Lots of Riding This Week – BionicOldGuy

I may have overdone the volume of riding this week, but the weather has been nice so it’s been fun. Last Tuesday we did a group ride in the hills East of Gilroy that started at the Mendoza ranch entrance to Harvey Bear park. I usually catch a ride up there from my friend’s house, but lately due to SI joint issues I haven’t been able to ride my upright on this long of a ride, and I was afraid my recumbent wouldn’t fit in her vehicle. So I rode the recumbent from home to the start, making this a total of 90 km (56 miles) for me (and 3 batteries). It was a great ride, though. From the valley this time of year, it looks really dry in the east hills, and it’s always amazing how pretty it is when you get up in them. On Wednesday I did one of my hard rides, 85 km in 3 hours 25 minutes, with a bit over two hours brisk tempo followed by some intervals and sprints. Thursday was a hard upper body session followed by an easy recovery ride, then Friday I went to a long brisk tempo ride of 3 Hours 20 minutes. Then yesterday was some easy arm-cycling and an easy recovery ride for a total of 70 minutes.