Wednesday, April 27, 2011

2011 Mileage so far

Been using a spreadsheet provided by the Tidewater Bicycle Association to keep track of my totals for the year. Even though I use Motion X GPS on my iphone to track my rides, there is no way to see ride totals, mileage, speed, etc for all of my rides to date. The spreadsheet calculates average speed, max speed, average time, average distance, total miles, # of rides, total hours riding and # of days ridden. Results below are a combination of mountain bike rides and road rides. Totals for 2011 look like this so far:

# of Rides - 27
Total miles - 265.81
Avg Time - 1:03:40
Avg Speed - 9.7
Avg Distance - 9.8

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Getting Some Rides In

  Got in two decent rides in the last couple of days. Saturday I took the steamroller out for a 22 mile ride, the longest ride on the bike yet. Great ride and a pretty decent time, although a pretty fierce headwind on the way back did slow me down some. MotionX GPS output can be found here. I think I have the bike set up pretty much the way I want it with the exception of the freewheel, a white industries 17 tooth will soon replace the current shimano one.
Yesterday afternoon I got up with the 29er singlespeed posse, now officially named "More Beers - Less Gears," for some time in and around Seashore State Park. We parked outside of the park and took the main trail through about halfway until we reached a previously unknown and unmapped offshoot. What a great little trail, plenty of log crossings, tight twisty singletrack and up and downs. The end of the trail put us out on 81st street, after a hike a bike up the largest sand dune I've ever seen in VB. We took the access road back to the Park entrance on 64th, down through the park to the boat ramp and then doubled back on the main trail until we got back to car. Ride took us about 2 hours and a total of about 15 miles. MotionX GPS output here.