One hour ride near home
This week, the training plan has us building up ride times with two one hour rides during the week and an hour and a half over the weekend. Jacob was home sick Monday and Tuesday, so we didn’t get to ride either day. Today we got in the first hour.
We rode out to the main street through our development, did three laps of that (3.5 miles each) and then headed home. Total ride time 61 minutes for an 11.1 mile course with 3 stops for water.
Spencer was using his clipless pedals for the first time on the solo bike. He had a couple of spills at stops, but not from the pedals. He keeps trying to keep the bike totally vertical when he puts a foot down, so a tiny loss of balance topples him. I’m trying to teach him to lean it a little. Besides that his bike handling skills are excellent. He’s better than a number of adults I’ve seen.
We’ll probably hit the Veloway again on Saturday - time depending on the weather and our plans. Can’t be interfering with the Clone Wars birthday party (time TBD) for Spencer’s friend Oliver….