061209 Marbles Ride

061209 East Jester Trails Ride

Great old "new" trail ride today. I haven't ridden these trail in 15-17 years. I thought they had long since past, gone due to the development. I was surfing the web and found some pics and a map that a guy took last August. I headed out there to find the trail head and found it pretty easily. Turns out the majority of the East Jester section (aka God's Marbles) is for the most part intact. I took about 2 dozen pics on the ride. Ride was around an hour long, VERY hot ride. I blew thru 100 oz of water in that time!
As usual, I started my HRM about 20 minutes into the ride, here are the stats.

Time: 45 mins
Cal burn: 675
Ave HR 133

Distance: 3.07 miles Time: 1 hour, 9 minutes, 41 seconds

Avg Speed: 2.6 mph Est. Max Speed: 15.1 mph
Avg Pace: 22min 41s / mile Est. Max Pace: 3min 59s / mile

I know I said I would work out for the next 3 days regardless of rides, BUT I got a call from the wife during my ride - I was instructed to be home by 6 to meet some friends for dinner. I just got home around 9:15. My legs are pretty fried from the daily riding so I am relaxing.

I will get some riding and swimming in tomorrow. The boys and I are going to visit my parents. I'll do some laps in their pool and ride on Fort Hood for a couple of hours too. I will get in a weight workout too, most likely some jerks or cleans.

Sunday morning ride

Up at 7:45 this morning, had a protein shake (Pepto-Pro with Choc Soy Lite Milk) and a Clif Bar and then headed out. Started riding just before 9, rode Slinky. I rode solo again, since my friends are wussies and cannot get up early on Sunday.

I put in a little over 4 miles in 2 hours. I had a rough start, couldn't find my rhythm - I decided to start the lower section, but I inadvertantly took it in the opposite direction as intended - this made is a very difficult ride. Most of the 'features' in the lower section are intended to be approached from one direction, when you go in the opposite direction, many of the features are impossible to ride. Within 20 minutes of my ride I started bonking already, I was seeing spots, blood sugar tanked. I had to sit and have another Clif Bar (all out of Gu and the wife didn't find it on Saturday's grocery trip). After I collected myself I headed out of the lower section ASAP. It's hard to explain, unless you have ridden there you won't understand, but going the wrong way is a buzz kill bigtime.
Highlands and West - much better! The 'rule' of this trail is always go LEFT, as long as you go left and don't cut across these sections are great. I ran into (caught up with actually) 3 other riders. To my surprise I blew by them and saw them a few times, since the trail turns back on itself frequently. I took the trail all the way to City Park road and looped back. The 3 riders obviously turned back, because I caught up and passed them again. It feels like the way back take 1/4th the time that it takes to get to CP road, it's clearly a more direct route back, even though you join back up with the same trail for a while.

Path Track

• ~2 hours
• 1837 calories burned (seems insane, but my Timex HRM is consistent and when Nixon uses his Polar our burn is very comprable when we weigh the same)
• Peak HR 173
• Ave HR 127
• Shoulder is achy - caught myself falling by grabbing a cedar and uprooting it ;) also caught myself palm to the ground
• Knee is achy - I really think I kneed to go back to my ortho to check it out - same symptoms as when I had to be scoped - with the exception of the major stiffness after sitting
  

We have a Bday party to go to today, but I plan to do a Strength CrossFit workout today, and perhaps if the family (Wife) makes time, maybe a family ride at Brushy Creek.