Went out for a nuun ride this afternoon. They have some new flavors and sent me some samples. The tri-berry is pretty good. I’ll submit a review (and enter the sock drawing) later.

So did my long ride today, as I’m heading out for the weekend tomorrow morning. Going to take some pictures at a time trial stage race BigMatt is doing. It’ll give me a chance to play around with some new lenses I just received. Trying to improve my picture taking skills and start building a body of work in documenting the endurance lifestyle. So, my Cervelo R3 turned out to be some investments in photography equuipment Hopefully I’ll hve some good shots to share next week.

Long 4 hour ride. Felt pretty good for the first 3 hours then got a little fried. By the sun and lack of nutrition, idiot didn’t put any sunscreen on - stupid! Lobster arms are stinging now I think I have to make some more adjustment to my shoes. My feet just never feel very comfortable. By the end of the ride my feet are pretty sore and uncomfortable, from the vibrations and pushing on the pedals I think. I’ve tried several different inserts and the current ones are better than the previous, but still not very comfortable. And I can’t imagine pushing for six hours the way they feel. Getting a little frustrating trying to dial this stuff in. I think I should just find a specialist that may be able to help me figure this out.

This is pretty much what the riding looks like around here. About 5-10 miles out and it becomes farm land, then rolling hills. But all high desert terrain more so on the East side. This is shot about 30 miles East of town. The West side is surrounded by forrest and mountains so there aren’t that many options to go out 30 miles. Most loop back around at about that, except taking Century up and over the mountain, but you can’t get through yet due ot snow levels. This summer I’ll do more climbing rides over and around Bachelor. They’ll be some great pics from those rides, can’t wait… kinda… it’s quite a climb