Lake Geneva Pictures

Well, here are some pictures. I was able to convince my "Old buddy" from High School to join me for this ride. He is a natural athlete with lot of marathons under his belt. He was obviously concern about he weather and that this would be his first time on the bike since last septmember when he did a century by himself. Needless to say, he sure pulled ahead. Funny thing, as we are cycling he was behind me and I could hear him say " DANNY your dead meet" . After the first loop he was game for some more torture. WOW, what a trooper.
Sasha, one of my mentees really Rock those hills up. She had a perfect cadence and power to speed ratio and men, she always beat me up the hills. She is Awesome on those hills. GO SASHA!

Danny and Brian
Sasha's First flat tire on her new bike. We all pitched in to assist
Danny and my mentee Sasha - you go girl

TNT Lake Geneva Bike Ride

We went out to Lake Geneva for a 60 miles ride but ended up doing close to 48 miles. We did 2 loops around the lake but the wind condition was almost unbearable. with gust wind of 28mph it become quite difficult. Thank god for my new Trek Pilot 5.2. I manage to cruise at close to 10 to 15mph on my granny gears. Going up some massive hills were also a challenge. On this ride I used up every single gear I had. This is good for me since I am still getting used to the new bike. One thing for sure is that I have to take the bike in and shorten up the grip between my handle bar and the brake. It is way to far and such a strain on my small hands. They have it on order and hopefully can get it installed this Monday. I love the way the bike feels. Still a bit nervous going downhill. Trying to get the feel of a very light bike going down hills.
Going around certain sections of the lake was almost extreme where i had to ride at a 30 degree with some strong cross wind. Overall it was a challenge and good resistance training. I opted not to do the last little loop to complete the 60 miles. Below are some of the stats.

Map of our route, 2 loops around the lake

Summery data of the ride. Check out the wind
Elevation scale of the ride
Speed profile
Weather conditions.

The one thing I have to mention is that the TNT cycling team is such a bunch of encouraging and uplifting members. I am so impressed with all the coaches and member. We all did awesome and we were there for each other. What a team GO TEAM!!

Self Evolution Part 1

Ok, here I go again. Evolutionary process. Here I am with almost 2 week beard.

The beard is back!!!

Ah, now with the goat tee!!!

BIke Ride by the Lake #1 - 4/21/2008

Well on Monday, went out for a great bike ride. Felt really good. Here is the route I took by the lake. It was actually a mile to the lake from where now I work at. I did not start the recording from there.

The Route
Check this out. My max is 41.3? Can't be going that fast. This is the data from motionbased

Now this is more like it, according to my GPS my max was 28.8mph, more realistic

55 mile Bike Ride - Frankfort, IL

Map of our route, double loop

What a great ride on my first long bike ride on my new bike. It was so much fun. Great day, it was just perfect.

Here is some more data

Yeah! New Bike finally

Oh yeah, look at that beauty. Isn't she attractive.... Can't wait to ride her.

Finally got it. A brand new Trek Pilot 5.0 all carbon fiber with Ultrega components.

I am going to LOOK fast on this one.

Rock Climbing with the guys

Eric, Stobbe and Mark looking at Rock to climb
Eric at his best going up

Mark looking good going way up

We had so much fun rock climbing. Considering I was already tired from a 55 mile bike ride which I got lost, I still was able to handle the climb. I was more aggressive then before. Lots of fun.