Running... Biking... Swimming! That makes a Triathlon!

This morning my Daughter had her High School Cross Country team Triathlon to start the season.   I rode my Sweetie's bike(Mine has broken spoke) around to catch shots of the athletes on different parts of the course.   It was a rather soupy morning!  Going to be a steamy day!  I think everyone had a Great time!

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Start of the Race - Aundrea is in bottom right corner in Pink and Grey shirt

Bicycling portion around school 3 and a half times then on to the Pool!

Bike Convention!

Swimming their laps!

Cheerleaders!

Now off to work on repairing that broken spoke on my bike!

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*** Update ****

Broken spoke was on the back wheel on the gear side, so I ended up having to take it to Capp's Bike Shop in Topeka for repair because I didn't have tools to remove the gears.   Just returned and bike is all ready for this evenings ride.   Hope it cools down a bit!

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Riding = Fun. Walking = Not really

Broke a spoke.  Wobbling wheel.  Had to walk.

Unanimous vote:  The fun factor in walking is negligible. :)

~~H

My Sweetie accused me of pedaling under the influence until we discovered I had popped a spoke when I traversed a small canyon on my side of the Flint Hills Nature trail this evening.   Didn't want to damage my tube so I walked all the way back into town.  Just keep Walking doesn't have the same ring to it...  So I think I will avoid that in the future.

All that walking made me have to come home and hang upside down on my inversion table! :(  Which I do highly recommend to anyone who has had lower back pain issues.  Between it and some simple back exercises I have almost completely eliminated the pain that kept me bed ridden last summer for almost 2 weeks!

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Pedaling away the pissies

Today my workday made me cranky.  (Oh, who am I kidding?  Everyday my workday makes me cranky.....)

But my bike and a 10 mile ride on the Landon Nature Trail made me happy again.

A Spangles Mudslide with my sweetie sure didn't hurt, either.

~~ H

The Landon Nature Trail is a perfect place to ride on a 90+ degree day! It is shaded about 85% of the trail.  So it stays much cooler.  That is exactly why we picked it today.   Afterwards it was a treat to go have a Mudslide with my Sweetie.  Yes that is a Mudslide eating Grin!

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And BTW, we are neither Simon nor Blocker, nor did we attend their reunion in 2007.  :)
That's just a bright colored shirt we picked up at Goodwill for the sole purpose
of providing visibility while cycling.
SAFETY FIRST! 

  

Flint Hills Nature Trail -- K31 to Valencia

The nature trail was just too nature-y for me tonight. Rode 2 miles west from town but decided to loop around and ride the county road back into town. That was a two thumbs up decision as not one single flipping grasshopper flew into my face and not a single spider web pasted itself across my arms. It was also a smoother ride than the trail by riding in the tire tracks.

~~H

Yeah the Grasshoppers were a little thick on the trail this evening. They seemed hopping mad at us! :) Had one attempt to check out my tonsils. Luckily my mouth was not fully open! If you want spider webs you should ride on out further west!

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Sometimes its the simple things!

My sweetie this week scheduled to have the new Montague bike we picked up in Arkansas in for a tune up at Capp's Bike shop in Topeka. So while I was there I decided to take the rear wheel off my bike in to have them look at a slight wobble I had noticed. Turned out to be a Great decision! They had to realign the lock nuts so the bearings remained straight and it is a completely new bike. The first night we rode after getting the wheel back, we saw a 3 MPH increase in our average speed! The bike will actually coast down a hill now. So that pedaling we just keep doing got a little easier! S~~

Sometimes you gotta ride out half as far as you want to ride to force yourself to ride that far!

Tonight I wanted to ride 10 miles on this X-50 bike for the 1st time.   It is a little heavier than my schwinn was so its taking me a bit to get up to speed on it.   My Sweetie was feeling puny this evening so I had to ride solo.  So I rode out west from Osage on the Flint Hills Trail until my Map My Ride told me I had gone 5 Miles.  That turned out to be about half way between Docking and Davis Road.   I didn't stop to take any pictures,  so all I have is the log from Map My Ride. The spiders along the trail are probably cussing me because I cleared out a plethora of webs along my ride!


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Camp Alexander, Mud, and Mudslides!

Tonight we drove to Emporia hoping to ride a trail we read about at Camp Alexander.  Turned out to be too muddy to ride and also a little too truly off road for her taste.  So instead we decided to grab some dinner.  While searching out an eating establishment,  I showed my Sweetie my old biking course around town from when I went to ESU.  We stumbled upon Spangles which was having a special they called the American Classic combo.  A burger, fries, drink, and a Mudslide for $5!!  Yum!  We both ordered the special and Yummy it was!  There goes the diet!  Guess we will just have to keep on Pedaling!

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Classic American Meal Deal $5   Burger, Fries, Drink and a MudSlide!