First ride of 2005

I finally got out for my first ride this year. I have been doubling up the efforts. This week while I am off, I will hike and ride each day. I found myself to be quite tired after the short ride. There are no easy rides around home. Lots of rolling hills which means I am either coasting or creeping up the side with my heart thumping. I got in a 2 hour ride yesterday with a 4 mile up the mountain hike. I am supposed to get a call to go on a hike today. No candy or peanut butter the past few days but I have eaten bread. I have to cut that part out also. The next two or three days have rain forecasted. I hope they are wrong. I need to get a goal for the trip if I am to know if I am making progress. I had thought that I might get to where I can ride the Wiregrass road out to the mountain and up on top and back. That would be about 16 miles on a mountain bike. Hopefully that would be a good level to go road biking. But the constant pedaling of a road bike is a different thing. I need to get time in the gym on the Airdyne. Now the trick is, I won't be in a race with anyone. I will have all day to ride the 40 or so mile loop back to camp. One day is a 60 miler. Now with Florida, daylight begins early and lasts later than here. So I'd have 12 hours to do 60 miles. Average 5 miles an hour and you are there. Do 10 miles and hour and you can make it in 6 hours with several rest stops. Other than the pressure on the backside, it won't be that bad.