Biking Log: 35+ miles Silver Strand

This morning I intended to get up much earlier however I end up getting up around 8:30am and by the time I gotten ready and finally arrive in Silver Strand at 10am.

I started riding and keeping cadence at over 90+ and finish riding silver strand round trip in exactly 1 hour which was 17 miles. Then I meet up with James, John, and William and easy padeling for the next 18 miles since William could not go too fast on his mountain bike.

On the way back we saw a bunch folks were kite-boarding at Silver Strand state beach. It was interesting to see it up and close. This might be something we will considering doing next summer.

Total mile 35 miles.

MS Bike Tour Rider Check-in @ REI

Today I went to REI to do rider check-in which included signing the waiver form and pick up my rider number and goodies bag.

Also attend a safety class. and from the safety class, I've learned from Phil that a person can usually burn 700 calories in a hour of cycling but can only absorbed 200 calories per hour. It is important to monitor calories input and refuel every hours.

I also picked up a new a multi-purpose bike tool which contains 17 pieces of various bike tools.
Also a new drinking bottle to put energy drink and I will use my current bottle to store water.

I also receive a biking sock in the mail for meeting the minimal donation requirement by 09/30.

Biking Log: Indoor biking for 2 hours

Tonight I rode on indoor trainer for 2 hours while watching Entourage Season 3 in the garage.

Biking Log: 40+ miles from Torrey Pine to Ocean side and back.

This morning I started from Torrey Pine State beach parking lot and head north toward Oceanside. This was my first time riding along the coast which I was looking forward since a few weeks ago. I purposely skip Torrey Pine hill since I don't think I am quite ready for it yet.

Riding along the coast was nice and pleasant. Around Carlsbad I meet up with James and continue to ride north. It wasn't as hard as I thought to manage around the road traffics since there is bike lane for riding north bound.

We reached Oceanside and walk around on the pier for about 15-20 minutes and started riding south. Around Lucadia arera, there wasn't bike lane, so we have to ride around a lot of road traffic. (I think we missed a turn off somewhere).

By noon, I was really exhausted and just didn't seem to have energy to pedal anymore.
We stopped by Swamis Cafe to have brunch and finish the last 5 miles back to the car.

Total mile was 40 miles.

The Route
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Biking Log: Indoor trainer for 1 hour

Work is still going to be busy for this entire month and next. Daylight is getting shorter which didn't help my training. I decided to pick up a CycleOps Fluid2 indoor trainer so I can do ridding at home at night. I figure if I'm going to be watching TV, I might as well doing some ridding.

Spend about 30 minutes putting the indoor trainer together and setting the bike on it. I did about 1 hour of riding and couldn't seem to get my heart high enough. Not sure why this is the case.

Biking Log: 10+ miles from Carmel Creek Rd to Carmel Valley Rd.

I've been very busy at work this past week and by the time I got off work it was too late to go out to ride. I feel bad for not putting in any riding for the past week.

Saturday night, John messaged me and wanted to start biking. So we meet up and set him up on my mountain bike and we drove to Carmel Creek Rd Parking lot and start riding from there.

The long short, I ended up only putting in 10 miles of riding today which was not enough of ridding.
The important thing was that I didn't feel any more knee pain.

2nd Bike Fitting

Today, I went back to my bike shop and have another did another bike fitting.
The guy immediately thought that my seat was still too high over me and my knee was over extending. He made some quick adjustment by lowering the seat post and also move the seat forward or backward (I wasn't sure). I then rode on the indoor trainer for half hour to make sure the new fitting did resolve the knee pain issue and it seems like that was the case.

I left the bike shop and feeling much better and wanting to stop by Miramar lake to put in some miles however there was only less 1 hour of daylight left. I ended up going to Padres baseball game with James that evening.