Saturday morning. Ride. Of course -oops, wait. Clouds, gloomy, and threatening skies. Hmmmm. A nap.
2 hours later. Ah, there's the sun, let's go!
I wasn't sure how I wanted to approach today's ride. It was the usual 4000 feet of climbing @ 5.2%. Partly I considered doing L4 intervals up with easier periods between as well as a few other options.
Naturally I decided to do it as an all-out time trial.
Felt like I was flying at first, starting out a bit too hard. My pace leveled off and I made it in good shape to the base of the ski area @ 8500 ft. After that though the next 2000+ feet were much harder, like always. From the base of the mountain to the summit, apparently Vo2max drops by about 7-10% even for someone acclimated to altitude like I am - which probably explains why the 2nd half of the climb feels disproportionately hard, that and it is steeper.
It was a grind, but I forced myself to push hard through the less steep sections which is precisely where the body usually wants to take it easy. Very challenging to the mind and body, to keep yourself at the limit nonstop.
Easily broke my own PR from last week, doing it well under 2 hours.
It was pure hoots and grins on the way down zipping along over 40mph and passing a car
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10-07-2006, 05:04 PM #1
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10-07-2006, 05:40 PM #2
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I passed a car today too!
Originally Posted by Cassandra_Cain
It was pure hoots and grins on the way down zipping along over 40mph and passing a car
(but it was parked)
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10-07-2006, 05:47 PM #3
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It was actually cool this morning in Phoenix (64 degrees), so my ride was quite pleasant. Did 23.5 miles, and felt good during the whole ride. I've really gotten out of shape recently, but am happy that this ride didn't hurt me at all.
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10-07-2006, 05:55 PM #4
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LOL Originally Posted by Lisa S.H.
I passed a car today too!
(but it was parked)
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10-07-2006, 07:21 PM #5
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Didn't ride today, but I will be going out tomorrow! Hopefully I will hit about 45 or so miles. Just looked at the odometer, and I am only 46 miles shy of hitting 1000 miles on my bike! Wish me luck!
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10-07-2006, 07:44 PM #6
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Back in the saddle
You can do it Midgetcycler!!
Today I got back on the bike. I have been very lazy since my husband was in the hospital last month. I think we only rode twice. Today we ran several errands and then got the bikes ready for a short ride. We were racing daylight but managed to get in 18.37 miles. The hills told me I need to get some work before the metric we want to do next month. I did manage to average 16.7 mph.
DH has a colonoscopy Monday, so we won't be riding again until Tuesday. It felt great to be back on the bike!
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10-07-2006, 07:58 PM #7
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Did a 30 mile tandem ride on the Sammamish River Trail and saw dozens and dozens of spawning salmon. Don't know whether I'm weird or what, but I thought it was a simply awesome sight.
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10-08-2006, 05:25 PM #8
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DH and I, along with my friend Karen and her DH and about 6,000 other maniacs did the Seagull Century on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The first Nor'easter of the season hit (normally a winter storm) bringing rain and horrendous wind. The system seemed to park itself over the area for the first half of the weekend. Grrrr....
Last year, we attempted the ride during the remains of tropical storm Tammy - 7" of rain and 30 mph wind. This year, we didn't have as much rain, but much, much more wind...the gusts had to have been over the predicted 40 mph. Ask anyone who rode (or walked) the bridge onto Assateague Island - and got sandblasted for their efforts. Cyclists were riding at an angle into the wind. I wish I could have taken my hands off the handlebars to take a picture, but I was too freaked out to think about it at the time.
Normally, this ride is full of hammerheads in pacelines, but the few groups we saw go by were slow and disorganized and hardly breaking any land speed records. It was a ride to survive, not thrive, and I applaud those who did it.
Kudos to all the TE folks who were out there! I saw one Velo Bella jersey - TE sells those, right? - but didn't see anyone else that I could say was obviously a TE forum-ite.
So all 4 of our group finished with no mishaps (except for my waterbottle that went flying, spilling Gatorade all over me while on the road). We did about 101 miles all told in about 6.5 hours. It was our first century together and we went back to our B&B and toasted our success with wine and Epsom salts! (Soo romantic, eh?)
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