Devil Mountain Dummy: Redux

[Veronica]

We're still working out the details. Right now we're trying to do at least one 60 - 70 ish mile ride once a month. Ride with the fast club guys once a month to try to increase my speed. Neither of us has ridden more than 70 in quite awhile. Thom's gotten quite fast. He's really slimmed down and gotten way more muscly in the last year. He only weighs a pound more than I do now. I try to not let that bug me. Tiny girl I am not.

The trick is balancing everything. I'm still working on my running for tri and I won't stop that to train for DMD. I'm alternating weekends with tough rides and tough runs.

This is the only double either of us plans on doing, so we're working out ways to ride bits of the course mostly. This month we did Diablo Junction/MT and just MT from Heather Farm. That's the ride I bonked on. We were suppose to go the summit also.

Veronica

[maillotpois]

We did a great ride with Glenn last year as DMD prep - both sides of Hamilton from Alum Rock, then up Sierra. It was only 60 miles or so but with 9,000 feet of climbing! http://app.strava.com/rides/405601 Super fun ride. (Glenn suggested adding Sierra).

I will probably plan to do that route again about 3 weeks to a month out from DMD. I will let you know when.

You might consider throwing in some of the brevets I mentioned as your long ride for the month. I love starting with the 200k in January - it is a super fun/easy course for an early 200k. The February one is a lot harder. And this year it snowed. Both times I have done DMD the 400k was the perfect last long ride for me. And oddly the 400k always took almost exactly the same amount of time, even though both DMDs/400ks took quite different amounts of time for me (three hours less last year than 2007). It's a weird correlation and I am interested to see if it holds again this year.

That would be a challenge to fit it all in with the tri training.