UCSD Triton crit, cat 3 - rolled in at the back of the pack.

Small race with 25 or so riders, and we had a good presence. We only managed a 3rd, but I feel good about my race personally. The race was very fast, at ~28mph for the 45min duration. Our small field featured more than a few seriously strong guys that attacked repeatedly; it only bunched up like two or three times briefly. I ended up with an IF of around ~1.

I took a few flyers off the front to neutralize small breaks or just take the pressure off of our guys in the pack. After one of these near the end, a seriously threatening break (without us) went up the road and the remainder of the race was just strung out, from about 7 to go on. I re-joined near the back and never really moved up as I was trying to recover and it was just lined out. A gap formed in the back of the pack before the last lap, with me and two teammates behind. I turned around and asked if they wanted a pull back up and it took everything I had just to get them back, so I rolled in behind the sprint.

Up front we had some serious presence chasing the aforementioned break down, and setting up Mason for the sprint.

^ I had a friend crash out in that race I think. Boss gave me the ok to come into work late next Sunday, so I'm gonna be racing my first actual race!

well...you get the idea.

lmao, i use this reference constantly

Today I was headed home a little before dusk, had forgotten my bike lights so I was in a bit of a rush to get off the road, and got pulled over running a stop sign. $140 ticket.





Can't win them all.

Thats ****ed. Sorry mang.

Today, I am officially over winter. We got a foot of snow last Wednesday. It is all gone, melted from the near 60°F and sunny Sunday we had. Tonight and into tomorrow? Another 3-6" of snow forecasted. So. Sick. Of. It!!!!

^Same here, after about a week of fairly nice weather we got snow all day yesterday. it's not so much the cold that bothers me but the ice patches and salty road grime that lingers. +1 for summer

Tell me about it. Been 70 all week. But today it's foggy. I hate winter.

70 and foggy? do you even winter?

It's not even that warm inside my house.

Windows are open here in Georgia. The daffodils are coming up and Red Bud trees are in bloom.

Seriously, the sun is brutal in the south and sunscreen will be needed soon.

true story, i'm pretty happy if it's 60 in my apartment.

Riding in the snow and cold is fun, but the salt it killer. I switch to a beater mountain bike in the winter because I don't want to subject my rides to the evil salt, and I don't have a garage or any convenient place to wash them.

Today I scored a bunch of huge palm trees my neighbor was getting rid of to make room for a new deck. I wasn't planning on spending my day off digging gigantic holes in my back yard and planting trees, but I suppose that's what's on the agenda now.

Today I saw this cool graffiti

And these interesting stools.

Score. Palm trees are expensive af.

Seriously. These are six huge, semi-mature trees too.

Luckily another guy I know who lives up the street has a little Bobcat and he's coming over later to dig the giant holes so I don't have to break my back doing it Sopranos-style.

yay no hot water!

How tall are they?

Welcome to the 3rd world.

plumbing still works so its like 2nd world, or i went back in time a couple hundred years

You're right!

nice score Scrod. Mature palms are indeed expensive af.

Did a 5x5' VO2 max workout this morning at Fiesta Island. Typically I would aim for ~112% (320w atm), but I was feeling ambitious so I did "Tmonk's progressive VO2 max challenge"

1: 315w
2: 320w
3: 325w
4: 330w
5: 340w! Really felt like I was unleashing the hounds over the last half of this one.

Nice!

DISLCAIMER: Typically I reserve these types of posts for the 33, but there are increasing numbers of you that are interested in training with power so I thought I'd post here. Plus I just feel really good about it .

I gotta learn about all this power watt crap