Here on Oahu it’s once again time for our annual JBL Metric Century. This is a really lovely ride along the north and windward shores of the island. I’ve done this a couple of times before, once even encouraging RBW members to vote on which bike I should use (my Quickbeam won).
Last year I couldn’t do it as I was having a hip replacement (left hip) the next day. For those who don’t know, the replacement was very successful and I was back on a real bike in six weeks (doc said no earlier though PT was done on a stationary bike).
I’m not a huge organized ride fan as I prefer to ride either alone or with a couple of friends but this ride covers my favorite part of the island. In fact I did a lot of this road two weeks ago when I went on a 2 night camping trip two weeks ago.
I’ll be back on my QB this year. There are no real hills on this ride and I’ve done it before on the QB (actually this is my preferred bike for this sort of thing – I use the Hunq when camping with gear).
Here’s a pic of my bike when I did it last in 2013…
I’m also interested to see how well I do at my new, lighter weight. This is another more or less recent change. With the bad hip I’d really gotten heavy and at the time of my operation was a heft 271. Yesterday I weighed myself at 199.7. Yes, EBDJ played a big part. And I’m still headed down. Most of this weight has come off since November of last year. I took off only a few pounds between April and November of last year, trying to do it by restricting calories and exercise. Fail.
You can see the course here on the course map (labeled 2014 but it’s the same route).
Aloha!