Climbing Club - April Goals

[Trekhawk]

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. 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. (The coach, on the other hand, may decide a cozy SAG car is more fitting... )

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.
35,000 woohoo thats a lot of bumps.

Now Im off to get in a ride before I decide it looks way warmer and cosier inside and give it the flick.

[Starfish]

Just a sympathy post re: weather crabbiness! Me too. I want hot sunshine, now!

[kelownagirl]

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.

[Trekhawk]

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.

Well done!!!

[Starfish]

Got in 2400 feet over the weekend. And, we now return to our regularly scheduled program of cold rain. (Ah well, did get some good muscle tension work in on the spin bike in the gym today.)

[maillotpois]

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. )

[Starfish]

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. )

(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!