Later that week, after three years of talking about it, I finally got myself a road bike.It's a Carema Pro. It's a high end bike for a beginner, an average bike overall. I'm pretty frikken wild about it.
On our first short jaunt around the neighborhood, Rob was riding his ol' commuter bike, and I kept blasting by him howling with laughter. I could totally beat him! I had my garmin 405 gps watch and heart rate monitor (which I got for my birthday back in 2008) on, and I was barely taxing myself as I went 23-28 miles an hour! Woohoo!
At my insistence (and probably because he didn't like me going faster than him), Rob also got a bike. His is the man's version of my bike, the Strada. We took a short trip over to Target the other day, and I snapped a quick picture of our two bikes, below.
On or first ride out together, we went 16.84 miles with Speed: 1.06 (mi/hr) (min) 25.36 (mi/hr) (avg) 28.74 (mi/hr) (max). The route was Lafayette>Zanker>Trimble>De La Cruz> Lafayette. Yes, Rob is still way faster than me.
After getting all excited about bikes and shoes and peddles an whatnot, I'm still a little uncomfortable with traffic, and frankly, I'm not in great shape. I remembered that several of my coworkers had taken a six-week class with The Almaden Cycle Touring Club (ACTC). We joined the club, which has rides almost daily of all sorts of levels. We hope to take their six-week Bike Driving I class in February.
This is going to make 101in1001#19 bike 20 miles a breeze! And maybe that will help with two other goals:
101in1001#18 run for 30 minutes straight
101in1001#20 swim 1500m
And of course we had to organize them in the garage:
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