Training Status??? (IV)
07-13-17, 07:47 AM
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Don't feel like riding this morning, so I won't. I love this time of year 
. I'm racing F/S/Su anyway... I'll consider F to be my opener.
I can feel my fitness starting to (slowly) slip away, and I don't care. Gimme a couple months of this laziness and I'll get back on the grind.
. I'm racing F/S/Su anyway... I'll consider F to be my opener.I can feel my fitness starting to (slowly) slip away, and I don't care
. Gimme a couple months of this laziness and I'll get back on the grind.
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07-13-17, 11:01 AM
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I made myself do the benchmark climb yesterday. Last year I did about a 12-week build of climbing that ended with me breaking the 16-minute barrier and landing myself in (what is today) 30th on the climb on Strava. Of 19,000+, so foh with 1st or nothing attitudes.
Anyway, I thought I was complete **** yesterday when I couldn't hit 17:00 at the top, but it's been a while and I hit my lap timer at the wrong place. Strava put me in at 16:47 which I still felt like was complete ****, until I went back and realized I was 7 seconds ahead of run #1 last year. 7 seconds was about 2 weeks of work, so I'm starting from a decent place, all things considering.
I don't know that I'll be able to get as skinny. I am not as fat and am carrying a couple pounds of additional muscle, but overall it feels good to get that first effort in and not have it be disastrous. There are 20 seconds to be gained just getting familiar with the suck again.
16:47, 405w, ~185lbs again.
Anyway, I thought I was complete **** yesterday when I couldn't hit 17:00 at the top, but it's been a while and I hit my lap timer at the wrong place. Strava put me in at 16:47 which I still felt like was complete ****, until I went back and realized I was 7 seconds ahead of run #1 last year. 7 seconds was about 2 weeks of work, so I'm starting from a decent place, all things considering.
I don't know that I'll be able to get as skinny. I am not as fat and am carrying a couple pounds of additional muscle, but overall it feels good to get that first effort in and not have it be disastrous. There are 20 seconds to be gained just getting familiar with the suck again.
16:47, 405w, ~185lbs again.
07-13-17, 11:54 AM
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First day back on the bike in two weeks. Expected to be crap and was surprised to not be crap for the first hour. After 60 minutes or so, power dropped off a cliff. Yay.
07-13-17, 04:45 PM
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07-13-17, 09:20 PM
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Group ride today. First, like, hour something felt wrong on my bike. Indescribable. Knees too high, IDK. Hit the climb and it all faded away. IDK, just felt ever so slightly off. I'll check the saddle measurements and stuff, but it doesn't look like anything moved.. Felt good on teh first part of the competitive climb (new 3 min best power) and the nwe paused to wait for a car to go past and I got dropped from the lead 3. Oh well. No pauses at a race.
Cool experience was having one of the riders on the team that puts this ride on have his kids and family stand out and give bottle hand ups before the base of the climb. Free bottle + cool water right before a climb was great!
Cool experience was having one of the riders on the team that puts this ride on have his kids and family stand out and give bottle hand ups before the base of the climb. Free bottle + cool water right before a climb was great!
07-14-17, 12:11 PM
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90 minutes of tempo-ish. Felt super sluggish, but this is consistent with the first 4 or 5 days after being off the bike for a couple of weeks. Just gotta keep turning the pedals.
07-14-17, 03:43 PM
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Openers this morning. Slow!! I wasn't hungry and didn't eat dinner last night and road before breakfast so it was intentionally easier with just a few high cadence sprints to kick it up.
07-15-17, 03:39 PM
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So here's a thing: I made a conscious effort to remove crap from my diet this year. Hit my target weight and sorta kept going. Now at my lowest weight since 1993. I wasn't riding then. I was studying for the bar and my first marriage was falling apart, so I wouldn't recommend that as a weight loss regimen.
Might be time to let myself eat a few cookies again.
Might be time to let myself eat a few cookies again.
07-15-17, 03:59 PM
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Ctl/ATL at 103 / 112 after the race. Going to take it easy next week while the parents are in town. Probably just the group ride on Tuesday and then whatever will fit in the schedule. Need to take an easier week. Then we will start building towards the stage race in September.
07-17-17, 10:12 PM
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Bought a mountain bike today and took it out for an ~hour spin at the Ogden Bike park. Real good terrain, albeit a bit more rocky than I'm used to. This bike is a ton of fun. It has the RockshoxEI suspension that electronically controls when it goes plush vs stays hard. So far I'm super impressed with it. Dropper posts are also so, so fun.
