Posted in Training Rides on April 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Rode out to Hesperus and back today (click on the image to see a better view on the stats). It’s a “nice” climb and then lots of downhill to finish off the ride. After the Bread ride yesterday, my legs were tired! I decided to top off the pain with the short steep up 8th [...]
Posted in Riding, Training Rides on November 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Two days of rest on the legs after the Temecula race on the singlespeed still wasn’t enough to avoid the leg pain from Palomar Mountain’s climb, but it was a good pain and a great ride!
On our way from CA to AZ, we picked up a quick route near San Diego. Starting from Nate [...]
Posted in Riding, Tours and Races, Training Rides on May 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Did the Santa Fe Century with Paige on Sunday. The morning started out beautiful. The temps were reasonable with partly cloudy skies most of the day. I got a short bit of rain, but nothing too bad.
This is a super fast century with only 4640 foot of elevation climbing. It was great for me since [...]
Posted in Training Rides on March 27, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Got in a quick 3-hour ride with Matt today. Lot’s of fun working on building up the mitochondria. I got to end it with the climb to the blue tram tower. I made it further up the first face than I normally do, but still only to that 2nd sand bar on the last leg [...]
Posted in Training Rides on February 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
While the majority of our friends were riding the 24 Hours of the Old Pueblo (stats are already up!) representing FooMTB, Matt and I took a road trip to Anaheim, CA for the 2007 Butterfield Double Century (results here).
This weekend great beautiful, minus the wind. The high was 88 degrees! What a nice change from [...]
Posted in Biking, Riding, Training Rides on February 5, 2007 | 5 Comments »
….at cycling’s core lies pain, hard and bitter as the pit inside a juicy peach. It doesn’t matter if you’re sprinting for an Olympic medal, [...]
Posted in Riding, Training Rides on January 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
What a great day! The sun was out, the temps weren’t bad…no excuse to stay in side! So, Matt took off with the usual suspects in the enduro gang and they all went out toward Cabezon for some dirt road mud fun on the singlespeeds (well, most of them were on SS 29ers). Here’s more [...]
Posted in Training Rides on January 22, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Well, I’m one week into my training program and I’ve managed to stick it out this long. Only 27 or so more weeks left to go.
Matt, Jens, Lenny and Nate decided to ride around in the snow. Those guys are nuts, but they had a blast!! Check out Matt’s blog for some great [...]
Posted in Training Rides on January 20, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I’m using Dr. Michael Ross’s training program for my “get in shape” plan. I’m using his book, Maximum Performance for Cyclists.
Matt and I tested ourselves Wednesday morning on the trainer to get some stats. Unfortunately, my chart doesn’t have the nice “bends” in the curve to tell me what my aerobic and lactate threshold rates [...]
Posted in Riding, Training Rides on January 15, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Training officially starts tomorrow–with 2 consecutive rest days. I’ve been working hard this past week, waking up and riding the trainer before breakfast, and getting everything planned out for the hypertrophy phase. I figured out the appropriate weight I’ll be lifting in the gym on Saturday, and today, I tried out a mitochondrial biogenesis ride [...]
Posted in Riding, Training Rides on January 10, 2007 | 3 Comments »
In hopes of getting in some road riding and escaping the cruddy roads in Albuquerque, Matt and I took off for Phoenix for the weekend. It was cool in Phoenix, only in the 60s for the highs, but a heck of a lot better than the Abq weather, and the roads were clean!
Saturday was the [...]
Posted in Riding, Training Rides on November 26, 2006 | No Comments »
This Thanksgiving break, I decided to pummel my leg muscles to their weakest state possible. It started out rather simple~~
Monday–lower body/abs weight lifting
Tuesday–elliptical machine 1st thing in the morning before breakfast
Wednesday–commute to work
~~and then it got much tougher~~
Thursday–Turkey Day Century
Friday–hypertrophy for lower body and hip strengthening
Saturday–ATALAYA!!
The stats: 10 really steep miles; 2 [...]
Posted in Riding, Training Rides on November 24, 2006 | 5 Comments »
Well, Matt is doing his best to get me in shape for the upcoming Death Valley Double Century–which is already sold out!! 300 rider limit…this thing is pretty popular. Anyway, to celebrate Thanksgiving, we decided to do a century around the area.
Ride stats: 100.55 miles, 6:31 total time (2 pit stops, a snack break, and [...]
Posted in Training Rides on October 8, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Well, we decided to do house chores today, so we went out for one of those quick, hard rides where you get a lot of bang for your buck, but you are left very tired afterwards. We started from the house, climbed Cedar Hill to the top, then headed down to the Casino and back [...]
Posted in Training Rides on October 6, 2006 | 6 Comments »
The Garmin was a tool I thought I didn’t need. The cost is outrageous, and it seemed more gadgety than useful, but I broke down and bought it…Matt said I wouldn’t regret it, and he was right. I’m really starting to learn more about my biking and what my body is doing when I’m really [...]
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