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Past Month In Review – May ’14
To summarize… purple is the enemy, and there’s way too much of it! I was surprised with the amount of red that is shown on here; much more than I expected, so that was a nice change. Sorry there’s not more blue though :-/ Even though some things are out of proportions and I hope to correct that within the next year (most likely after our XC tour now…), I had a lot of green, blue & red fun with you this month!
Oh, and I promised you I would show you this (below) when the month was over, and I figured this was a good time since I already put one calendar in this post. Anyhow, you’ll see that I fell just short of 500mi for the month, on paper at least. I might have missed a short ride here or there, but regardless it was cool to see how many days I was able to ride this month. Hope we can keep it up… our monthly totals next Spring will be well over 500! 🙂
Gear Consideration
Lots of decisions to be made, and lots of money to be spent…
Bikes
- Comparison Chart
- Website links
Pedals
Pannier Racks
- Old Man Mountain
- Scandanavian Steel Rear Rack
- Blackburn Outpost World Touring Front Rack
- Surly Nice Racks
- Tubus Cargo Evo
- Tubus Logo Evo
Panniers
- Arkel Bike Bags
- Ortlieb
Tent
- Nemo
- Losi 3P
- Losi 2P
- Obi Elite 2P
- Galaxi 2P
- Big Agnes
- Slater UL2+
- Copper Spur UL2
- Fly Creek UL2
- Fly Creek UL3
- Slater UL3+
- Copper Spur UL3
- MSR
- Hubba Hubba 2P
- Mutha Hubba 3P
- Nook 2P
- Elixir 2P
- Elixir 3P
- Carbon Reflex 2P
- Carbon Reflex 3P
- Black Diamond
- Skylight
- Mountain Hardware
- Super Mega UL2
- Skyledge 2 DP
- Skyledge 3 DP
- Sierra Designs
- Lightening 2 UL
- Flash 2 UL
- Flashlight 2 UL
- Flash 3 UL
GPS
- Garmin Fenix 2
- Suunto Ambit 2
- Garmin Edge 500
- Garmin Edge 510
- Garmin Edge 810
- Garmin Edge 1000
- Garmin Edge Touring
Lots of saddle time this week
Although this weekly mileage is nothing compared to what we will be doing during our XC trip, I’m pretty sure it’s my best yet (like, ever). If I could have a few more weeks like this, I might even give Andy a serious run for his money sprinting to town lines!
Also, I learned something new… you don’t need to create a map to log a workout on MMR. For little rides like between the hotel and the ferry, I just entered distance and time instead of creating a lame map that would probably never get used again.
Anyhow, I’m looking forward to the next ride: North Shore Tour de Cure! Everyone will be wondering why I’m with the Oracle team but not all swagged up in Oracle gear… ha!
Get excited…
…for our ride coming up on Saturday, the 2014 BikeMS: Ride the Vineyard!! And since yesterday it’s official; I miraculously made it to the minimum fundraising goal of $250.
Anyhow, I found a route on MMR, which was probably the 60 mile ride of years past, but I’m assuming this years is very similar. Looks like it will be great. Just keep your fingers crossed that the weather will turn out well for us, looks good right now 🙂