First Snow On Saturday, 51 Miles Road Cycling On Sunday

We got a wet half inch or so on Saturday.  On Sunday, by 10:30 AM the sun was shining, though it was cold.  The roads seemed dry outside my house.  So I bundled up for a road ride on my vintage 1986 Cannondale road bike.  I purposely inflated the tires 5 PSI low for better traction and headed for the hills.

Watchung Reservation had a lot of snow in the woods and it was really pretty up there.  The road surfaces were a wet in the hills for the first hour, so I was hesitant about descending fast, thinking that I might eat pavement by hitting some black ice or snow.  There were ice chunks falling from the trees that kinda stung when then hit me.

The roads were mostly dry after that first hour, and I felt good, so I decided to go longer than I had planned.  After a pit stop at a Lukeoil station for the bathroom and eating the Cliff Bar in my pocket, I felt even better.  I saw only about 5 other guys out there for cycling workouts, even though it was a very enjoyable day.

There is still a lot of salt on my bike in the garage.  Gotta get out there and wipe her down today.  Here was my route:

2010 Training Plans Sheet Issue/Error

There is a problem with the sheet in the Thinnmann Excel Training Log on the sheet tabbed as "TRAINING PLANS".

When you attempt to update it to 2010, this sheet does not update.

It can be manually fixed right now by copy and pasting from an older version of the file before it became interactive.

If you would like me to fix it for you, send me your copy via email and I will take care of it.

In the meantime, I will work on a fix and post it when it becomes available.

Obama and the Peace Prize

This is fantastic.  The world is certainly moving on from the Bush era.  It is looking like this year's Nobel peace prize is given in hopes for the future.  Hopes because President Obama has only been in office for nine months.  With so many negative things in this world that the media and people in general look forward to, I love this positive event.  Because what you think, you become.

Blogger back online?

Just wondering....

Believe In The Run

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Camp Clifton Reunion

 

As a result of Facebook, Camp Clifton - the camp I worked at from ages 14-24, is having a reunion.  How cool! 

You Heard it Here First

The producer is going to steal this from me, so I want you to remember that it was my idea that the title of the Lance Armstrong Comeback film and book should be "Around the World on 80 Bikes"

Pic from TwitPic

What A Bike for Lance's Comeback!

Issue with My Plans worksheet fixed in Training Log Forever Beta2

If you end your training weeks on Saturday, the My Plans worksheet was not moving data to the month sheets correctly.  Fixed by Mr. Trilott and now integrated with Forever Beta2.  If you don't end your weeks on Saturday, you don't have to re-download.  New version posted at 22:00 Eastern US time today.

2009 Updated & Corrected Training Log Version Available for Download

One error was found and corrected by Trilott.  If you downloaded the 2009 "Forever Beta" Excel Training Log version before 1:30 PM Eastern US Time on January 11, 2009, you may download the current version "Forever Beta1". 

The problem was the Summary Mileage Graph did not work correctly if you chose your training weeks to end on Saturday.  If this does not apply to you, and you end your training weeks on Sunday (the default) don't even worry about it.

If you do end your training weeks on Saturday, then download the newest version.

Enjoy!  Good luck with your training!