Yay!
I did my Evil Coach Troy Ultra Leg tape. Then went out for a few miles. It was blustery and my knees were cold, so I didn't stay out for long. It's hard to do an easy spin into a 15 MPH headwind. :p
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Yay!
I did my Evil Coach Troy Ultra Leg tape. Then went out for a few miles. It was blustery and my knees were cold, so I didn't stay out for long. It's hard to do an easy spin into a 15 MPH headwind. :p
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This might belong on a different thread, but also about indoor climbing workouts...Quote:
Originally Posted by Veronica
Do you keep a different bike in your trainer to make it easy to go in and out, or do you switch out rear wheels, or do you just use the whole same bike indoor and out?
I have a trainer, but I have heard that maybe I shouldn't use the same skewer (or even tire) on the trainer as on the road... I don't use my trainer as much as I'd like because of these things...
Before I got a second road bike, I would take my bike in and out of the trainer. I put a wider tire on the back, since my skinny tire was getting beat up. I would ride my outside training rides with two different tire sizes. For events I would change the rear tire back.
I've used the same skewer the whole time.
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I am finally figuring out a rough idea of what the climbing is for my usual routes. So far this year I did:
Feb: 760 m (2470')
Mar: 1925 m (6256')
April so far: 1195 m (3883')
Total to date: 3880m (12,609')
I think that keeping track will really motivate me to do more climbing. Thanks for doing this thread. :)
(I can't wait to get a GPS bike computer...)
The weather better improve next week or Im going to be hard pressed to meet my goals for April. Im going to try to head out today but I just checked the weather and they are saying chance of a snow shower.......WHAT THE!!!:eek: . I dont mind going up hills in bad weather but coming down is another matter. Between having the kids home for spring break last week and this weather I have hardly been out on my bike and it makes me very crabby.:mad:
Sorry about your crabbiness! I agree - it is COLD!!! My toes were so cold this morning on my ride.
And the thought of more rain this weekend makes me mad. :mad: We're doing a team ride at Pt. Reyes and riding out there can be completely mellow or beyond words brutally hard depending on weather. Well, I suppose the team needs the training. :rolleyes: (The coach, on the other hand, may decide a cozy SAG car is more fitting... :cool: )
I am upping my goal to 35,000 for the month. Making it will depend on whether I decide to take a weekend off or do a hard ride at the end of the month.
Yikes good luck with your team ride I hope the weather behaves. Pt. Reyes I think I have been there and I cant imagine riding there in windy conditions is much fun. DH is off to DC this weekend for a week so unfortunately no riding for me this weekend.Quote:
Originally Posted by maillotpois
35,000 woohoo thats a lot of bumps.:D
Now Im off to get in a ride before I decide it looks way warmer and cosier inside and give it the flick.:o
Just a sympathy post re: weather crabbiness! Me too. I want hot sunshine, now! :eek:
Whoo hoo! One of my climbing goals for this summer was to get to the top of Knox Mountain without stopping. It's 3.5 km (2.2 miles), with 250 m climbing (800') at an average of 7% grade although some parts of closer to 10% and some are less. There is a really hard part at about the 1st km mark and I always have to stop and rest at the lookout. Yesterday I managed all the way up without stopping although I admit I did roll slowly through the flat lookout area before starting the next section. I really did not expect to be able to do until mid-summer. I guess now I will time myself going up and see if I can increase my speed as my next goal. I am going to try to find time to do the climb once a week if I can.
My other happy acheivement was going up all the way up clipped in. I had a fall going uphill early on when I went clipless and have been deathly afraid of climbing at slow speeds. I forced myself to stay in this time round and survived. I think that mental challenge was harder than the climbing itself. :o :rolleyes:
Well done!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by kelownagirl
Got in 2400 feet over the weekend. And, we now return to our regularly scheduled program of cold rain. :mad: (Ah well, did get some good muscle tension work in on the spin bike in the gym today.)
Sorry about the cold rain, Starfish. We got that over the weekend, and it was no fun! This weekend is looking better for us. (Hope I didn't jinx it right there. :cool: )
(Small hijack...but I will keep it brief!) I was just telling Veronica that this is the time of year when I REALLY have to try to keep my whining mouth shut. We really don't get our sunshine until the 2nd-3rd week of July, but we get tiny teasers all spring. It is hard for me to accept that I have 2-3 more months of cold and rain. That is why I will be moving in the next year or so! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by maillotpois
How is everyone doing on their April goals? The first couple weeks, I really didn't ride much and I haven't come anywhere near my goal number. However, I got some great encouragement from Veronica, and the last week or 2 I have been back on the bike.
Today, got in a 21.5 mile ride with 3110' of climbing in! It wasn't exactly a very long "long weekend ride", but I'm pretty happy. We had SUNSHINE. I am SO grateful. And, I met a couple cyclists coming down the mountain who said that despite snow banked high up on both sides, the road was bare and dry all the way to the top (about a 5000' climb). So, I'm excited to get up there.
I think I'm going to be around 7600' this month. A far cry from my 13,000 goal. However, just 3 months ago I had not been on my bike since last June, and I was just 2 weeks into a walking program to get back into working out. So, three months later, I'll take it!