Also had a big hit of adrenaline during the ride when I rode past a rattler. Took my brain no less than a blink to recognize what it was, start swearing and sprint away. Barely even saw the thing and it's my first run in with a snake ever, (we don't really have them where I come form in Seattle) but I was immediatly scared, like fight or flight scared. About 50m down the trail and I came to a stop and realized what had just happened. Holy ****, the brain is an interesting thing to recognize and assess problems and produce the right response so quick.
So in summary, TIL I'm afraid of snakes.
Also had a big hit of adrenaline during the ride when I rode past a rattler. Took my brain no less than a blink to recognize what it was, start swearing and sprint away. Barely even saw the thing and it's my first run in with a snake ever, (we don't really have them where I come form in Seattle) but I was immediatly scared, like fight or flight scared. About 50m down the trail and I came to a stop and realized what had just happened. Holy ****, the brain is an interesting thing to recognize and assess problems and produce the right response so quick.
So in summary, TIL I'm afraid of snakes.
07-17-17, 10:50 PM
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You were clear after 10 meters or so.
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07-17-17, 11:09 PM
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Bought a mountain bike today and took it out for an ~hour spin at the Ogden Bike park. Real good terrain, albeit a bit more rocky than I'm used to. This bike is a ton of fun. It has the RockshoxEI suspension that electronically controls when it goes plush vs stays hard. So far I'm super impressed with it. Dropper posts are also so, so fun.
Also had a big hit of adrenaline during the ride when I rode past a rattler. Took my brain no less than a blink to recognize what it was, start swearing and sprint away. Barely even saw the thing and it's my first run in with a snake ever, (we don't really have them where I come form in Seattle) but I was immediatly scared, like fight or flight scared. About 50m down the trail and I came to a stop and realized what had just happened. Holy ****, the brain is an interesting thing to recognize and assess problems and produce the right response so quick.
So in summary, TIL I'm afraid of snakes.
Also had a big hit of adrenaline during the ride when I rode past a rattler. Took my brain no less than a blink to recognize what it was, start swearing and sprint away. Barely even saw the thing and it's my first run in with a snake ever, (we don't really have them where I come form in Seattle) but I was immediatly scared, like fight or flight scared. About 50m down the trail and I came to a stop and realized what had just happened. Holy ****, the brain is an interesting thing to recognize and assess problems and produce the right response so quick.
So in summary, TIL I'm afraid of snakes.
Yesterday I had no intention to ride dirt, but I saw it and went. It was 13% average for a half hour of hike a bike lol. Pretty terrible actually, needed way more traction and way lower than 34x28! But then I hit some nice rolling rocky terrain and a short rocky descent good enough to consider technical af for a road bike! Good to wear me out trying to keep my rims and tires intact lol.
07-18-17, 06:33 AM
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doing an ftp test today to kick off the sweet spot base 2 plan on trainerroad, hoping to be up 10w from 7 weeks ago (243w over 20mins, hopefully 253 today), pray for me or something lol
07-18-17, 06:47 AM
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07-18-17, 07:12 AM
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Oh yeah, it was pretty awesome. Cervelo P5 with a disc! He seriously rips on it too, the guy has no fear.
07-18-17, 11:05 AM
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Pretty solid 2x20' sweet spot set. I'm considering this a mid-season mini-build.
07-18-17, 11:12 AM
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Rode my bike outside for the first time in a while this past weekend. My crash several weeks back left my hand a mess and riding was really painful. I've tried to maintain fitness through trainer sessions and I feel like I've lost some endurance and pop in the past 3 weeks.
Far from ideal with the Cascade Stage Race kicking off in 2 days. This will be my third time there and I've never started the race in decent form. The road race tweak works against me this year (opens with a 14 mile 3,000 foot climb) ... should be fun.
Far from ideal with the Cascade Stage Race kicking off in 2 days. This will be my third time there and I've never started the race in decent form. The road race tweak works against me this year (opens with a 14 mile 3,000 foot climb) ... should be fun.
07-18-17, 11:30 AM
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did the aforementioned ftp test, made it 15 mins averaging 254 before I overcooked, close enough, going with 240 for the ftp now.
07-18-17, 12:46 PM
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07-18-17, 12:53 PM
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I've been fairly lazy the last few weeks so I unleashed the hounds for a few hours before work this morning.
61 mi. w 2.3k elevation in 3:08, 210 w AP.
Up tomorrow: MTB commute.
61 mi. w 2.3k elevation in 3:08, 210 w AP.
Up tomorrow: MTB commute.
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07-18-17, 05:38 PM
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I rode for the first time in over a week. It may have only been three miles, and locally brewed 9% craft beer at less than $1 a bottle was the only thing capable of motivating it, but I survived. How low I have fallen to write those words. Illness can be just as debilitating as injury.
07-18-17, 06:44 PM
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Took 2 days off, today was an hour of spinning. The first few minutes were VERY stiff and quite slow, then started feeling more and more normal.