Finished Climbing Challenge, On To Distance Challenge

On last Tuesday, June 30th, I finished my June climbing challenge with a total of 7,652 meters. The highest mountain in the world is Chomolungma (Mt Everest) at 8,848 meters. Looking at the tallest peaks of each continent, South America comes in 2nd with Aconcagua at 6,962 meters. Exceeding 8848 meters is a challenge called “Everesting”. I didn’t quite make that. But I did do a bit more than “Aconcagua-ing”, which feels pretty good.

Having a challenge makes training fun, so moving on to July I’ve signed up for the 800 km distance challenge. I’m actually shooting for 1000 miles which is a little over 1600 km. This requires a bit over 2 hours of riding on average at 15 mph (24 kph) or more, which seems doable. In the first 4 days I’m ahead of schedule with just over 111 miles so far. I’m enjoying this one more than the climbing one because speed on the flats is my recumbent’s forte a lot more than climbing.

Last Sunday I did a long cruise through the mountain roads northwest of Morgan Hill.