Easy ride today and heading down to San Rafael for the Marin Double Metric Century tomorrow. Dinner with friends in San Rafael, looking for nice weather (hopefully less wind than we have been…
Active recovery ride as we taper down for the Marin Double Metric on Saturday, really looking forward to this course, should be fast and nice weather.
Distance 12.12mi Time 00:49 Felt tired
Endurance pace, so not too strong. Strong head winds the entire ride and could still feel the soreness from last night’s race. Total elevation climbed was 2,045 feet.
Distance 32.25mi Time …
Pre-race ride as the circuit race is not until 6p, nice easy ride with just some small lumps and bumps.
Distance 16.14mi Time 01:02 Felt goodOrganic Athlete Bloomfield Circuit Race, extremely windy and cold for this time of the year. The course is a solid lumpy bumpy course with three good climbs. I won the B handicap group and took…
Great ride on the West County Revolution Riviera Ride, this is such a great cycling and social event. The route today wandered through some of our home territories but covered some routes that I…
Hill Intensity Training
Great ride in the hills out of Santa Rosa which we had never done before, thanks to Kashy our mountain goat guide. First big climb was on Linchau which just gave and…
Climbing Acceleration drills on Pine Flat, a killer of a session but a PB for the year on climbing PIne Flat in 1:09:22 (for those who don’t know it, it is 12.6 miles and a climb of 3,141 feet)….
Spin Interval drills. Very nice temperatures but extremely windy. Felt sore from yesterdays drills but pushed through the best I could, not great pace. Total elevation climbed was 2, 469 feet on…
A new definition of pain, VO2 and sprint drills on Pine Flat. A great workout but definitely exhausted me. Total elevation climbed was 4,071 feet.
Distance 57.23mi Time 03:23 Felt good
Practice run of next week’s circuit race course, very windy and will be tomorrow, but at least the temperatures were more reasonable. Total elevation climbed was 1,579 feet.
Distance 21.05mi …
Kenwood to Cavedale to Mt Veeder and return on Trinity, one of the toughest climbing routes we do.
It was extremely hot as we waited to take off until after the tour was done this morning so…
Active Recovery Ride
Sore and tired, this was all I could muster today. Tomorrow is another day and is going to be spent climbing Cavedale, Trinity and other joyous climbs, looking forward to…
Spin Interval Training drills. Hot but not as windy as the past couple of days. Great ride out Westside to Geyserville and back via Chalk Hill. Total elevation climbed was 3,433 feet.
DistanceHill Sprint Interval training drills, in one word, painful. Hot this afternoon but put in a lot of effort, hopefully in two weeks I will be able to show some results from these drills. Total…
Harrison Grade Freestone Duncan Mills Sweetwater
Headed out early today to beat the heat from the past couple of days. Rode at a good pace, but not too hard, still in recovery and next week is…
Ran a practice lap on the upcoming circuit race course which seemed like it was always heading into the wind. My legs are still sore from Sunday so I tried to push but was not able to give it…
Active Recovery Ride
Easy spin into Sebastopol to work out the kinks in my legs.
Distance 18.55mi Time 01:03 Felt goodTags: recovery
LiveStrong San Jose Century
Great ride for the LiveStrong organization, tremendous support from the volunteers and the sponsors. The temperature was great for a long ride. We were paced for the…
Active Recovery Ride
Easy spin ride to stretch out my tired and sore legs.
Distance 18.55mi Time 01:06 Felt tiredTags: recovery
