Accent Fitness

Christmas Eve Day Ride

No better way to anticipate Santa's arrival then a 4 hour, nearly 60 mile bike ride after taking a  2 month break from riding.  The highlights of the ride was  seeing Santa in full suit on a bike.

BIKE: 56.87 miles. 4 hours. Christmas Eve Day Ride

70 miler ride with Bronwyn and Katie

Great Saturday for bike riding in the Portola Valley.  The girls finally got reunited to ride!

• BIKE: 70 mi. 4:34. 70 miler with Bronwyn & Katie
• RUN: 3 mi. 30 minutes Post Long Ride Run with Bronwyn

Katie, Marlene, Bronwyn

The Cervelo bike show

VIDEO: 2011 Vineman Full Aquabike

Read about my race here!

Long Weekend Rides

Some good ones leading up to Full Aquabike, which is manana!

First Time up West Alpine: 35 minutes up Kings! New record for me.

Marlene & Ashley cruising the Portola Valley: Up OLH at conversation pace in 28 minutes!

Marlene crusing Portola: Post Regional Race recovery ride

Blue Bomber Inaugural 4th of July Ride

I took the Blue Bomber out for her first official ride on the morning of July 4th.  It was amazing how nice and different it is to ride a real road bike, instead of a tri-bike.  Don't get me wrong, I love the Rocket but it is not much fun going up the hills.  I only went over to the coast twice in the Rocket twice this season because it was such pain to get back over the hill.

For this first ride on the Blue Bomber, I decided to tackle all of the major hills.  Starting up Old La Honda, then down 84 to Pescadero, up the Pescadero creek hill, then up the 1 to back over the mountain via Tunitas! Finished with a decent down Kings.  It was so much easier to handle the bike on the hills.  And how nice to be able to climb with a candence in the 70s and 80s, on a 8% grade!  On the Rocket, above that grade puts me at a 50-60 cadence.

Blue Bomber Inaugural Ride on July 4th: 57.44 miles. 4:23.