Windy, but nice

This evening I was back in the saddle for a slow, longer ride. Tonight I rode for almost 55 minutes, and 13.5 miles. Overall I now sit at almost 2 hours, and 28.6 miles. Today I just wanted to keep a nice pace, and work on building up my base. I've learned a lot over the past few days. One important thing that I learned is that you don't have to go all out on every ride. In fact, there are barely any benefits to doing so. You don't always need to feel the lactic acid building up in your legs to make progress. I kept a fair decent speed throughout, and with the route I took I didn't have to stop all that much. Just once at a stop sign, and twice to walk over the railroad tracks. Other than that I had to take on one relatively small hill, and some nice corners as I worked my way out into the "country".

Only one group of people yelled at me today. They were obviously teenagers, and I didn't think anything of it. I didn't even acknowledge their presence, which is the best thing to do to people who do things like that, in my opinion. On Saturday someone threw something out of a SUV window at me. So I'm starting to get used to how a lot of people feel about cyclists in this part of the world. Heck, there are a lot of people that don't even feel cycling is a sport.

I am well on my way to acheiving my goal for this week. I set it low - at 50 miles. I want to see how my muscles react to this before I set any goals for next week, but from how I feel right now it will certainly be higher. My muscles are feeling great right now. For many reasons, flexibilty improvments, injury prevention, etc, I am going to incorporate a little more yoga into my stretching/relaxation/regeneration routines.