Speed on Planks vs. Speed on Wheels

By: In: Biking, Off Season, Skiing

Here is the map of my 2011 biking season high (in terms of miles spun):


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Hmmm, for some reason (I would call it a software defect), Google wants to show the area north of my ride rather instead of my ride. Drag the map upwards to bring my ride into view.. Note to Google QA team: time to file a defect!

The hard numbers are :

  1. Total Distance: 19.2 miles (30.85 Km)
  2. Maximum Speed: 29.7 miles/hour (47.73 Km/hr.)
  3. Elevation gained: 1,052 feet (321 meters)

This top speed is entirely consistent with maximum speeds I get on my bicycle, seem rather slow in comparison to the near 60 mph I get on my K2 planks, no?
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Warren Miller HAD Best Beware!

By: In: Biking, Off Season, Skiing

Here you see my first composed video. I have posted video here before, most of it videos from YouTube created by others or my raw camera video. However, here you see video composed of scenes I recorded and then put together and edited!

The music however comes from the Grateful Dead’s July 17, 1989 Alpine Valley (which doubles as a ski resort during the winter) appearance and is the opening song from that show Let the Good Times Rolls, a show which I WAS AT!

The first scene is a bike ride I took on the nearby Wiouwash trail, cold day and I caught a long nagging and nasty cold from it. The second scene recorded in my brother’s car on Vilas County HWY A on our way to Ski Brule. The third scene is me skiing down Ski Brule’s Big Bear and this is my second ski film attempt, this time I hang the camera from my neck and tuck it into my jacket. I had to tuck it in because untucked the weight of the lens causes the camera to point at my ski tips and that makes for rather uniteresting video — which happens in the second ski scene skiing down Brule’s Otterslide.

The last scene is our fireplace at home and the credits. The snippet is only about 10 seconds or so of video and I repeat it a number of times.

Nothing spectacular, just something else for me to learn and try to apply to promote the efforts of myself and others!


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First Bikeride

By: In: Biking, Off Season

Here is my first bikeride of this season.

Not so flashy as my ski tracks, but there is some up and down on this trip. It was a nice sunny day today. I went to town bought some bike-clothing to keep me warm on the ride. I did not go for the Wiouwash Trail as it is still snow covered from our last blizzard, I am hoping it will be clear soon.

Not bad in any way shape or form for my first ride, sunny, cool but not too much so, and the wind was not all that bad but definitely felt on the return leg. The drivers on this stretch of road were courteous and gave me lots of room.

The coolest thing about this ride was seeing a muskrat in a ditch. I saw it out of my periphery and then turned my head and I heard the telltale sound of a rapid dive.


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Sprint Coast Rest Repeat

By: In: Biking, Off Season

I hit the Wiouwash Trail again today. It was a couple of days since my last ride, biking for big guys like myself can be traumatic to certain parts of the body. Two things, sitting in the saddle and the constant and nearly non stop rubbing of body parts, forget about the normal fatigue that out-of-shape guys like me experience.

I hit the trail and focused on a few things.
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First Ride on the Wiouwash Trail

By: In: Biking, Off Season

It feels good too!

My first ride of the season happened today (Tuesday April 13). I picked up the bike and ran some other errands and returned home dropped off that stuff, got lunch, ran some more errands.

I came home and busted out my bike gear and got back in the saddle.
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