I’m getting into my 2010 bike riding with a different mindset than in the the past few years. The most significant difference is the fact that I am now done my most recent round of education, which was a major impediment to a consistent season of riding. Admittedly, school should not equate to no riding, but for me working on school stuff made riding more rare than I would have preferred. So this season, instead of my usual go-nuts approach spanning a couple school-free months, I have this plan of sorts whereby I will actually work on some base mileage at the lower end of the saucy scale (low-sauce = Amsterdam commuter bike riding; high-sauce aka saucy = time trialing).

Today’s ride was another Saanich Peninsula outing. In case you haven’t noticed a pattern yet in my road riding, the Saanich Peninsula north of Victoria, is a popular destination; lots of good road with options to mix up the route a bit to keep things interesting. It’s also pretty flat, which according to my training logic makes sense for my early season base mileage. The weather was on the cool side today (about 7 or 8 Celsius – suck it central Canadians), but no precipitation. Karma will probably bite me tomorrow by way of crappy weather thanks to my slagging of central Canadian weather. No pictures today, but if it helps it was overcast with low cloud and the occasional sunny spot offering a nice view of the surrounding countryside, ocean, or mountain/hill.

Changes since the last ride: butt less sore; more distance; back less sore; able to push through some climbs a bit (for me this is about maintaining some momentum of movement – when I’m out of shape it’s like, hill starts and ‘bang’ I can’t turn the cranks without feeling like my feet are getting stuck in the mud at the bottom of every pedal stroke)

GPS Data: 90.6km – 3h15m – 27.9km/h – GPS Route

A base mileage road bike ride north of Victoria, BC on the Saanich Peninsula. Click on the map to see detail GPS information on the Garmin website.