My husband and I were in Deer Valley today at The Chateaux at a retreat for the firm he works for. There are several bike riders in his firm, so a big bike ride was planned for today. We started down at Kimball Jct., where the marathon starts, and then rode a bike loop around the area. Several places we went were places I've run before during the marathon and half-marathons I've run up there. We went about 20 miles, and then the real fun began. We rode back up the road to Park City, then into lower Deer Valley, and then up Royal St. which lead back to The Chateaux. They had warned me that Royal Street was all uphill, and they were right. Unbeknownst to me at the time, I've run Royal St. before, except the opposite direction, donwhill, during the Wasatch Back Relay in 2007. Anyway, I just plugged away for the 3.4 mile ride straight uphill. It was tough, but it's like anything hard we do, we're glad we did it after it's over.
So I biked about 34 miles, several of them uphill, the last 3.4 very much uphill. So how do I count this as mileage? Sasha says we can count biking mileage in our running mileage as long as we have a fair conversion, which I think is 3:1. So I'm counting what I did today as 10 miles. Does anyone object? |