Triple Crown Breakfast

[Lise]

people get inducted into the Hall of Fame when they have done 50 doubles.

Wow. So, 3 down, 47 to go? Or had you done others before? You never bore *me* with your Triple Crown stories, V!

[jobob]

Me neither ! I love this stuff.

So V, is there any great wisdom (or at least, helpful tips?) you can share w. to those of us who are thinking about doing some long-distance riding next year?

[Veronica]

So V, is there any great wisdom (or at least, helpful tips?) you can share w. to those of us who are thinking about doing some long-distance riding next year?

Have friends who will pick up your coach when needed.

Make your training rides quality rides. Not every ride should be a hammerfest. Interval training is your friend. Long slow rides are not the way to train. Try to train 5 days a week. Spinervals really helped me through the winter. Train your core.

Pay attention to your body. You need to know what is pain you can put up with and what's not. Pain is inevitable. Managing it is the key to finishing. But to me that doesn't mean riding through something that may cause damage - hence the DMD DNF. We're not getting paid to perform.

Keep it fun. There are days I go out to ride and forget about my training plan and just enjoy the feel of the bike.

I've put all my training writeups on the website as part of the redo. In a month or so when I get serious about training again, I'll probably write another one.

V.

[salsabike]

Thanks, V. I think you can safely assume that most of us here really want to hear as much as you want to say about this! I sure do. I periodically do look at your website also. And very much congrats on the Triple Crown!

[Nanci]

Hi V,

What motorcycle do you guys have, and what is the Triple Crown??

We're probably taking our MC on it's first overnight trip the weekend after this, to Georgia. I always take four pillows with me- so I'm not sure how that's going to work out...We don't have the luggage rack put on it yet. It's be cool to have a trailer. But I bet that would be too dorky for BF. So rain gear and small overnight bag, I guess. It's less than 200 miles. I would like to _not_ go on the Interstate.

Nanci