5 July 2007
Another Fixed Brick - Run
Posted by Brad Hefta-Gaub under: Run; alley cat race; fixed gear; fixie; public art.
After my 32 miler I did a quick 3.5 mile run. I figured that’s about how farI got before my knee started hurting on my last run, so hopefully I could make it without pain.
Plus, I made a point of trying to run slower. Although I’m not sure I succeeded… I mean it wasn’t super slow. But it seems it was slow enough.
There was some kind of a fixed gear convention happening about half a mile from my house on the Burke Gilman trail. There’s this spot under the University Bridge where there is some public artwork that is a huge metal sheet that says “Wall of Death” above the trail. The trail is below the roadway about 30 feet and theres a sloped concrete retaining wall that skateboarders and bmx/trick bikers are often doing tricks off of.
As I ran past there were about 30 bike messenger types with their brakeless fixed gears hanging out. One guy who I recognized from Recycled Cycles was entertaining the crowd riding his bike up the wall and doing spinning backward skids back down the wall. Impressive stuff on a track bike.
It was unclear to me what the gathering was about, it seemed a little too early for an Alley Cat race, and it wasn’t the last Friday of the month, so it wasn’t a Critical Mass gathering. I didn’t dare ask, as I was wearing my tri-shorts and technical running shirt, I was clearly not part of their click.
Workout:
- Type: Run
- Date: 07/05/2007
- Time: 18:00:00
- Total Time: 00:30:34.00
- Average Heart rate: 147
- Max Heart rate: 155
- Calories: 399
- Distance: 3.5 miles
- Average Pace: 8:44.02/mile
- Max Pace: 8:26.33/mile
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