TheKillerPenguin

Smells like Jenkem.

canam73

You can identify that jenkem by scent?

grolby

Well, I'm going to do that, but it's a Very C race for me...

Jandro 

Rode to the top of Mt. Diablo to watch the ToC. Bummer they closed it with 2km to go... that's when it starts to get good. First real ride in weeks. Ribs still hurt, but I'm starting the slow ramp to get my fitness back. As soon as the road pitched up, the guys I was riding with just got further and further away. Oh well, it was a really awesome day.

shovelhd

Even if it's a Z race, going hard the day before makes no sense to me, but what do I know. I race criteriums.

TheKillerPenguin

Eh, my coach was having me do 3-4hr rides the day before all the bethels and johnny cakes, plus extra volume before and after the races. Seems to help in the long run.

DataJunkie

Using my inhaler on almost every ride. Time to talk with a pulmonary doc.
Yesterday a ride into Denver where I ran into teammates and rode with them for a bit. Encountered a squeaky as hell wheelsucker on the way down and rode him off of my wheel straight into an asthma attack.
Today intervals between rain storms.

ovoleg

niiice welcome back!

So where are the pics??

ovoleg

So me doing 5x5 intervals before the race wasn't as bad? hehe.

grolby

Lots. I may end up regretting it. We'll see. If so, I can always do something different next week. But maybe I won't regret. I have a history of responding well the day after a really hard ride - my best cyclocross results last season all came the day after getting myself ridden into the ground with fast groups.

mattm

lolwut.

Did it work, i.e. did you win those?

mike868y

willing to bet the point of doing 3-4 hour rides before early spring races wasn't to win the early spring races.

TheKillerPenguin

Correct. Prep work for stage racing and hard road races.

mike868y

tkp is also a 2 (iirc?) which i don't believe thechemist is, so his training goals and workouts will differ accordingly.

waterrockets 

I think this is the difference. If you're racing then it's one set of possible goals, but if you're using the race to train, it's another set of possible goals. I can see where just getting in the pack, and doing the speed work would be complementary to a tough week of training. Think of it as an expensive group ride.

TheKillerPenguin

That is incorrect, but will hopefully soon be correct. My coach seems to know what he's doing though, he's made my endurance days less hard and my hard days harder. I'm certainly riding less ****tily than I have in years, just waiting for the cast to come off so I can get back to business.

mike868y

****, you're still a 3. i'm going to have to race against you? damn.

grolby

And I'm going to have race against both of you once I'm back in NE. Life's a biatch, huh?

TheKillerPenguin

Who knows how I'm really going. Training is not racing, and visa versa.

mattm

That does make some sense.

mike868y

when's your next race back? i'll keep my eye on you.

mike868y

i'm nothing to worry about. i'm a middling cat 3 at best.

TheKillerPenguin

Cast comes off the 29th, so I'll be doing the Floyd Grand Fondo for training, then Wilmington-Whiteface the following weekend.

grolby

'twas a bit facetious. As TKP pointed out, there's training, and then there's racing.

rbart4506

Recovery ride with my wife and another friend...60min of fun in the sun followed by a nice stop at the cafe...