Crazy Cyclecross Ride

So Saturday I went on a crazy bike ride with a friend from work Trev. Trev is a CRAZY (double underline quadruple bold “CRAZY”) triathlete guy. He’s finished ironman three times (finishing 14th one year at Ironman Canada and finishing Ironman Hawaii) and has won at least 4 half-ironman’s. So basically a supreme athlete guy.

Anyway, at work on Thursday he said,

“Do you wanna go on a little cyclecross ride on Sat?”

I said,

“Um, how little is little?”

Trev

“Like an hour or two”

So I’m thinking this sounds ok might be a bit out of my league but apparently it was to be a relaxed pace.

Then he started the planning of what I was to wear.  Apparently I had the wrong stuff so he outfitted me with all the correct cold weather gear. And told me that we’re going with two other triathlete guys (one possibly crazier then Trev. Although, probably not in as good of shape, but still crazy).  So now i’m thinking I might be over my head.

Anyway, we headed out at 10am on a nice bike ride. I was planning on driving to the meeting location but apparently that’s SUPER dorky. who knew (just a little FYI)?

The route (for us Calgary people):

From our house. To the Extreme bean on Memorial. Across the bridge under Crowchild. Up behind Shaganappi golf course. Along some road south. Down to Weaselhead park. Over to the Native Reserve. Then back East.   Further south to the 22X. Further south. …. Then back.  Luckily with about 1Km to go (when I was dead tired) I had to go up a little sidewalk which was about 2 inches high.   And pulled a sweet endo.

Anyway, it was a total of 68.45 Km’s. Which isn’t really that bad but we only stopped 4 times. Yes, 4.   For a total of around 8 minutes.   How do I know the times?   Well, I have a GPS tracking thing for my bike (yes, I’m a dork). Take a look at the route we took. Kinda neat. And if you want to take a look at the other dorky stats that the GPS thing track you can simply click HERE.

Avg Speed: 22.8 Km/hr

Max Speed: 55.1 Km/h