Completed Climbing Challenge, Distance Challenge – BionicOldGuy

Last Tuesday, June 30, I completed my June climbing challenge with a total of 7,652 meters. The highest mountain in the world is Jomolungma (Mount Everest) at 8848 meters. If we look at the highest peaks of each continent, South America is in 2nd place with Aconcagua at 6,962 meters. Crossing 8,848 meters is a challenge called « Everesting ». I didn’t quite do it. But I’ve done a little more than « Aconcagua-ing », which feels pretty good.

A challenge makes training fun, so moving into July I signed up for the 800km challenge. I’m actually shooting 1000 miles which is just over 1600km. This requires just over 2 hours of riding at an average of 15 mph (24 kmph) or more, which seems doable. In the first 4 days I’m ahead of schedule by just over 111 miles so far. I enjoy this one more than the climbing one because speed on the flats is much more of a strength of the recumbent than the climbing.

Last Sunday I took a long cruise on the mountain roads northwest of Morgan Hill.