After some hard work and reworking of the graphing code (multidimensional arrays start getting very complex with more than three levels), I have gotten to a point where I am ready to present to you my latest creation: “RideStat(RideStat, custom bike riding log)”:http://www.sensoryoutput.com/ridestat/. Although users can only see the front page with a single graph (user configurable) and a table, there exists an administrative back end that allow me to enter other riders, bikes, etc. I plan to add some new functionality to the front-end to allow visitors to see more details about a particular ride, but for the moment, I am pleased with the current information as it is provided.

Right now, I am the only rider with rides in the database, but I plan to get my grandfather to enter his rides on a regular basis since he does so much more riding than me. We’ll see how things go, and hopefully, this will motivate me to ride more often as opposed to sitting here thinking about it.

Word on the street has it that Lance Armstrong uses an “iPod mini”:http://www.apple.com/ipodmini/ during training, “as noted by a user”:http://www.powerpage.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/powerpage.woa/wa/story?newsID=12196 on the “PowerPage”:http://www.powerpage.org/. A user spotted the unique white earbud headphones indicative of an iPod, suspicions that were later confirmed by the announcers on “OLN(Outdoor Life Network TV channel)”:http://www.olntv.com/.

Although there is nothing all that spectacular about Lance using an iPod, I am glad a fellow rider has the sense to go with the superior iPod.

26.6 mi, or for the rest of the world, about 42.8 km. Fun stuff.

For whatever reason, I could discern that my body was having difficulty switching from aerobic metabolism to anaerobic, as I was breathing quite heavily and feeling very tired a bit into the ride. Finally, my body calmed down and switched mode, and my muscles took over. Maybe I haven’t been riding enough.

For the interested, here’s a map of my travels:

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Twenty miles on the bike, from my house to Verdi, Nevada and back.

Twenty is half of what I normally like to ride, but I have some errands to run today that cut into my bike riding time.

[update] Here is a map for the really interested (click for larger version):