Not much happened today, unless you want to hear about my New Year's Day training ride. It was 112 miles of fun and frolic through the extreme northwest corner of Louisiana and through parts of East Texas. I hope I can walk like a normal person tomorrow. The destination was Jefferson, Texas and by the time we arrived at the convenience store in the middle of downtown we had already covered 53 miles...only 59 left to go. This ride was mainly to get some quality miles and saddle time (yeah, about 6 hours and 34 minutes of butt-to-saddle time) and speed was not an issue this time. I did pretty well for the first 80 miles, eating and drinking when I needed to, but the legs don't have much in them yet and the last 32 miles were tough. I think the average speed came out to 16.7 mph after we had hit a high of 18.3 mph before I lost the lead riders. It was nice to finished and get a shower! Tomorrow morning I'll decide if I want to do another long ride...but don't bet on it! I really need to recover for the duathlon on Saturday.
Jonnene did a 26-mile new year's day ride with the local bike club, an annual tradition that's been going on for...well, a lot of years now. They head out to Waskom, Texas and back, then it's off to a local Mexican restaurant to reload the calories!
And that's about it! Happy New Year to everyone and I wish you all the best.
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