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zMotion Ingural Ride | Januray 15, 2011
7:00AM The alarm starts a buzzing. I spring out of my bed excited at the idea of cycling again. The first time I ride for MS150 in about two years. I wash my face, slap on my bike shorts and bike jersey, and suit up.
7:30AM I send a test message to my buddy who’s riding for the first time ever, to see if he’s still willing to go on this ride.
7:45AM My buddy comes down the stairs with a morning greeting of “I hate you.” This is when I knew the day was gonna be a good one.
8:10AM With the bick rack attached to the hitch and the bikes loaded up, we head out to John U. Lloyd Park.
8:20AM We arrive at the park and see many zMotion riders ready to hit the pavement and ride. The weather couldn’t have been any better. The sun was up, the temperature was a cool 65ish degrees, and the winds aren’t as tumultuous as I thought it would be.
8:39AM After a short morning pep talk from our camp leaders and the groups breaking up into 3 separate rides (10mi, 15mi, 30mi), we leave the park and head out into Dania Beach and make our way south to Hollywood Beach. The first half of the ride compromised of going 10-13 mph, using pedestrians as obstacles as we weaved our way down the boardwalk, sometimes avoiding head on collisions with other riders and near misses with retired elderly folks as they walked down the boardwalk.
At the halfway point we deiced to turn back and separate into two groups, those who were comfortable with current speed and those who wanted to go ahead. Basically, weed out the slow pokes while the intermediates sped ahead at 15mph-20mph. I decided to gun it with the others and it was awesome. Single file drafting heading north on A1A with the winds blowing into our faces (which by the way sucked ass). Towards the end I went on a full on sprint for mile with another buddy of mine. Totally exhausted.
9:36AM Finally arrived back to park and dismounted. Total stats: 12.44mi, average speed 12.7mph, 585 calories burned, and total time 58 minutes.
10:00AM We begin mingling with each other and talk about past rides, training tips as we constantly look over our shoulders peeping at the caterers and hoping the food will be served soon.
10:30AM Food is served. All the zMotion riders begin to stuff their faces with cheese burgers, chicken burgers, potato salad, and pasta salad.
11:30AM With out bellies full and our hunger satiated, we begin to break camp and head to our homes.
All in all it was a successful ride, it was good seeing friends outside of the work environment taking up the cause and helping to find a cure for multiple sclerosis. Even though today I did 15mi I’m hoping by the time the MS150 rolls around in May, I can do, for the first time in 4 rides, all 150mi of the ride.
Stay tuned as I start creating dedicated entries simply for the MS150. Ciao.
