Awesome weekend! Finally.

Rochester Flyers is NOT Rochester Minnesota's bicycle messenger service. Rochester Flyers is NOT a cycling club or race team. Rochester Flyers is NOT a bike shop or a company. Rochester Flyers is just me, going on rides, attempting to return to racing, doing alleycats and spewing my opinion online.

Gunnar Soroos A lifelong cyclist born on the tropical island of Oahu, racing in Minnesota. His passion of cycling is combined with his faith in God to keep him focused on the real mission - the golden rule, love others as you would want to be loved. Peace.

One's first glimpse of freedom, in fact is often snatched from
a bike. By turning the pedals you can move more quickly towards
your most secret dreams.
-Bernard Hinault

Man ... Spring is almost here. Saturdays ride was most excellent. Stayed pretty close to the planned route. I'd never ridden out there before, and man it was nice. I'm gonna have to ride out there more often.

Started out on the normal country roads in Olmsted county.
No corn yet
There's still snow in the fields, and no corn planted yet.
Persistant Bugger
I couldn't shake this guy no matter what I tried to do.

We hit the gravel road that then descends into Hammond. It was beautiful. But no pics, I was busy descending gravel on a fixedgear. Then we hit the road from Hammond to Milleville. Man, it was so pretty. It snakes along the river and make for such an interesting ride. Especially compared to the grid like farm country roads I'm used to riding on.
River run
This must be awesome in the fall when the leaves turn

Out of Milleville we headed back south to Elgin and into Rochester. At this point we had a tailwind, so it was just about perfect.
Looking ahead
Hugging the white line
The pace was nice, I clocked about 3 hours or so. Kept in about my target heartrate. Just about a perfect early base endurance ride. Good company, nice weather.

Had another two rides on Sunday. A sort-of impromptu hill workout. Went up Viola, and Northern Heights Drive a couple times. About an hours worth. Not really as intense as I wanted, but it was really all I could muster this early in real training.

Second ride was awesome though. After dinner (which was super awesome homemade zuchinni pizza), I went out with the littlest daughter for a stomp through the neighborhood. Her riding skills have improved so much since last fall. Now she wants to do it every weekend. I just hope I can keep up with her.

Somehow, this week is going to need some more duration and/or intensity as it's another build week. I gotta see what the work/home/life schedule will allow. Probabbly gonna hit the gym for a workout today, as it's snowing again this morning.

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