News Tribune Adventure writer and novice cyclist Craig Hill is training to ride the 202-mile Seattle-to-Portland Bicycle Classic in one day and discovering the local riding scene and the sport’s nuances along the way. In his blog, he explores ideal riding routes, events, relays tips from the experts and helps you figure out if you’ll need to shave your legs for your next big ride.
Guest blogger: Rick Beitelspacher teaches junior high English in the Puyallup School District. You can contact him at tshirtguys@comcast.net.
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After riding a century last weekend, our 51-mile ride today was a breeze.
Half the team was missing for various reasons. While Rick Beitelspacher, Scott Wagar were strong for the entire ride, for me, at least, the missing teammates was a nice a reminder of how important the team will be in getting us all to Portland.
A three-man pace line is still effective, but with less time to rest the ride was clearly more of a workout that it should have been. Not that I'm complaining. I'm starting to feel like I might actually be able to do this.
Good thing, because my training faces a major obstacle the next few weeks - vacation. I'll be away from my bike (Beitelspacher will be blogging), and certainly my fitness level will take a hit.
I'll only have 10 days left to prep for the STP when I get back. This, of course, means more pain on the big day. Oh, well, too late for me at that point.
"The next three weeks are going to fly by," Wagar said.
