MC's Cycling Diary

State Break Up (excluding city rides): State Heat Maps (excluding city rides): KARNATAKA TAMIL NADU KERALA GOA ANDHRA PRADESH Ride Category (excluding city rides): 2014 2015 2016 2017 Monthly Activity (excluding city rides): Month 2014 (Kms) 2015 (Kms) 2016 (Kms) 2017 (Kms) January - 146 - 1,443 February - 100 73 396 March - 742 342    1,385 April - - -  452 May - - 303 351 June - 50 637 1,211 July 143 374 809 1,673 August - 398 303 715 September 297 365 651 138 October - - 691 341 November - - 981 1,228 December 73 - 903 1,794  Total 513 2,175 5,693 11,127 Equipment Usage: Cycle From To Type No. of Trips Trip Distance (Kms) City Rides (Kms) Total Distance (Kms) Merida Mats 10D Jul 2014 Dec 2017 MTB 28 6,001 5,102 11,103 Btwin Triban 300 Feb 2016 Jul 2

Date: 15 December 2017 - 18 December 2017 Total distance: 1,020 Kilometers Start Time: 6:00 am 15 December 2017 Return Time:  6:20 am 18 December 2017 With: Raghu Nandan Nagaraja, Parthasarathi Mahakud, Satish Addanki (up to 350 kilometer mark) Altitude Profile: Vidhana Soudha – Chitradurga - Bankapur - Khanapur - Kittur - Dharwad - Chitradurga - Kanteerava Stadium The SR series was done in a month and the day for the 1,000 km brevet had arrived. The SR series rides had been done to be able to ride the 1,000 km brevet and now that the ride day was approaching, I was excited. The cycle had been serviced at RR cycles the previous week and I went back to purchase a Cateye Volt 300 headlight as I did not want to run into a situation of riding with dim lights and going into a pothole as had been done in the Twin Hills brevet which almost cost me the ride. Rajkumar was not riding this brevet as he was riding the Tour of Nilgiris. I was worried that I would not have a

Date: 9 December 2017 Total distance: 171 Kilometers Start Time: 4:10 am Return Time:  15:15 pm With: - Altitude Profile: Koramangala - Thimappana Betta - Kanva Reservoir - Thimappana Betta - Koramangala Just a week to go for the 1,000 km brevet and I had not done any kind of preparation for the ride. I had not ridden the cycle for a week after the 600km brevet. Although I did go jogging on a couple of days there was no time spent on the saddle. I looked up locations close by as I did not want to do a very long ride, the plan was to do a relaxed ride so that I don't have to spend too much time on recovery. I saw a bikers blog on Thimappana Betta and decided to ride to it as it was just 60 kilometers away. As Kanva reservoir was within 10 kilometers of  Thimappana Betta, decided that if I was not too tired then I would ride to the reservoir as well before returning. I opted to start early so that I could get back early and set the alarm for 3:00 am. I had deci