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Saturday May 27, 2017 #
2 PM
cycling 1:33:19 20.14 mi (4:38 / mi) +522m 4:17 / mi
ahr:126 max:163 slept:6.5 weight:165.6lbs
Jet lag gradually improving.
Ride from the house past Ski Sundown, up 219 across the dam, Beach Rock, 181 to 20 and down to PV where Zack picked me up. This is a really nice ride, and one I did quite a few times last year. Felt pretty good.
Ride from the house past Ski Sundown, up 219 across the dam, Beach Rock, 181 to 20 and down to PV where Zack picked me up. This is a really nice ride, and one I did quite a few times last year. Felt pretty good.
Friday May 26, 2017 #
5 AM
Gym 55:00 [1]
slept:6.5 weight:168.2lbs
Rhonda's morning class.
5 PM
Rowing Machine 9:19 [2] 2.0 km (4:40 / km)
Thursday May 25, 2017 #
12 PM
Rowing Machine 9:00 [2] 2.0 km (4:30 / km)
slept:6.0 weight:169.6lbs
Pretty tired today after the travel yesterday, so this was a bit of a struggle. I had thought about going longer, but had the wisdom to just go for 2K, and I did not have much spunk.
Report on the bike ride. Generally less strenuous than the previous tours we did the last few years, in Tuscany, Albania, Slovenia, Sicily. Nice weather, good companions, but it seems that the general trend is that people are getting older. Chuck and Judy, the tour organizers, are 67 and 68 now. Of the 14 clients, 5 were 55-64, the rest at or around 70 except for one charming lady of 82. Six of us were on e-bikes, or they would not have been able to have done it, or at least not had much fun at it. A little more waiting around than on prior iterations, too. Ate well, and I am up 3 lbs or so as a result. Great scenery, made me eager to think about another excursion to Greece one of these days.
Report on the bike ride. Generally less strenuous than the previous tours we did the last few years, in Tuscany, Albania, Slovenia, Sicily. Nice weather, good companions, but it seems that the general trend is that people are getting older. Chuck and Judy, the tour organizers, are 67 and 68 now. Of the 14 clients, 5 were 55-64, the rest at or around 70 except for one charming lady of 82. Six of us were on e-bikes, or they would not have been able to have done it, or at least not had much fun at it. A little more waiting around than on prior iterations, too. Ate well, and I am up 3 lbs or so as a result. Great scenery, made me eager to think about another excursion to Greece one of these days.
Wednesday May 24, 2017 #
Note
slept:7.0
Long travel day. Left Nafplio at 7:30 am, arrived home 8 pm, 7 hrs time change.
Tuesday May 23, 2017 #
12 PM
cycling 2:07:59 25.62 mi (5:00 / mi) +359m 4:47 / mi
ahr:105 max:152 slept:7.5
Started with a van transfer to Epidauros, where we saw the great theater and other classical period ruins. It was the main stomping grounds of Asclepius, the father of medicine and healing.Then we took a mostly downhill but partly uphill ride through some remote terrain, steep and switchbacky in parts, ending up at the sea for lunch in a beautiful place where we swam in the sea first, then sat on an outside dining area over the sea, beautiful blue, and had the kind of lunch I dreamed I might have. Greek salad, of course, and then pickled octopus, gavros (fried smelts), fried sardines, calamari, and the best - large grilled octopus tentacles as big around as my thumb. Those were really good! Then another 12 miles or so home, where it was time to pack the bikes.
Monday May 22, 2017 #
8 AM
cycling 3:05:34 31.6 mi (5:52 / mi) +313m 5:42 / mi
ahr:93 max:159 slept:7.0
Loop from Nafplio. Lovely sunny day. About 20K through orange groves and olive groves to the start of the climb to Mykenae, prehistoric acropolis, burial grounds, legendary home of Agamemnon, he of Trojan war fame. Featured the giant burial mounds ascribed variously to him and to his father, and to Clytemnestra his faithless wife, but as to whether they were real or legendary people, and why they have dated his father's tomb to 200 years later than his wife's, hard to say. Anyway, lots of the fortifications including the famous Lion's Gate made for an interesting walk around.
The climb itself was pretty stimulating on the way up, and then again on the way down. Very nice lunch in a restaurant at the bottom of the hill, with the best part the lovely baked tomatoes stuffed with rice. The ubiquitous Greek salad was pretty great too. Then a return on a different path, also through the orange and olive groves and back to Nafplio. This was my best day physically.
The climb itself was pretty stimulating on the way up, and then again on the way down. Very nice lunch in a restaurant at the bottom of the hill, with the best part the lovely baked tomatoes stuffed with rice. The ubiquitous Greek salad was pretty great too. Then a return on a different path, also through the orange and olive groves and back to Nafplio. This was my best day physically.
10 AM
Hike 52:11 [0] 1.97 mi (26:33 / mi) +87m 23:20 / mi
Not back long and then we headed out for a walk along the coast to a beach for a pleasant dip (at least for me, as Rhonda decided it was too cold). Very refreshing. From the water I realized that it was much shorter to go by the bottom of the stairs to the Palamidi, and so we went that way.
Then just as we got back our tour mate Jane was heading out. Jane is quite a hoot. 82 years old, rides an e-bike, very spunky, but she was pretty afraid she was going to get lost going out for ice cream. She had a map and some instructions from the front desk, but was kind of stressed, so I went with her, and had a little nocciola ice cream while I was at it. She was most pleased. She was a professional dancer, still quite graceful.
Then just as we got back our tour mate Jane was heading out. Jane is quite a hoot. 82 years old, rides an e-bike, very spunky, but she was pretty afraid she was going to get lost going out for ice cream. She had a map and some instructions from the front desk, but was kind of stressed, so I went with her, and had a little nocciola ice cream while I was at it. She was most pleased. She was a professional dancer, still quite graceful.
Sunday May 21, 2017 #
Event: WCOC Osbornedale State Park
9 AM
cycling 1:44:30 18.6 mi (5:37 / mi) +211m 5:26 / mi
ahr:100 max:154 slept:7.5
Sunny day, ride to Nafplio along the coast. Pretty spectacular. One glitch along the way when two of the group missed a turn and continued on for about 10K, apparently oblivious to the fact that nobody was with them. They had their phone turned off to save on connection charges. It took about an hour to track them down, while the rest of us had coffee and hung around. Still doesn't seem clear to them that they had done anything wrong. But anyway, a nice lunch looking out over the beach, and on into the hotel.
3 PM
Hike 1:24:05 1.97 mi (42:38 / mi) +352m 27:26 / mi
ahr:102 max:141
After a short break, Rhonda and I climbed to Palamidi Fortress, a good steep climb up what they say is 999 stairs from the town. Pretty challenging after 4 days on the bike. Anyway, spectacular views, a bit of history. It looks really old, but apparently dates from the 1700s, and reached its greatest fame when the Greeks took it over from the Ottomans during the Greek war of independence in 1822.