The weather is nice out for the first time in weeks. It was around 60 degrees yesterday afternoon, and a not terrible 35 when we started the Family Bikes LBS ride yesterday morning. They boys did about 35, I cut off with Dave for another 15. The pace seemed a bit hard... that's what you get for lacking the discipline to hit the trainer 5 times a week when the weather shuts down the outdoors riding for 6 weeks. Still, it felt good and now the snow is gone, the fitness will come back quickly.
The rain forecast for this morning seems to have come and gone during the night. As the sun is coming up, it is 45 degrees and will hit 50 by noon, no rain in sight. While I'd prefer to be doing the Tradezone training crit, I'm not fit enough to get any value out of that right now so I will try to get out and lay in some nice zone 2 miles, maybe work on spinning up some hills and just enjoy the day. I will be cranking up the volume harder than is advisable, so I should keep the intensity low until I have some miles in the legs.
Yep, it looks like a good day for another ride - what are you doing reading this? You should be out riding.
2 comments:
i like how you poested that at 4.30am today...
...i should be out riding
thats hard core
anyway, if your interested ive got some new footage from the TradeZone races last sunday up at bicyclexc.co.nr
good luck, ceya round
Heard you got dropped like a bad habit... welcome to racing! Don't take it personal, keep working and you'll be hanging soon enough. The top two things are to always find a good draft somewhere in the front third of the pack, and avoid hitting the brakes unless failure to brake would cause a crash. Also, if you are behind somebody who brakes in the corners, get past them no matter what. They will *kill* your legs. Once you do those simple things it will be easier to hang and you can think about attacking or doing creative stuff. Most everybody who races has been dropped hard. It's how we learn, I think.
Nice video. Looks like there was some good racing going on.
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