After knocking out 600 miles in June, I fell off quite a bit in July with only 348 miles. Selling my house, moving up to Shingle Springs and riding in a completely new (and somewhat dangerous) environment caused the mileage to drop significantly.
Now it's August. Jenn is cool with me racing cyclocross again even though we know our baby will arrive sometime during the season. If I am going to do it, I need to get busy.
I rode from work up to my new home for the first time yesterday. I took the direct route up Green Valley Road and I will probably not do that again. During rush hour there are simply way too many vehicles going way too fast. It was very uncomfortable.
Today I took a different route through El Dorado Hills, which added more mileage (36.5 miles versus 32 yesterday) and climbing.
I don't know what the total climbing is, but our house is at 1670 feet and work is at about 70 feet of elevation. You climb over a number of hills with descents, so I am going to say around 2500 feet.
Working a full day and then riding home for 2.5 hours is pretty tough, but that's the only way I can get some real training in right now.
Later.
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