| Ride Date |
Distance (miles) |
Weather Conditions |
Altitude Gain (ft) |
Ride Type |
Bike |
Club Affiliation |
7/7/2026
(Tue)
|
41.10 |
hot |
890 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: silver comet |
11/7/2026
(Sat)
|
36.00 |
Hot humid and nice wind in your face.. |
1,650 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Trek to Trek ride south of Atlanta . Recovering GURD. Yick!!! |
13/7/2026
(Mon)
|
41.10 |
Missed the rain! |
885 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Silver Comet |
22/7/2026
(Wed)
|
41.05 |
80s plus |
825 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Silver Comet after a week plus helping son and family move. |
24/7/2026
(Fri)
|
41.05 |
Dirty, nasty, wet and crunchy. |
820 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Silver Comet. Missed rain until the last couple of seconds. Couple of pounds of dirt on the bike. Gravel, nope road. |
27/7/2026
(Mon)
|
41.05 |
Heavy rain and then I went |
825 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Everything was damp/dry. |
28/7/2026
(Tue)
|
41.05 |
Humid and hot. |
875 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: My best time sub 2:27 for the forty. Its been over a two years for that time. |
29/7/2026
(Wed)
|
28.35 |
90 plus and humid |
1,285 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Group ride |
30/7/2026
(Thu)
|
41.05 |
Cooler only low 90s at finish |
875 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Silver Comet. Last Two rides for this under 2:30. Its been a year and a half to recovery. 2:26 today. |
31/7/2026
(Fri)
|
41.05 |
Nice but still hot |
879 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Little raw on the bum. |
| July Rides |
Distance (miles) |
Weather Conditions |
Altitude Gain (ft) |
Ride Type |
Bike |
Club Affiliation |
| 10 |
392.85 |
n/a |
9,809 |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
3/8/2026
(Mon)
|
41.10 |
Nice |
876 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Got within 4 miles of the end and my garmin battery went poof! |
4/8/2026
(Tue)
|
45.75 |
Nice then a deluge. |
935 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Silver Comet |
5/8/2026
(Wed)
|
41.17 |
Humid otherwise good. |
869 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
Comments: Silver Comet. New distance meter. It is funny how the nearly exact ride varies upwards of .25.
Anyway best in two years @ 2:25:50 |
8/8/2026
(Sat)
|
46.75 |
Warm hot definitely not cool. |
1,100 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Silver Comet plus. |
9/8/2026
(Sun)
|
27.50 |
Humid |
700 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Easy ride with the Escargot group on the Cricket Frog Rails to Trails. |
10/8/2026
(Mon)
|
52.10 |
Humid |
1,200 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Silver Comet towards the tunnel. |
12/8/2026
(Wed)
|
31.25 |
Dry, though sprinkles around. Humid |
1,200 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Group ride from Hampton |
13/8/2026
(Thu)
|
41.04 |
steamy and gritty |
935 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
Comments: What is strange is that my Garmin gives me different altitudes and climbs. Same route!!!
Got my gears finally straight. Silly issue, but solved.
|
14/8/2026
(Fri)
|
31.50 |
Very humid |
750 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Comet. Thanks for shade otherwise dangerous heat. |
17/8/2026
(Mon)
|
41.05 |
102F nearly 40C with 75% humidity |
875 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Needless to say, I stayed on a shady route today and kept the tempo easy. |
18/8/2026
(Tue)
|
32.00 |
Hot started out at 95 F 85 at end |
1,231 |
Road: Hills |
Bianchi Specialissima
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Group ride |
19/8/2026
(Wed)
|
30.50 |
Hot mid 90s |
1,235 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Group Ride. Weny over 500,000 today! |
22/8/2026
(Sat)
|
43.50 |
Nice but humid |
1,110 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Silver Comet to the tunnel with friends. |
23/8/2026
(Sun)
|
31.50 |
humid |
750 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Comet. |
25/8/2026
(Tue)
|
46.30 |
Hot, but nice under the tree canopy |
1,111 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Silver Comet abd a bit more. |
31/8/2026
(Mon)
|
45.50 |
90s |
1,120 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Con\met. I should ensure that Garmin battery is fulluy chargd |
| August Rides |
Distance (miles) |
Weather Conditions |
Altitude Gain (ft) |
Ride Type |
Bike |
Club Affiliation |
| 16 |
628.51 |
n/a |
15,997 |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
1/9/2026
(Tue)
|
33.65 |
94 at start less humid |
1,300 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: group ride |
2/9/2026
(Wed)
|
28.10 |
It was HOT today 98 plus |
1,200 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Group ride |
5/9/2026
(Sat)
|
36.00 |
Hot. Finish ride 92F feels like 102. |
1,407 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Group ride through three counties. |
7/9/2026
(Mon)
|
52.97 |
Cloudy and cooler, sort of. |
1,140 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Out on the Comet to Rockmart. |
8/9/2026
(Tue)
|
34.10 |
Nice breezy not too hot/humid |
1,260 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Group ride. The worst thing about recovery is knowing where you've been. Hill I used to dance up, now are a slow grind. Yes, I am strong, definitely for my age, and AFiB can be an issue, and it is disheartening. Any who, great ride. Steel is real, heavier, but what a great ride. :-) |
9/9/2026
(Wed)
|
23.50 |
90s but cloudy |
875 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Group ride easy |
10/9/2026
(Thu)
|
41.05 |
Sticky and sweaty |
880 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Out and back on the Comet. Wild Turkey Hen. |
14/9/2026
(Mon)
|
45.50 |
End of ride 94F.
Stinky sweat |
1,100 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Silver Comet. |
15/9/2026
(Tue)
|
18.25 |
|
500 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: easy ride |
16/9/2026
(Wed)
|
32.50 |
High 80s with a brezze |
1,200 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: roup ride |
16/9/2026
(Wed)
|
32.50 |
High 80s with a brezze |
1,200 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: roup ride |
17/9/2026
(Thu)
|
45.35 |
High 80s low 90s. |
1,010 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
Comments: Comet. Easy until this young women rides past like a bat out of hell. Couldn't catch. Oh well, saw a woodchuck before she roared by. Groundhog day?
See the Cardiac Surgeon tomorrow. Cross fingers. May ride tomorrow. |
18/9/2026
(Fri)
|
23.50 |
Still hot finished with 93 degrees. Shade is good for this. |
500 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Silver Comet short. Had appointment with my Cardio Surgeon. All is good, see him in a year. What a relief. Tired so rode short. |
18/9/2026
(Fri)
|
23.50 |
Still hot finished with 93 degrees. Shade is good for this. |
500 |
Road: Hills |
Mercian Professional Lugless
Road |
Southern Crescent Cycling |
| Comments: Silver Comet short. Had appointment with my Cardio Surgeon. All is good, see him in a year. What a relief. Tired so rode short. |
| September Rides |
Distance (miles) |
Weather Conditions |
Altitude Gain (ft) |
Ride Type |
Bike |
Club Affiliation |
| 14 |
470.47 |
n/a |
14,072 |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
| YTD Rides |
Distance (miles) |
Weather Conditions |
Altitude Gain (ft) |
Ride Type |
Bike |
Club Affiliation |
| 116 |
3,346.81 |
n/a |
100,002 |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
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