Climbing Club February

[jobob]

That was a really fun ride, made more so by the fine weather and especially the company - we had a great turnout of guys from bikejournal (gw_12, tenbrooks, LOS) and bikeforums (taxi, allain, s&sb, bostic). Glenn was so sweet, he rode back with LOS & I over the Bears. This guy who does repeats of Sierra Road at lunchtime was perfectly happy just hanging back & chatting with us slowpokes. (Of course then he fired up the afterburners at about the last 30 miles and took much of the group on a time trial back to the start )

I might do this route again next Sunday, or at least the hillier parts of it. Depends on the timing of our volunteer shift is for the rescheduled SF 300K the day before. My route conveniently passes by lots of BART stations.

But I have to try not to fall into the trap I fell into last year coming back from the PEs. I think I really overdid it too soon (my Spring mileage progression month to month went 0, 317, 172, 580 , 672), and that's part of what led to the evil butt thetans - and a general late summer burn out. So I will try not to do that again. Live and learn.

I hear ya! After my fall burnout I'm being a lot more careful as well. I'm basically gearing up towards the Mt. Hamilton Challenge at the end of April, with my major goal being Mt. Shasta in August. The RUSA R-12 would be nice but I don't want to burn myself out in the process.