mattm

50 squats. planning on hitting up the trainer soon woo!!

Ygduf

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Wylde06

Whatever little bit of race fitness I had a month and a half ago (wasn't much...but I had high hopes for the rest of the season) is pretty much gone. Been trying to figure out whatever is going on with my right leg (I think I figured it out)...hopefully I can get back to doing intervals soon and pull something together for the last couple of races that I have planned

ShutUpLegs

Did some 15" sprints this morning as last prep before Ironhill Twilight Crit on Saturday, hoping to have a good first race and qualify for the finals at night. Rain is in the forecast so that could make things interesting. Also doing Bob Rodale Fitness Park Crit on Sunday

caloso

Heat related failure last night. 105F when I left the office and had an hour to do a set of 2' and 1' intervals. Got about 75% through my session and it just wasn't happening. Discretion being the better part of valor, I shut it down and rode easily home to take a cold shower and sit in the A/C.

aaronmcd

Day 7 post op:
Starting to feel better riding - today's ride almost felt like a real workout, for the first time in 3 weeks.
1 hour Z2 with 5x1x9 at 145%

Threw in some abs afterwards, one set hollow hold with 30 normal flutters, 30 flutters side-to-side, 30 high flutters and a few slow v-ups to almost failure.

hack

Sac River Ride last night. So flipping hot and spent way too much time on the front either pulling, attacking, or responding to attacks. Fun ride though.

caloso

Are you doing Coffee Republic tomorrow?

hack

I'm on the fence. Might ride down and do the Saturday river ride and make a long day out of it. Coffee will probably be pretty fast tomorrow with no races on the calendar close by.

tetonrider

what's keeping you off it? you probably said but if so i missed it.

mattm

nothing special, just a combination of being lazy and saving the gf the trouble of helping me set it up.

she's done just about everything for me for the past month or so that I've been an invalid..

plus the bike has a big crack in the downtube, not even sure if it's safe to ride. honestly guess I'm just not in a huge hurry to get back on it, tho i do miss riding and racing of course..

tetonrider

i'd have gone crazy without the outlet...but i had an aggressive plan to race (and get demolished!) in 4 weeks.

what factors went into you deciding not to get it plated? with the amount of pain/grinding i had, i can't imagine living that way. curious as to how long that pain actually lasted for you.

indigo

Hydrostatic Body Fat test yesterday. Down to 5%. Gained 2 lbs of muscle and lost 1.5 lbs of fat over the last 5 months. I've had this done every few months for the last 4 years so I now have a lot of good data. Big correlation between anaerobic power and lean mass as you might expect.

Patterson Pass tomorrow, very excited, starting to get anxious. The field looks beatable so far...

mattm

im plated like a mofo! 5 or 6 screws etc. had the surgery about 3 weeks ago.

there's no way the clavicle would heal without it, or if it would it would take forever.

it was a "distal third" break, out near my shoulder, which is why I have to wear the sling for 3 more weeks.

bmcphx

No training for months, got hit by a truck about 3 weeks ago and have broken back, neck, ribs, and clavicle, and both lungs were collapsed when the accident happened.

beatlebee 

OMG, I am sorry to read that. I hope you heal up quickly.

grolby

Holy cow, man. Best wishes on your recovery. Glad to hear you're still with us after a hit like that.

tetonrider

ouch! any head injury? glad you are alive!

bmcphx

I had a brain injury that was healing naturally. I may have got really lucky here but who knows if there will be complications or if things will revisit in the future.

mattm

@bmcphx ugh sucks man, so sorry to hear.

globecanvas

bmcphx I'm so glad to see you back and communicating. That was a scary couple of weeks! I know you're not fully out of the woods yet but I'm happy for what you've gotten back.

globecanvas

I'm pulling the plug on the rest of the season. I was signed up to race today but early this morning I just couldn't do it, my poor kid was up all night crying again, and it seemed too unfair to leave the family for 6 hours to go do a stupid bike race. It seems equally unfair to spend hours training and racing while the boy is recuperating. When he's back on his feet in September I'll think about racing again.

Instead I did the Saturday AM team ride, not-racing-today edition. Felt tired on the ride but afterwards was surprised at the good numbers. On the big climb I felt like everyone was going at an unusually casual pace, but I almost set a PR on the climb -- previous similar times (including just 2 weeks ago) felt much, much harder. Including the approach to the climb, it was a 15 minute power PR. Then a 5-15 second power PR at the end to win the sprint, the 2nd sprint in a row I've ridden away from everybody.

So obviously the fitness has clicked up a notch. Hopefully I can carry some of it over to next season.

revchuck 

Good call, GC. The kid needs you more than the bike does. Hope he's feeling better soon!

hack

Late start to the day and had planned for 80 miles with some rollers at an easy pace. Got about 25 miles in and temps hit 111F and I was hurting, turned around and rode home for about 50 miles. Just too hot today.

Moyene Corniche

Yesterday was not that great, not recovered from Wednesday's fest and just didn't have the legs to attempt to eclipse my 2 KOM's or for that matter the day's entire 103km ride average speed and time.
Will see what today's 110-120km feels like but legs were not pleased on the stairs this morning. Tomorrow they'll really be pissed..