Matthew Wegner

The time is upon me! I leave tonight on a 9pm flight (to LA, then Taipei, then Hanoi). I’ll update this blog with as many photos as I can throughout the trip. We’ll be traveling through some pretty rural areas, though, so it may be that I won’t have much internet until the very end.  This is the Flickr set I’ll be filling.

I’ll try to update this post with some more thoughts and expectations, but for now I need to head over to Flashbang and make sure everything is set for my leave…

Things have been busy here, mostly with work, so I haven’t been riding as much as I need to for Vietnam. I did go for a 30-mile ride on the Arizona Canal with Dan yesterday. The great thing about this route is that 90% of the street crossing have underpasses, so you can ride uninterrupted for a good 10 miles at a time. The only downside is that the route is out-and-back, which isn’t quite as stimulating.

We stopped for some Pita Jungle on the way back (which is one reason total time and moving time are so different).

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Total Time (h:m:s)
3:52:49 7:47 pace

Moving Time (h:m:s)
3:09:00 6:19 pace

Distance (mi )
29.86

Moving Speed (mph)
9.5 avg.

Avg. Heart Rate
141 bpm Zone 3.6

I went out for my first real training ride today. I’ve been meaning to get started for awhile now, but something else was always taking priority. It seemed like my riding was always “tomorrow” and never today. There’s a longer rant here, but I decided that if something was going to happen it was going to happen right now.

So I left my desk at 1:30, went home, changed, and unicycled 14 miles on the 36″. It felt great!

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Total Time (h:m:s)
1:29:01 6:09 pace

Moving Time (h:m:s)
1:24:42 6:02 pace

Distance (mi)
14.01

Moving Speed (mph)
9.9 avg. / 14.1 max.

Avg. Heart Rate
148 bpm Zone 4.0