BLACK CAT TOUR DE CHICO

Well I was just thinking how fun it would be to have a BLACK CAT TOUR DE CHICO after the 1st of January.  It's a idea in progress.  This way everybody I ride with can see all my work around town and in Paradise and of course the ride would end with coffee.  ;)

This is a work in progress:

Chico & Paradise would be about 50 miles total.
And if I add on Orland that would  make it over 100.  But hey if people what to do 100, that could be a possible.   Maybe have three different route, easy, medium and insane.   So yeah I'll be playing around with the idea.  I think it would be fun.  Heck people drive around and look at Christmas Lights, so why not ride around and look at window paintings.       But I doubt I would have any bites for Yuba City?  LOL  maybe?

1 HR OF MAKING A RACQUET!

Well what can I say my legs were totally wigging out on me to move.  So when you don't want to ride into the wind, racquet ball really does the trick.    I really like to end my work out in the gym with racquet ball it feels really good to move around after everything.  
But I think I said this before I'm probably breaking every rule in the book.  I think I need to start watching some videos and at least learn what the rules are.   
I know exactly when my hour is up with out looking at the clock.  How?  My right leg in the inner thigh will start to make a light tingling feeling as soon as I feel that I know enough is enough.   Actually it's the same on a bike ride, but it's not that feeling.   I have my little mental flags that go up and tell me what I need to do and when I need to do it.  Yeah sound weird, but so far it's help me not hurt my self.   Because so far after 4 year of riding I haven't.    Racquet ball is not really that exciting to write about, because I'm standing inside a large box flinging my self around trying to hit the ball.  It's not like cycling were I'm actually moving along and seeing different things.    So it is what it is, but for 1 hour I lose 500 calories??   Well shit I just looked it up to be sure I was right and my Ugghhh.  The bad news is my brain is working perfectly fine by screwing things up.  The good news it's not 500 calories.  It's 1000 calories for my weight.  I got to redo my total calories burn, because it's even more. LOL    On that note my hubby is urging me to have my thyroid checked out again.   I did a while back and every thing came back fine, but he thinks it's strange that here I have been doing all this exercising, burning a shit load of calories and I'm only dropping 5 pounds a while back and now I'm haven't moved.   He calculated that I should have at least lost 11 pound.  Yeah I drink coffee, but we generally eat really healthy, and my hubby know how I eat.  It should be coming off.           

CRUSH RIDE PICTURE.

Well sense my camera died this was the only picture I could find.    I'm off to the far right.  Look for the cookie monster.  There was about 30 of us on this ride.   But come to thing of it there really was not any time to take pictures.    

51.9 MILES & CRUSHED BY THE WIND!

     Well only three people from the North Rim Group showed up that included me, the rest of the riders were lanky, decked out and speaking in cycling code. The weather was overcast, very windy and with a little bit of drizzle here and there along the way.  Other wise the prefect day to get my ass kicked out of left field.   This was truly a grueling ride.  From 1 mile out to the over pass towards Coal Canyon it was riding into a strong head wind and riding the hills first really took it out of me.  When I did the Crush ride in reverse I was able to build up to the hills, and still have energy to do a sprint toward the Midway.   Doing the hills first, holy shit)  yay there small, but there is a lot of them.  And mind you the first Crush Ride I did we at least rested about 3 times.  This ride we just stopped at the freeway pass.  When we were on the over pass we got a lot of friendly honks from the cars.  And on the midway too. That's 100% better than getting the loud horn and a middle finger.    

So yes I got dropped a lot, actually repeatedly.   The first drop was just before the high way pass going out to Butte College.  Then someone got a flat, so a bunch of them stopped and I would pass them.   Then I got dropped again pass the college. 

The gaggle of cyclist flew by me like I was sitting still and they continued straight ahead.  (????)   I was like I don't remember the Crush ride going that way.  So I followed a guy for a while and I did the route I remembered.  Of course I fell behind him.   Slogging along yet again the gaggle of cyclist passed me again.  LOL How many time can one person be dropped in one ride?   Lot's.    When I got to first and only rest stop on the overpass it was so cold, when your moving your body warm up and then when you stop burrrrrr.   

So after our break we headed off toward 99 and again a whole slue of cyclist got more flats, it steamed like they were dropping like files.  By default this was allowing me to not get that far behind.  So by the time I got to the midway and down a ways the first group passed me again and I got dropped.  I had to stop and take a break, my thighs were on fire.  I literally could feel all of October cycling & NS fitness.   So yes I am so sore.    So got back on my bike kept slogging and one of the guys ahead came back and what checking on the only straggler me, and he kept riding to see if the second group had caught up. They had not.   So make me wonder how many flats they had.  I road with the first group from

                                                                                    

Durham and yes I got dropped again, I was really tired.    I can do 40 and 50 miles, but add the hills and wind and it changed the whole dynamics of the ride for me.  

Considering my average speed isn't spectacular, but I was surprised I was in the 14.7 range.  It was in the 15 range, until I slow down and when home.   So 14.7 is better than 13.    In comparison my average speed on the last Crush Ride that was done backward was 16.1.  

I'm so sore.  The LDS ride is tomorrow, I don't think I'm going to do it.  :(     And like I said, been working out at NS and Yes I can feel it.   

NS FITNESS & A REVIEW OF OCTOBER.