Starfish, I think you're doing great ! :)
I had a bit of a setback the last couple of weeks, I came down with a head cold that's hung on for dear life, so I didn't ride at all the past week.
Today I was feeling pretty good so I rode up part of Calaveras Road, which is a reasonably shallow climb and not too taxing. It was very warm out today, but that's way better for me than the damp cold I rode in last Saturday, gah!
But, I'm happy to say I just squeeked by this month's goal of 18,000 feet, I'm at about 18,400.
I hope I can get in another 30 miles by Monday, cuz then I'll be up to 2000 miles by the end of April. :cool:
Great job on the climbing everyone.
I guess I will have to readjust my "goal". I hit 48,609 for April because of a "little ride" I did yesterday. :cool:
MWBR. I have to go get food.
Well, that got me a-scamperin' to your journal.
Oh. My. God. I had no idea you were doing that!
Most eagerly awaiting the details. :cool:
Ed. to add: You sure earned your pancakes, darlin'!
Me too! I would have worked the dinner if I'd known. Can't wait to see the ride report!Quote:
Originally Posted by jobob
I wasn't planning it really, myself. Only signed up a couple of weeks ago. That's what happens when you do your 400k 2 weeks before you planned and you don't "have" to do a 400k that day. Sick, huh?
Kim - Don't worry, I didn't stick around dinner very long. Just long enough to regain consciousness and affirm heartily in front of all witnesses that I would never do that ride again. It was 2 am. Apparently I wasn't even last.
I figured it was something like that. You have interesting impulses, MP. :rolleyes:
I'd like to try the Mt. Hamilton Challenge next year. It looks hard, but not crazy-azs hard.
OMG - I was thinking (at midnight) what a wonderfully civilized ride the Mt. H Challenge is!! I did it 2 years ago with my friend David - it was both of our first real 200ks. I saw David at their rest stop 2/3 of the way to the junction yesterday. At that point, I was ahead of where I estimated I would be time-wise - and he was behind where I thought he would be. I never expected to see him, and it was a real treat!
That is a fun ride! Although I am not wild about descending that side of Hamilton. Beats climbing it, though. :rolleyes:
But I can't ride it next year anyway as I've committed to doing ride support for DMD. ;)
dagaus, perchance?
Last night I was looking up his Wine Country Century ride from last year that he uploaded on MotionBased. I'm already plotting my shortcut back to the finish after Coleman Valley & Rt. 116 ;)
Yup, Dagaus. AKA Ubergeek. (Not only does he seem to upload ALL of his rides to Motion Based, he still uses both his Polar and his Garmin. :rolleyes: )
He's the one who got me on BikeJournal, and that brought me here, so I have a lot to be grateful to him for!
OK its official you are a mountain goat.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by maillotpois
Congratulations on a rather bumpy ride - 19000 OMG.:eek:
Im off to start our May thread
I got a wimpy 12,964 ft in this month, 486 ft short of my goal. However, I think I get double credit for all the climbing yesterday in the 103 degree heat.
So in one ride MP got half again as much climbing as I did all month. So what? ;)
I'm also falling short. I'll finish today with about 22,000 feet, no mountains and no mountain biking this month. :(
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Well, you did spend a whole day doing an excellent public service with your great support of DMD, so in my book that counts as a lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Veronica
:)
Well, April was a total BUST for me. I only rode 4 times for a whoping total of 3900 ft of climbing. Bah.
I lost a week and a half to a crazy work schedule and then (due to my crazy work schedule) another week and a half to an upper-respiratory infection.
Oh well...I am excited that I am riding this afternoon for the first time since April 8th.
Here's hoping May is a much better month! :)
Thanks. Volunteering is a lot of fun. We got home so late, there was no way I was going to back and ride Hamilton on Sunday like I had planned. But my local 40 miler was just right.Quote:
Originally Posted by maillotpois
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This is just so outrageous to me that my mouth is hanging open. Seriously. If you look, you'll see me bowing to the master. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by maillotpois
Well, I don't know about that, Starfish. But thanks. You know, we all just do what we can. Seems like my training right now is pretty climbing intensive. Which is ironic because honestly I am not a great climber - I am persistent and steady but by no means fast on the climbs. I used to be a lot faster. Working on it.
At the beginning of the month, I wasn't planning to do the ride with the 19,000 feet of climbing I did on Saturday. But then it started to seem like a good idea. :rolleyes:
LOL ... This is always the way things start in cycling! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by maillotpois
Well, I did a ride report for DMD. If you have a few hours to kill, it's here:
http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=15205
Sarah, thanks for the awesome ride report. SO inspirational!
So I blew away my running climbing goal of 20 000 feet - I got 22. As for the bike, I would have had that but i got sick and couldn't do anythig for about 5 days in April so I ended up at 24 000 feet instead of my planned 25 000.
Not bad fro a girl that moved here from the praries and still rides with a standard double.:D :D
LOL...amazing! I have both a triple AND mountain gears on the back!Quote:
Originally Posted by Wahine