Well I'm pretty sure that yesterday's ride went a far ways toward undoing some of the lengthening some of my muscles have undergone in the last while. I've been practicing asana without doing any cycling... so the body has been gaining more benefits from asana than usual...
Gio and I were out for maybe an hour and a half... and for parts of the ride we were going hard. Hamstrings, lower back and tendons under the sit-bones took a pummelling. For about 6 minutes we were drafting a roadie... he said we were doing between 32 and 34 km/hr for that duration.
I got poked in the face with a sharp stick... avoided eye contact due to wearing protective glasses... good thing. A tree branch hooked onto my camelback, and brought me to a stop (from about 18km/hr).
We had to wait for a ship to go through, so I took advantage of the time to do some hamstring stretching... sat for a while on a bench in the first part of Ubhaya Padangusthasana... letting it all come out...
I rode the hardtail, which still has a very stiff saddle... very sore sit bones today... good thing I made plans to see Joe tonight... a spin class followed by a bite to eat... ouch...