Another nice morning for a bike commute. I’m glad I have a reason to add bike commuting to my schedule! So 5.5 easy-ish paced miles to work.

After work was the first ride with my bike class. I have 4 kids in the class who don’t know how to ride so a co-worker and I took them out during the day to the basketball and tennis courts and worked with them. One kid was just needing the final push to do it so we just held her seat and boom she got it pretty quick. The other 3 were more at the beginning level so we took the pedals off the bikes and had them stride. One bike I could only get the 1 pedal off so she did her best. (I was able to get it off once we got inside). We really only ended up with less than 45 minutes to practice. When it came time to ride after-school I asked the girl who just got it if she was going to ride with us or stay back and practice some more. She told me she was going to practice but changed her mind and joined us. As expected she was a little slower than the group but she had a great time until we did some small hills on the way back! As a group we rode just over 2 miles to the nearby regional park. The kids had an awesome time and we did a little exploring.

On the way home I decided to spice up the ride a little bit and did some sprint intervals basically a fartlek on the bike. After every street crossing on Victory Memorial Parkway I sprinted for an increasing number of light poles before getting back into a relaxed pace. I obviously got several segment PR’s this way but still wasn’t riding super fast.

At home my little guy was wanting to ride so we did a little ride. He wanted to go down the hill but not come back up it! So we went down the Washburn hill and rode a few blocks around and found a less steep hill to come back up! We did just over a mile.

This was about a 13 mile day on the bike.