Saturday, February 20, 2010

great day

20th day on the bike this month.

And what a brilliant day.

Rolled out of the house at 11:40. Got back at 3:50pm.

Got into the city a touch early and exchanged a handful of quarters for a macchiato pre-ride. So there was about 20 minutes of that early on where I wasn't riding.

I had the Giant TCX, fenders and Marathoon Plus 28c tires inflated to 50 psi, tied and soldered spokes cross gearing. Marcus showed up on his C-dale with Record 11 speed cosmic carbone wheels and nice light 23c tires. Naveen and Casey also showed, not as fancy but way lighter faster wheels than me. And fuck I had to listen to watts watts watts most of the ride. Two SRMs and a Power tap. FML.

Can't escape that shit. At one point casey did some 15 minute interval. We all sat on, it felt pretty fuckin easy honestly. I don't know what his watt target was.

State line sprint I lost when casey went around and as I jumped my foot pulled out of the old 747 pedals. Oops. Not enough space to wind it up and come around him. But on the next sprint, it was mine. 46x12 and all, downhill lead in. MINE.

God that was fun.

One bottle of Powerbar drink mix over the course of the ride. No food until i hit the bike path then i scarfed down 6 Margarita blocks and a pair of Cocoa Mole Larabars. Legs all around are hosed but man - got some really solid intensity in there hanging on to those little fuckers and their light bikes. Couple good long speed sessions, some hills, nice variety.

Sore.

So how ever long that is, lets see. 12:35-3:50 is 3:15, add the 40 minutes on the front side and well that's a pretty decent ride for someone who won't be racing longer than an hour anytime in the foreseeable future, hell if i have my way all year (D2R2 doesn't count).

tired.

just on the edge of cramping, not quite there though. Timed it just right, fueled just right.

There's a weird lumpy feeling in the rear wheel, look straight, and unweighted it runs true. Tire's looking good, gotta be a broken spoke or something. Time to check it out

Oldest wants to go for a little ride now. Back out to add enough time on the bike so I can call it officially a 4+ hour day. FTW.

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5 comments:

Jonny Bold said...

Too bad about the state line, double points there you know. Are you serious about the carbon wheels on a February winter ride? Wow! We had 11 guys today, I didn't see any power taps srm's or race wheels, in fact fenders were mandatory. I like that you went back out with your kid because it would make her happy. Anytime you got a kid that wants to ride bikes with Daddy it's a good day. Good on ya Gewilli.....

6:18 PM
gewilli said...

I could barely walk out the door when we left for our little ride.

But I felt 100x better by the time we got back. Saw Kip Bradford on the path. Passing High Fives!

Really amazing how much that 20 minutes riding with her helped.

They were the aluminum braking surface ones, but yes. Serious about it. Oh well. I feel good about how much harder i was working than they were.

There were a lot of other guys riding around out there. One Union Velo riding solo Tatar and a few others.

Tomorrow I'm going to see if I can get my wife's Santa Cruz Bontrager Race Mt bike to fit my oldest. should be close.

8:44 PM
Il Bruce said...

I only saw one other person out yesterday. Over by the Moses Brown fields in Rehoboth.

Young guy, couldn't ride a straight line. I slowed up to have a chat, I was in no hurry, and when I looked back he was gone. I have no idea where he turned.

Hard to believe that I saw so few bikes out.

Had dinner with Solo and the BOBs last night.

7:40 AM
G-ride said...

ugh, i am going to have to try to get full fenders on one of my bikes. of course, the roads here are so damn wet and salty it just kills me to drive my car on them, let alone fancy bike bits. We got another 8 inches last night, then 40 on Monday so we will get seriousl meltage going. I am trying to keep up with some skate skiing, but i suspect its just making me sweaty. really sweaty. at least its fun, and at least i FEEL like riding right now, which i have not felt like doing this time of year for a LONG TIME. I think staying right the fuck on the hard workouts all the way thru cross nats really helped mentally. and oddly, being more e-connected to people this year thru blogs and twitter actually makes a difference in the "itch" to ride as well.

4:49 PM
trackrich said...

1 bottle and no food? You deserved to cramp ;)

Oldest's LAX clinic and youngest's karate class meant I could only be in the basement for 90 minutes watching Bad Boys II and banging out some intervals and some high cadence work. Made it outside today for like 2:15... twas a good day.

8:38 PM

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