Posted by Daniel Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:18:19 GMT

After six days of riding, I’m definitely “appreciating” this rest day. [I was going to write about my 70 mile week… I managed to ride four days out of five, which for me seems to be some sort of miracle. I also increased the ride length a bit to about 19 miles… another small step. A couple weeks ago I glanced at the average MPH for my ride and most days sits around 15mph. A little slower if I do the hills more, a little faster if I’m feeling motivated and riding the flats. And while all of this is good progress, and I’m within a pound of where I was for most of the winter (after having a disastrous spring where I put on 17lbs with what seemed like one evening of Chinese food), I can’t help sighing over the riding of others, even though I know folks like Seth have put the miles in to be where they are. There is no magic, you just have to put in the miles, and in my case, I still have plenty of weight to drop. So far, I haven’t felt like I’m losing weight, just making up for lost ground. Soon, I hope to be breaking new territory. I’m riding pretty well, although I’m fighting to find a comfortable saddle. It’s better than it was before, but there is still a spot that gets er, um, annoyed after I’ve been riding for about 45 minutes. Sometimes it passes after that, sometimes it doesn’t. It doesn’t last off the bike, so I may have to work through it, wait it out, etc., but I’m still looking… suggestions welcome. At the moment I’m using a Fizik Arione. The problem is only on my left side, and it was what drove me to look at saddles in the first place. Anyway, no riding until Sunday, where I hopefully start the cycle again… and make it five in a row.]
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