{"id":28914,"date":"2015-02-11T15:55:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T21:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=28914"},"modified":"2015-02-11T15:55:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T21:55:03","slug":"sore-muscles-recovery-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2015\/02\/11\/sore-muscles-recovery-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Sore Muscles Recovery Bike Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night after eating dinner I started to get up from my chair and my leg muscles let me I had overworked them biking. This morning when I got up the soreness was still there but at least I could move around without constant pain. At first I thought biking today might be a bad idea, a recovery day, but as morning changed to noon the muscles were doing better. With the sun finally burning off the fog I set off on the ride at 1:14. It was 76 degrees, partly cloudy sky and a light SE wind of 9 or 10 mph. The first 5 or 6 miles were difficult from the sore muscles but as they warmed up the soreness seemed to go away. In reality it didn’t go away as I found out whenever I stood up to pedal.<\/p>\n

According to Dr. Mirkin, sore muscles means you have been working them to grow stronger. I think I did that.<\/p>\n

Around the 8 or 9 miles into the ride I decided to shorten the route. Rather than ride to Huffman I would ride to Walden and then circle back home. Today’s ride was 22.84 miles<\/strong> long and the average speed was a lowly 13.6 mph. Every time I thought about pedaling harder and faster my sore muscles reminded me this was a recovery ride.<\/p>\n

With the nice weather I stopped at the west end of Lake Houston on FM1960 and took these pictures (click on the image to enlarge it).<\/p>\n

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Looking northeast <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Looking NNE <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

The picture on the left looks like I have two bikes, a big one and a little one.<\/p>\n

I saw three bikers along the route. To get 22 miles I rode out to the middle of the causeway and then back to Atascocita Shores Drive.<\/p>\n

Mileage standings:<\/p>\n