Sunday, June 1, 2008

400Kms in a week, the milestone

I wanted to celebrate by Bday in style this time. So i set myself a target of 400Kms for the week including the distance that i cover commuting to office.Till friday i covered 210Kms as for 5 days commuting to office, 42 Kms to and fro. So half of the target was achieved. In remaining two days i had complete remaining 190 Kms at-least. So i decided to go Nani from my house and be back, whcih in all is 160 Kms.
Saturdays Ride:
Saturday morning @ 5 Me and Ashish (Pocha) started from my house to Hebbal where we were suppose to meet other road bikers Venki, samim, Rushi, Deepankar. We started from Hebbal by 6:30 and on the way i had an injury in my calf. However i wanted to complete the 160Kms. I toughest part was to clomb the Nandi 450 meters of altitude gain in 5 Kms with my injured calf. We headed back from there it was easy till highway, but after we took the highway major headwind stuck us and it was difficult to keep pace of 25KMPH also. But finally reached hebbal, the bad part of this stretch was the traffic. After the new BIA has opened up the traffic is really bad here. I did not have anything to eat since morning other than one small piece bread. So i was feeling hungry by now, but i wanted to eat only the special thing coocked by my wife that day @ home. So finally slowly but without any stop i pedalled to my house.
The problem was that i had just completed 155.6 now, so i went 2.5Kms ahead of house and came back which made the cyclemeter read 160 for that day .I reached home by 1:15 and at home i ate like i was eating anything first time in my life.

Sunday Ride / My Bday ride:
I was still short of 30Kms so had planned of going for a shorter off-road ride. Rekha turned-up bang @6 at the meeting point, and Mayank was 22 Mins late. We three decided that we will not do much off road as it will be too muddy/slushy. So made our ride through some small roads avoiding the traffic on Sarjapura Road. We took one of the small roads which initilly looked not so paved and but going down it was rally bad and untarred.
Somone had to take the B'day bums (which was earned by me, by completting another year), and the strong nature chose poor Rekha for it. She had a fall directly on her bums (That reminded me of the "humpty dumpty" ryhm, because my son keeps singing it) . She is a brave old lady (That is how me and Mayank teased her), said i am not heart and we carried on and completed out ride 36Kms on cyclo-computer. This was Mayank's first ride, he did quite well in the ride.

With this i complteted 210+160+36 = 406 Kms for the week.

And happy celebrated my Bday on sunday with my family at home

Thanks and Regards,
~ Ravi

1 comment:

Nishad Bhatawadekar said...

Congrats and Belated Happy birthday !!!
You are truly an inspiration for all