me 31:34. Add that to my home-to-oasis time and its only 59:04 total!

That means I met my to-oasis-and-back-sub-one-hour goal... with an extra 1 hr 25 min ride in the middle!

Tri-ingToTurn40 - 2010-06-04 9:57 AM
 My challenge goal for the month was to do the oasis route in less than twelve parsecs... I mean in under an hour... twice in the month of June. So I don't feel then need to set a new goal--besides I still have my run and swim goals to work on.

In fact, I have decided not to count this ride toward my goal of doing it twice. I thought I wouldn't, but then my husband talked me into counting it. Then I thought about it some more and talked him into convincing me I shouldn't. See, the goal is to get that particular route under one hour ride time--just enough break at the oasis to stretch and chat with whomever else is there. (My July goal will be to get total trip time under an hour. ) The extra riding (notwithstanding the challenging crushed limestone and gravel sections) could conceivably have worked as a recovery between the two oasis legs.

I feel really good about this ride. I really pushed myself on the last leg (and several other parts of the ride), which is something I typically don't do. This a big a-ha breakthrough for me.

So it ends up not being directly part of my challenge goal, but it is related and I just really, really had to share. 

D001 - 2010-06-04 10:24 AM Please welcome Triathlon Chick to the team!

ashort33 - 2010-06-04 11:16 AM

WELCOME TRIATHLON CHICK!!!!!

ashort33 - 2010-06-04 11:17 AM

4k POSTS!!!!

crimefighter2 - 2010-06-04 12:15 PM

woohoo!  just under a k away from being a race!

Tri-ingToTurn40 - 2010-06-04 10:57 AM
 My challenge goal for the month was to do the oasis route in less than twelve parsecs... I mean in under an hour... twice in the month of June. So I don't feel then need to set a new goal--besides I still have my run and swim goals to work on.

In fact, I have decided not to count this ride toward my goal of doing it twice...

I feel really good about this ride. I really pushed myself on the last leg (and several other parts of the ride), which is something I typically don't do. This a big a-ha breakthrough for me.

So it ends up not being directly part of my challenge goal, but it is related and I just really, really had to share. 

D001 - 2010-06-04 9:24 AM Please welcome Triathlon Chick to the team!

Artemis - 2010-06-05 10:50 AM Swam and biked today.  I think I need a nap now.