Novato to Tomales Bay Loop
This past Saturday, peliom came along on my bike ride and we did a loop in Marin from Novato to Tomales Bay. It was a great day! (though there were definitely more cars on these roads than on the Petaluma-Dillion beach route). The ride was 48 miles with about 1800 ft of climbing. This was also my last ride for the month of March which turned out to be a pretty good month. Aside from the week I spent out of town, I managed to get in the recommended 100-125 miles of riding per week. Yay! My training schedule roughly works out to this (on an ideal week)…
- Mon - 5 miles (commute)
- Tue - 6 miles (commute) + 45 min. swim (or weights if I don’t feel like getting wet)
- Wed - 25 miles (butter lap around the city)
- Thu - 6 miles (commute) + 45 min. swim (or weights)
- Fri - 5 miles (commute)
- Sat - 25-50 miles
- Sun - 50-70 miles (lifecycle training ride)
Of course I don’t always follow this to a T, but when I miss a day, I try to make up for it on another day. Mondays and Fridays are my “rest days” so sometimes I’ll drive to work on those days. Anyways, two more months til I ride down to LA. For the month of April, I’m supposed to bump up the mileage to 125-150 miles / week. I also signed up to do the Wildflower Century in 3 weeks on April 22nd. my first one ever!
The pretty purple flower looks like ice plant — brought over here from South Africa to stabilize soil beside railroad tracks, and still used by Caltrans on road projects…meanwhile the park service spends millions to remove it.