A friend of mine bought a new road bike and wanted to go ride with someone, so I volunteered. I rode his 15+ year old Cannondale using his old clip-in shoes. We ending up going about 30.2 miles in 2.5 hours, and it was a lot of fun. We left out at 1:45 in the afternoon to face the 88° heat. The first half of the ride was pretty easy, but the second half was pretty tough. We had about a 10mph headwind with a couple big hills on the second half of the ride that made it a lot more challenging than I expected. We kept about a 15mph pace the first half and somewhere around 11-12mph on the second half.
All in all, I was surprised at how well I rode. Road bikes are amazingly efficient. I don’t think it matters what kind of shorts you wear because your butt is still going to hurt. Overall, though, it’s much easier on your body than running.
Everything seemed to be going well until we stopped riding. As soon as I got off the bike, my foot started hurting real bad. It was the exact same pain I’ve been feeling after running the last several times. I’m starting to think that I may have some kind of stress fracture on my 5th metatarsal or something. I’m thinking (and my wife agrees) that I should probably had it looked at to make sure I haven’t really messed something up down there.
