Journal of a Sysadmin

5km run, a little bike and a little abs

37 minutes total.

5km run was 25m 10s which would be great to carry out to 10km, but on the track 10km might really suck.

First bike ride at the res. this year.

The pathways down by the sailing club are closed, so I went from home to the sailing club then back today instead of going all the way around as planned. For the first ride of the year, it was a great morning to do it.

Total Time 0:47.54
Total Distance 18.58 km
Average Cadence 83 rpm
Average Speed 23.2 km/h
Odo 438 km (from 325 km)
Max Cadence 103 rpm
Max Speed 42 km/h

Bike downtown

Through North Glenmore park then down to Sandy Beach, through to 4th St. and downtown. Along the river to Edworthy Park up the hill and home.

Great ride!

Total Time 1:29:51
Total Distance 32.76 km
Average Cadence 81 rpm
Average Speed 21.8 km/h
Odo 383 km (from 351 km)
Max Cadence 109 rpm
Max Speed 47 km/h

Downtown Ride

Ride downtown, around through Edworthy Park then home again.

Work Rides

Finally I get to go for a ride.  Life has been so crazy lately (home and work colliding with force enough to cause the two to sublimate in my mind, the mixed gasses blending to form a blur about 4 weeks long) that I haven’t had time and energy at the same moment enough to go for a ride.  Thursday I finished the last of my listed important stuff at work which means I am now free when baby comes.  Due to a 36 hour long stretch I decided to take Friday off and managed to get about 11 hours sleep.  Last night, almost the same and today I finally feel human.

So given all this I need to first dump the past 5 weeks of bike info then I am ready!
Total Time 3:35.18
Total Distance 83.44 km
Average Cadence 80 rpm
Average Speed 23.2 km/h
Odo 325 km (from 242 km)
Max Cadence 114 rpm
Max Speed 45 km/h

One day, three rides!

This morning I rode to work (as I always try to) but this afternoon I rode from work, around the reservoir and home.  I got to try out my new MEC shirt (red, short sleeved bike shirt) and that worked really well, much cooler.

Then tonight after I got home, my youngest son asked if I wanted to go with him for a short ride and of course, I had to say yes!

Around the res:
Total Time 0:50:54
Total Distance 20.34 km
Average Cadence 84 rpm
Average Speed 23.9 km/h
Odo 236 km (from 215 km)
Max Cadence 108 rpm
Max Speed 47 km/h

Short ride after I got home:
Total Time 0:18:35
Total Distance 5.84 km
Average Cadence 75 rpm
Average Speed 18.8 km/h
Odo 242 km (from 236 km)
Max Cadence 125 rpm
Max Speed 36 km/h

It’s been a good couple of days for riding, and I would like to keep getting at least 3 rides in each week from now until the end of September.

Heart and Stroke Ride for Heart

Today was a good day to ride (I wish I knew Klingon).

From North glenmore Park, along the Elbow River, past Stanley Park and then past the turn around at Lindsey Park (wait, I’ll get to that in a second), up Scotsman’s Hill, down spiller road, across 9th Ave, east to the Zoo Bridge, Turn around, go back to 9th Ave, follow that to the West side of the Elbow River, and follow the bike paths back to the water treatment station by the dam on Glenmore Reservoir, over the dam and around the Reservoir back to the starting point!

So, about that little thing with the turn around. On our way out we’re riding along see a “Rest Area” (that’s what the sign said). Since we were ok we kept on riding. The map said that we would be going down to the zoo, crossing the Bow River and then coming back. 9th Ave. was involved at the very least. Turns out they cut that end of the ride short so the actual ride couldn’t have been much more than 33km from start to finish. We did 41.37km… umm, oops

I also rode from home to North Glenmore park and back after the ride so my stuff below shows the ride and the ride home, I cleared the comp before we set out from the starting line… My comp now says 46.33 and I know the ride was 41.37. Total (if I add in the trip to north glenmore park) would be 51.29km! Real total time was about 2:21.
Total Time 2:09:04
Total Distance 46.33 km
Average Cadence 77 rpm
Average Speed 22.4 km/h
Odo 215 km (from 163 km)
Max Cadence 118 rpm
Max Speed 49 km/h

Empty the bike computer

Tomorrow is the Ride for Heart and Stroke so of course, it’s going to be about 50km with the ride down and back added in.  This means I have to dump what’s on the computer from the past week of work rides:

Total Time 0:27:23
Total Distance 10.26 km
Average Cadence 79 rpm
Average Speed 22.4 km/h
Odo 163 km (from 153 km)
Max Cadence 110 rpm
Max Speed 45 km/h

There are also a couple of rides that I didn’t have the comp on but oh well.

Saturday bike ride

OK, the hill at Edworthy park is good once but nice twice! From home, down 45th, down the hill, over to Crowchild Trail and back to the park, then up and back down the hill before riding home.

work rides

clearing the bike comp for a good ride today