he does go hard.
my plan for the day, because it was cold, was to just kinda sit around. maybe learn some german.
paul called at 1 30 asking to go biking, of course i cant not go!
we started out going a new direction out of paderborn, due to the fact that i dont know where north is yet. i dont know which direction it was. anyway we went straight towards the hills today. i think paderborn is a bit higher than the surrounding area cause we hardly went up at all and we were as high as it allows i think. all around there were tons and tons of windmills. probablly bigger than carletons even. but we took a route that went into a valley, though the country. it looked like a totally different place the other side of the hill. was really nice. then we started to climb in the forest. not steep, but pretty much always up. and up most of the hills we went fairly hard eventually we broke out into a new field of windmills where there was lots of snow too. thats where these pictures are from...
Paul with a few of the windmills. (both sides of rd, many far away too)
me and windmillsafter the windmill sector we went down a nice long hill. what goes down must go up! so id say 10 k after the long down hill and weaving through the cities we got to some switchbacks...the whole time since the top of the downhill we had been going fairly hard,taking turns pulling, and on the hill we went really quite hard. it hurt. prob. around 4 km id say. and pretty steep! finally a hill! and paul is a good climber, so we traded off pulling the whole way up too. at the top we eased off for about 5 min, then picked it up quite alot for another 15 or 20 min. then we finished that and went easy the last 6km back to Paderborn. Paul was happy that i was able to keep up and pull and all. said it will be very good for training. horray! a hard bike ride today though. felt good.
64 km
2 hr 22
avg HR 145 with max of 186.
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oh yeah, the first day i ride with brandon since he purchased a new madone, i get him on the hill sprints and only lose the northfield town sprint by a throw. maybe he should switch back to his old bike that he was dominating sean and i on. hahaha.
alone on the Klein with wide tires since the roadway looks like a gravel pit, out Jean Duluth, E on Zimmerman and back by way of N. Tischer, Roberg and, Lester River. I thought about coffee on at Superior St. but its cheaper at home. 1:27 with a nice hillclimb up 36th Ave E and only a short patch of snow on the Aspen walkway, 51 degrees
then hockey tonight against the former Pros, sort of a hockey lesson rather that a game. New stick, carbon fiber, 420 grams, my only score at the state tourney.
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