Monday Night Bikes Etc. Ride

Me, Eddie, & Christine! It was a great ride. Eddie did the Bridge! Christine did the entire ride! I made a mad dash at about mile 11 and was never caught! It was a pretty good feeling!

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Seminole Wekiva Trail

Just me of course! I rode with a few people on and off on the trail. It was an awesome place to ride. I really enjoyed it!

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2010 Tour de Forts

Just me and Eddie. Had a really good ride! The weather was on the brink of unleashing the fury the entire time! So because of that it was overcast and beautiful. We rode with the Bikes Etc. folks, Mike, Jen, Liz, & Jim. Had a blast! Did the 61 mile route because the weather was threatening at the end. We only got sprinkled on a few times.

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2010 Tour de Forts

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Lunch Ride

Me, Kenny, Aaron, & Sean O’Riley did the 12 Mile Lunch Loop. I made a short cut and only did 11 because I was just doing a 15 MPH AVG recovery ride.

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Long Leaf Pine

It was very windy. I think it could have been the windiest I have ever ridden in next to the TDC Orlando. It was Me, Eddie, & Brian. Did a good 31 Mile, 18.5+ MPH AVG ride. Had a great time!

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St. Johns Loop

Tonight it was Me, Eddie, & Christian. We did a ~29 Mile loop that we had never done before! We held a good 18-20 MPH pace and had a great time! I will definitely do this loop or a variation of it a lot more!

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Monday Night Bikes Etc. Ride

Me, Kenny, & Eddie rode tonight. Dana wasn't feeling up to riding so she stayed at home. It was a nice fast ride, I killed the bridges, it was awesome and fast!

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Villano Beach Loop

43 Miles Villano Beach loop with Eddie, & Christian. It was a great ride! I took some pictures of Eddie attacking his first bridge. We averaged 18 MPH and had a great time!
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Afternoon ride with Eddie, Brian & 1/5 Dana

Ride started out with Me, Dana, & Eddie. About 1.5 miles into it, it became just me and Eddie! Dana was still really sore and didn't have her bike shorts so she decided to bail this time. But she still did really good. Me and Eddie rode to the back of Jim’s neighborhood and met Brian. From there we did a 16 mile loop down Long Leaf Pine and Veterans Pkwy. It was a really nice route! And man all i can say is that Eddie has improved dramatically!! And Brian is getting really strong! In total me and Eddie did 28 miles.

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Monday Night Bikes Etc.

The ride tonight was Me, Dana, & Eddie. We had a nice ride. For me it was a much needed recovery ride. We did the whole 20 Mile route this time and did it at 13.5 MPH AVG. Which is a great improvement from last week!! Next week will be even better! Dana is doing so good! Eddie is doing awesome also, he has gotten really strong!

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Tour de Durbin Crossing NFBC

Just me this morning. This was easily my fastest ride ever. I was running about 21 MPH and max AVG’s about 24 MPH. This was an awesome ride! 43 Miles.

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TDC Training Ride Part 2

This was a great ride. Eddie came out and did the 24 Miles option also, he would have done the longer route but he had an appt at the gym. Total ride length was 48.29 miles.

This was a very interesting ride. I saw a rider go down hard, I think her name was Rhonda. She also took my CCW class. She was riding along at the front of the pack pulling and she ran over a pad lock (like a master lock) When her front tire was on front of it she started sliding on it and went down fast to the left. She hit really hard i thought for sure she was hurt bad, but she hopped right up and was perfectly fine! That's it right… WRONG! Right after she went down I ran over something that i assumed was debris from her bike it ended up being the pad lock. It was bouncing around in the road after she hit it and it slammed right into my big chain ring and bent the crap out of it! I was fine for about 20 miles after the impact but, once we wound it up to about 21 MPH the chain started popping off of the ring. It ended up bending it so bad that i had to replace the chain and the big chain ring. Friggin sucks!

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Monday Night Bikes Etc Ride w/ Dana & Part one of TDC Bikes Etc Ride

So I kind of messed up the maps for this one somehow. The Garmin didn't auto reset like it always does. So when we rode Monday night it restarted on Saturday morning when I did the TDC Training ride.

So Monday night was Dana’s first real trip out! She did great! We went 17 miles and she averaged about 13 MPH. It was Me, Dana, Kenny, & Eddie in our group.

The second Lap in this link is the first part of the TDC training ride. Me and Eddie were the only ones that did this ride! If you look at the next Blog entry it has all the stats for the TDC ride.

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Lunch MTB Ride

Just me and Kevin today! We busted out the Mountain Bikes! It felt good to get back out in the dirt! We did a nice 7 Mile ride and found some good spots.

AC Skinner Lunch Ride

The ride today was awesome!!! We got Eddie back out with us!! We stayed together the whole ride which was awesome! It was Jim, Aaron, Kenny, Me, & Eddie. We went down AC Skinner and had a ~16 Mile ride. Only averaged 16MPH but it was fun, Eddie will be up to speed soon and will be hauling butt!!
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UNF Lunch Ride

Ride was a little chilly. With some 12-15 MPH winds. It was Jim, Aaron, Kenny, & Me. Took a new route through UNF. I enjoyed the change.
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Monday Night Bicycles Etc. Ride

No map or data tonight. I got the pleasure of riding a Tour ready bike!! I rode a 2010 Super Six with a total of about $8K invested in it. It was Mike's bike. The owner of Bicycles Etc. It was everything that I imagined an 8K bike would be! I loved the SRAM Red Shifters. The Carbon Wheels were amazing as well. I also really liked the 46cm bars so I ordered some 46cm Race X-Lite Blade Carbon bars. The ride was awesome! On the way out we just cruised at about 18. We ended up doing one bridge lap and let me tell you that bike can climb! On the way back Joe decided that he wanted to do a TT run. But I couldn’t let him break away alone. So I caught his wheel and 2 others also caught my wheel and 4 of us went all out and averaged 23.2 on the return 10 mile route!! 2 others caught up at the very end so they were hauling!!! And Kevin was right behind them!! It was a great ride!!!!
Kevin & Eddie Joined me.

Monday Night Bicycles Etc. Ride

The first Monday night ride of the New Year. It was a nice ride. We had about 15 people and 2 groups. We did one bridge lap and ended up losing track of a new to town female rider and we thought she got lost down town and it was getting cold and dark fast. We looked for about 20 minutes and me Jim and Kenny headed back while Sean and Joe stayed behind searching. Once we got back to the shop we found her there safe and sound. She had gone straight at the bottom of the bridge instead of turning and headed back to the shop!

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Solo Morning Ride

It was a pretty cold start. Low 50’s. I was nice to get back out and do my morning rides again. I miss them and hope that it will stay warm and I can keep it up.

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Long Lunch Ride

Forgot to start the data recorder right away. It was Jim, Aaron, Kevin, & Me. Kenny isn't riding at all this week. Ride was 12 miles. It was a fast ride with a lot of wind!
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