90 kilometres, incredible. I'm curious about your measurements or your pants size - you must be so buff.

oh nah, blowed if i can find a measuring tape anyway to measure. but im not that buff.
I regained 15lb or so when we moved house and im working on removing that and geting fitter for a 160km (70-80mi?) race near the end of november.

Knackered today, my phone changed itself to daylight savings mode on the weekend without me noticing. I noticed at 4:30am when the alarm went off an hour early! Daylight savings started a week earlier than normal this year for some reason :/
So i did this mornings RPM class but cancelled the evenings one. Im booked for tomorrow morning anyway.

BTW, We gotta work on your conversion skills Hun, give yourself credit for the mileage (In the US we just don't think in Kilometers), that you are doing. A 160K is basically a "century" here, conversion factor works it out to about 100 miles (99.4 technically).

It's an amazing ride. I can't wait to say I've done one.

heh hopefully your 100 is less hilly that mine then

Mines made up of mosty really steep hills. There is about 40km of flats and thats about it . you can see the elevation profile here MapMyRide.com | View Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge in Taupo, New Zealand
Click on the right where it has 'Route Info' and click the 'elevation' box to view the elevation. Its nasty!

So i didnt go to RPM last night, or this morning. To many late nights and other things. its been pouring and i just couldnt be buggered to be fair.
Today is sunny, ill get out tonight.

geez woman -that's some bad ass elevation...

I'll have to check to see if the club that is sponsoring this ride has an elevation map for it. I'd like to see the stats (before I blow a lung out on the ride!). Looks like a challenge for sure.. I'm going to have to start doing some intervals here as a regular part of my workout in order to be able to handle this kind of stuff.

wow, very impressive Liz! you rock

Just create your own based on their map on the website. Another website which is less cluttered and works nicely is bikely.com . i prefer bikely most of the time - however mapmyride has a couple of features like setting a goal pace before downloading a GPX to my Garmin GPS that i use

Still no weight change, still doing the gym and cycling thing as well as eating well.
Im not counting calories as such, but i have a fair idea what calories what things have in them and im sticking to pretty darned low calories.
I did notice however my floor is a little uneven so i wonder if that affects it, also my scales say i have same body fat % as i used to have (at a lower weight) and higher water retention. So its possible that some water involved in that.

Bit depressed that the scale isnt moving and my thigh and gut are still hanging out :/

Well, I was able to download a cue sheet from this year's century ride, so it should be fairly accurate. The max elevation change for the ride is 1850 feet (from the clubs website), the actual elevation profile may be another matter though. I'll have to try plugging it in somehow.

wow thats pretty impressive, is that total up/down or just one hill ? good luck with the training for that

I'm having a hell of a time dumping it into the bikely website, because th e!#@#$ idiot that wrote the cue sheet didn't even know all the street names...

just map your own one then - create your own route using the basic map of theirs


So i just got a cll an hour ago from the local news paper who wanted to do photos to go with an article on me - horay! fame!!
Ill scan it next weds when it comes out

You know what? There could be worse thing to use your "15 minutes of fame" on...

Hey! Wishes, Just dropping by to say Hi! You are looking mighty fine and healthy. You probably don't remember me, but that's O.K. I remember you and it's good to see that doing O.K.

nep i dont recall you,but thats probably because you only joined feb and have only done 3 posts!

Scales havnt said much diff, clothes seem to sit better though. Binged on KFC last night, and pancakes with bacon and banana for breakfast! grrr not good. Still, im back on the wagon so to speak. I did 40km of hils this morning, and thats going to be my routine for the next couple months every morning. It takes me 1:40min so if i get up at 6:30am ill be back about 8am ready to head out to work.

I need to start doing much longer workouts on the weekends - get those kms up and long rides up. Time to go cycling to visit people a few towns away i think and back.