As of today I'm going to regularly log my NS Fitness work out.   I've only longed a few, but as for November I'm going to log as much as I can. This ties into my cycling, me building up my core strength.  I do not have a trainer,  instead I am being my own trainer.  Kind of like I did when I started out cycling.  No one is going to hold your hand,  it's either you get your ass out there and train or you don't.
Well looking back on October I really did good.  So what I didn't make it to 500 miles...meh.  467.8 miles is just fine.

Calories Burned for cycling, spinning included............26,400
Calories Burned for working out..................................13,340
   Total Calories Burned for October.....39,740.
 Hell yeah!!!!!

So for the whole month of October I was in the gym 13 day and a total of 16 hours and 96 minutes.  So yes I feel good.

I finally found my limit to wearing my self out as in getting home and waking up sore the next morning.   The limit for me is working out in the gym for 2 hours and 30 minutes.  That is when I have to call it quits.

In other news I only have 731.81 miles to go, from 3,096.78.      

THE GLARE!

The glare.   When I got to the spot yesterday where we did the hill repeats there was this very skinny lady walking up and down the same block as I was riding up.  The first time she saw me she had a smile smirk on her face.  I can only imagine what was going through her mind.   Well after second and third lap she had nail for me.  By this time I had the smirk on my face.   Yes lady I look like this, I'm riding a bike that this and I can do this, so phhhttttt.   And after the next 3 laps she would spot me coming and avoided me like the plague with two wheels.  LOL    That reminds me of the lady who was cheering me on when I was doing laps up the mini hill or terror as I now call it.   This is when I was doing reps on a way smaller hill.   I was on my first lap and she was yelling "Come on you can do it, woman power"  After I when back down and did it four more time's her enthusiasm and smiles completely disappeared. And they all do the same thing they totally eye contact, but they do the side eye with a sneer.    Like WTF    Oh my god do I get this at the GYM.    LOL   But I'm not going there for them, I'm going there for me so LOL.    When people glare, stare and sneer that is my fuel.   I feed off that, because it proves them wrong.     
In other news I was going to join the spinning class this morning, but had a last minute change of plans, hubby want a ride to school.   So it's not the end of the world.   So today with just be a regular work out 2 1/2 hours of wearing my self out.   But I really have to admit I like doing the racket ball afterward, it fun and it my time to chill out while still burning more calories.    

19.3 NORTH RIM TRAINING AT NIGHT

 Decided to join North Rim Hill training tonight.  Instead of riding to North Rim it self I just road out from my home right there, I was a bit early so I was like why not I started to do reps on my own. I when around a total of seven times before meeting up with a lady named Jenni and her little orange cat named George, not George was not interested in doing reps with us, he just walk off indifferent.  Jenni and I did another lap together and as soon as we got to the top sure enough here come the cyclist lot's of cyclist.   I want to say almost 30.   We got the lecture from the guy in change and whats amusing is it's clip on's this clip on that.  I don't have clip on's.   So yeah.  Actually I was not the only one there with out clip on's, there was a young man with a prosthetic leg. Total respect. 
So we did the 4 reps around the big hill and then we moved on to another hill I have never been too, a bit shorter, but still hard, so we all did about 5 times around in a circle.    
  Now I can tell you it nerve wracking  going fast around a corner at night.  I was really uneasy, a guy when by me from behind me and it was just a little to close for comfort.   So yeah I didn't like that part, and another thing is I could not see my speedometer so I could not tell how fast I was going.  When I got home my max speed was 27.2 mph.  Eeeeeee Where did I do that?????

I got another back light :) from Bike Dr Mike.  Good thing, because the other one the battery just died.  And it was so dark I really needed it.   After riding in circles in the dark well all went home.  I followed the group back the way they had come and it was the first time going back to the park that way, well I did not know about these huge rock right next to the path and caught my peddle on one....Yikes.  I dislodge it and it

tumbled out behind the bike, I think it was a large pumice stone, it just sounded like pumice.   So head back home it's dark and everyone light are enough to make out where were going.  Becky light is so bight I mistaken it for a shooting star.   I can still see it.  Well as soon as we go to the park I said by and when straight into darkness.  HOLY SHIT, it's then I realised how week my light was, I could not see anything.  Don't get me wrong I'm glad to have a light, but I was totally caught off guard.  So I dropped my speed and was riding very cautiously.   Now when there was street lights I could at least see,

but riding down El Monte Drive was pitch black.     Here I am making my way and out of the corner of my eye I see a slow moving orange thing moving on the other side of the Road.  Hubby?????   Who else would be riding with a orange shirt.    So I slowed down and called out, sure enough worried hubby to the rescue.  He totally freaked out because I was not home in a timely manner.   So my hubby rescued me from the night.  We road really slow home and when I got home he even had a meal waiting for me.    Pampered by hubby.  <3 
So tomorrow is Spin class with David.   

In other new I now know that this Window Paining season is going to be wild.  So I'm going to do my best to keep up with the cycling if I miss some, so be it the same goes for the NS Fitness.   What I plan to do after the money start rolling in.  MONEY BATH!!!!!!   No.   Reality take care of the important stuff then.  Get a new front tire.  Have my bent derailleur looked at and check out this bad ass Jersey.  RAWWWWW!    This is mine.