This is the first post for this blog. Just trying it out. This blog is intended to be a public diary of my training for the 2008 Markleeville Death Ride. Never done anything like it before. Not even close. I’ve been a recreational mountain-biker for years and somehow I’ve gotten myself into this crazy plan to do a 129-mile, 15,000-foot climb all-day endurance extravaganza. We’ll see how it goes.
One of the first orders of business was to get a new roadbike, as the old one was seriously unprepared (just like me!) for the upcoming event. I’d tell the story of picking out this bike, blah, blah, blah, but time is of the essence. In order to test this blogging thing, let’s try and insert a picture of the new bike:
It’s a 2008 Trek Madone 5.1, picked up at Summit Bicycles in Los Gatos, CA. I’ve got a few stories to tell re: buying the new bike, but I’ll save those for a “real” post.
I found a cool little program from Adam Tow’s blog called ”Klimb” that gave me this: the profile from my first ride on the new bike:
It was kind of a pain to figure out how to get the profile out of Klimb and into a blog, but not bad for a first attempt. Btw, I have no idea why the “blue-green” portions aren’t identical, since it’s the same hill (Camden Ave.) I rode on going out and coming back. Like I said, I’m still learning the Klimb software, so maybe I did something wrong.
Okay, I’ve tried out links, photos, tags and categories. I hope this thing works!
