Flatballer

Planning on putting in the miles this weekend. Aiming for 60 miles tomorrow, 100 Saturday, and 40 Sunday. Tomorrow and Sunday will be high tempo, Saturday will be aerobic. Total of around 12-13 hours probably. That will put me at 15 for the week. That's more than I've done since base ended in January. I feel like I've been taking it too easy. I'm gonna hit it hard until Sunday, recover next week, and then hopefully be able to do well at Conference championships next weekend.

Then the collegiate season is over and I have to start thinking about what I want to do race-wise for the rest of the year. I don't have a non-collegiate team, so I pretty much just pick races I want to do. Probably gonna tend towards crits and flat road races. We'll see how it goes.

ridethecliche

Really?

I would expect so much more from a ride that long. Haha, my TSS for that ride would have been like 600...

(but that's because i'm weak...)

substructure

Getting ready to head out for a tough 90+ mile training ride.
"Oh, please God, hold the rain for just a little while today. kthnxbai"

ridethecliche

Woke up today, right achilles feels sore and hurts a little.

It's too early in the season for a nagging injury.

I'll take this weekend off entirely and reevaluate how I feel on monday or tuesday morning. I might take a week off if necessary. I really want this to go away and not come back...

kensuf

It was good to see you out there on the lime.

AlexTaylor

Heh heh, cheers.

She's not very supportive to be honest, she doesn't want me to ride at all but is sort of resigned to the fact that I will be...

AlexTaylor

Blog updated...

https://napoleond.wordpress.com/

mollusk

I felt a whole lot better than I thought that I would.

Today is the anniversary of my Hipp ride that ended on Angle Road. While rolling out Hawthorne Road I was chatting with "Gutt" and he said that it said a lot about me that I do Hipp rides after that crash. I think that was a compliment, but my wife could say the exact same words and it wouldn't be.

Flatballer

Frigging rain.

I stayed out too late last night with friends I hadn't seen in a long time, so I didn't get up in time to get my ride started before the thunderstorms and stuff hit.

Tonight I'm not going out, and I'm gonna get up early tomorrow and get in 120 miles (longest I've ever done is 90, should be fun). Then I'm gonna pass out for a few hours before going out Saturday night. Then I've gotta get up early Sunday and do about 40 miles, and then to go Easter dinner, and then drive back to school.

For a weekend off, I sure am busy.

ljrichar

Went out on the normal Thursday route from last year w/ the usual suspects. Last year at this time I was getting dropped constantly. Last night I pulled a lot, never was gapped, made a few people hurt... awesome. What a difference it makes when you do SST in the winter & some early season racing. Granted, only a few of these people race but the rest are very strong rec riders. I owe a lot to them as they really encouraged me last year and are a big part of why I've been getting stronger. This stuff really works people, it just takes time & hard work.

SushiJoe

Fast Pedal 1m
Recovery 1m
Fast Pedal 1m
Recovery 1m
Fast Pedal 1m
Recovery 1m
Tempo 6m
Steady State 4m
Recovery 2m
Tempo 6m
Steady State 4m
Recovery 2m
Tempo 6m
Steady State 4m

Did this at 4:00 a.m. today-- couldn't sleep so figured I might as well ride.
I did a 10 minute warm up and cool down as well.

ridethecliche

Iced the achilles and it feels so much better an hour later.

It's 60 degrees outside and I'm starting to really itch for a ride...

Must. Let. Body. Recover. Or. Suffer. Far. Worse. Fate.

(ugh...)

kensuf

Dave's my hero. He's a class act kid and an incredible athlete. And if you think about it, there's a few people who were on that ride, and in that crash, that aren't on the hipp anymore.

BTW, did you notice Gutt's now sporting a cinqo?

umd

TSB at -16. Today is a rest day. Tomorrow is 100 miles with 12,000 feet of climbing. Sunday is a hard 50 mile group ride and if I have legs for it I'm going to do extra climbing after. That will be the end of a build and then I'm going to take a rest week.

timmyquest

How do you more advance riders do a "rest" week? What exactly does that entail..?

umd

I'm just going to cut back my volume mostly

mollusk

Thanks!

Wait, that isn't me. You must have meant Guttenplan.

Like Jayson, just off the top of my head.

No, but I'll scope it out next time.

substructure

Hard, nasty, wet 90 mile ride today. Lots of climbing, sprinting, and hard tempo. I tried staying up front as much as possible laying down the hurting - to myself mainly.

kensuf

Beer.

Actually, for the most part I'm following the 7-9 hours a week program (ride hard as hell 6 hours, ride easy 1-3 hours) and I find I don't need much in the way of recovery. But, I do take Sundays, Mondays, and Fridays off the bike; I'll run 30-45 minutes on Sunday and do core work (planks, transverse planks, and situps, yum) on all three "off" days.

kensuf

Well, you're my other hero. And I know Roger Montes thinks very highly of you (and some of the other guys sporting Orange and Gray have told me that they've "raced" against you on the GHT and were amazed at how strong you are).

He's a stud. I was hoping to go to Athens just to watch him race twilight, but it looks like I'm going to Miami to race over the garbage dump (and see the god kids) instead.

Eggsactly. Then again, he did break his neck in that crash.

It's funny, I only noticed it when the two of us were off the front together attacking the ride last night. It's strange what things you notice when you're pushing your HR above 195.

timmyquest

Apparently i'm 60 years old all the sudden and i slipped a disk in my lower back.

Training status--stagnant
Temperament--Stay the F away...

ridethecliche

What?

How the heck did that happen?

Apus^2

I took care of that a while ago Timmy--I had those pesky disks removed.

60 miles, 200 TSS, 3 1/2 hours, 6x3' VO2s @ 113%. The rest, just enjoying the ride.

timmyquest

I run an after school program at a middle school and was playing basketball with some 12 year olds. I crossed this kid up (broke his ankles dawg) and when i came up my back was sore.


I road the ride last night (2 hrs) and it hurt more...doctor today. I'm pissed off.

mollusk

Okay, you made be blush. Good thing I have this beard so nobody can see it.

I don't remember any "races" on the GHT. If it is wide open I might do SST type rides on it, but the stop signs every couple of miles suck. If I really want to hurt myself on a solo ride I ride on Hawthorne Road instead. It is much better suited for it.

It is always better to ride a race than to watch a race. Although watching a race in Athens, GA as opposed to riding on a landfill "hill" makes it a little bit closer and might even break the rule.

And "Gutt" is a nice guy and a great rider.

I remember standing in the middle of Angle Road (WTF? Standing in the middle of the road?) talking to Jayson after the crash. (It is one of the few clear memories I have because I really "had my bell rung". Perhaps it is good that I don't have vivid recollection of all of it. I did ride Angle Road this evening to "celebrate" the anniversary.) The one thing I remember saying was that I was coming back to do the Hipp rides as soon as I was able. Weird. Why would that come out of my head? The next time I saw Jayson was at the State road race champs and he said that he couldn't believe that I was doing Hipp rides again. Essentially he was telling me that I was crazy. He might be correct.

If my memory is correct Jayson had some other crashes with injury on Hipp rides, so I can see his point.