I set out to do a 4 hour ride. Now that it is getting closer to the "A" race the long distance training is becoming more important than the technique training. My goal for this weekend's ride is to do a 4-5 hour endurance ride. I am still in Swift Current and I know a lot of my teammates are up and at it early in Edmonton for a long ride. I felt the importance of getting this workout in, so I had no intrepidation getting on the road.
I woke early and quickly picked my gels and power bars for the ride after a quick breakfast of Kashi cereal with skim milk (not sure that I need to worry about low fat milk but that is what I usually have).
South out of town on highway #4 towards Cadillac. I was flying along pretty good and it seemed like a pretty nice day.
Coming on to two hours and 50K I decided to that was far enough and turned to head back.
I thought it was a cross wind but when I turned around it seems that it was a norwester. About 25km norwester that was a bit of extra work for me coming home.
My GPS watch battery died after the first hour and 20 minutes but I had the bike speedometer and it registered 101 K and 4:15 for the trip.
The fun part was that it was easy to get in a good, long ride without any interruptions.
Not a one, not even a stop sign...or a curve. You gotta love Saskatchewan.
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