I just bought a speedometer/odometer for my bike last week. I partially used the trip as an excuse to buy it. It will be very handy, though. Today was my first time really using it. I wanted to do a test run to get a feeling for what the trip was going to be like. We're planning on trying to do the 800 km trip in about 5 days. I thought 30 kph would be a good goal pace.
My ride was going well until I got to the river. Somehow, both directions I went had a really strong headwind and I ended up going about 24 kph for a lot of it. That was pretty demoralizing. The city was the easiest part, despite the traffic and lights, because there was no wind. Without the lights, I would have averaged about 35 kph. If we do the trip in 4 days, that will be about 7 hours of biking per day at a pretty good pace. I did 2 hours today, and I was already starting to get a little nervous about the trip within the first hour. I was getting tired, my back was hurting, my butt was hurting, my legs were tired. That's not a good sign. I need to start training more. I don't think I could do today's workout 3 1/2 times per day for 4 days in a row right now.
At least I'll have much more motivation when I'm there: http://www.braun-rentacar.com/add_images/similan3_2.jpg.
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i just bought a nice bike too, im not as hardcore as you but thats nothing new. scott made me go 20 miles with him on sunday and im still sore. how is the japanese going? sayonara.
What kind of bike did you get? I think it's much easier to get in shape on the bike. It does less damage to your body, so it's easier to recover, and easier to burn more calories. It's much more common to go on an intense 2 hour bike ride than an intense 2 hour run.
Japanese is going very poorly. I have spent virtually no time trying to learn it since I moved here. I haven't been conversing in Japanese at all with anyone. I hope things start to change at some point, but they're not going to anytime soon. For now I'll just be a stupid foreigner.
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