There seems to be something to this whole resting thing. Me and Alex did hill repeats on Thompson yesterday (3000′ climbing total…) and I felt completely awesome. Suddenly I don’t feel like such a weakling any more. Score. Still no sugar. Although I did have 2 bites of donut this m[...]
Archive for April, 2008
April 22nd, 2008 - 10:31 am § in Workouts
Some modifications
Week 2: Tuesday: intervals (1.5 hours) Wednesday: 50 miles 1-1.5 hours easy/moderate Thursday: 35-40 miles hill repeats >Friday: 1-1.5 hours easy Saturday: team ride Sunday: 3 hours easy Week 3: >Monday: 1-1.5 hours easy Tuesday: intervals (1.5 hours) Wednesday: 50-55 miles 1-2 hours easy/mod [...]
April 21st, 2008 - 8:16 am § in Race Reports
Race Report: Estacada TT
The weather reports spoke of hail and snow and the earth collapsing and the last rider of the apocalypse riding in and obliterating the northwest. Imagine my surprise as I headed out towards Estacada early Sunday morning to beautiful sunshine, despite the cold. The time trial location was a bit hig[...]
April 20th, 2008 - 7:41 pm § in Deep Thoughts
The alter-post: Game Face
Due to the apparent ruffling of feathers from my last controversial post, here is the other side of the coin. These are the things I think when I’m on the way to a race and on the trainer. I went from nothing to racing in 2 years. I can kick all these skinny girl’s asses. Bring on the pa[...]
April 19th, 2008 - 5:04 pm § in Deep Thoughts
Self-doubt
It happens to the best of us. I feel like I’m not really all that good at this biking thing. I feel like I’m probably in the average to low-average. I want to be special, to be that person whom surprises everyone with their strength, the one people talk about–she’s going some[...]
April 16th, 2008 - 10:40 am § in Cycling
Master Internets Plans
I registered and set up OregonWomenCycling.com I’m hoping to turn it into something of a social network that allows new riders interested in racing to hook up with teams, for new teams to form, for us to possibly discuss women-specific racing events, bikes/gear so on and so forth. I know there[...]
April 15th, 2008 - 8:31 am § in Cycling
Trackie!? and Elkhorn
I finally went out to the Velodrome on Sunday (yes, I literally live a 5 minute bike ride away) and jumped on a friends’ bike for a spin. It’s pretty amazing, and not nearly as scary as I thought it would be. Well, until you mix in the no-brakes and high speed racing part. But [...][...]
April 12th, 2008 - 9:58 pm § in Race Reports
King’s Valley
I am sad. And sunburned and sore. Despite feeling like complete shit when I woke up this morning, my legs felt excellent at the start. It was sunny, it was warm, I was feeling good, and this course spoke to me. Lots of rollers, no real huge climbs, I knew I could rock it. Unfortunately, on the [...][...]
April 10th, 2008 - 10:31 am § in Uncategorized
My head hurts
Ow. I think the BF shed his sick germs on me, and now I feel like my head’s going to explode. Can’t wait to race 56 miles on Saturday; I pre-reg’d, so I’m doing it, dammit. In other news, I installed a new stem on my bike yesterday. It’s actually a mountain bike stem, v[...]
April 8th, 2008 - 9:43 pm § in Workouts
You guessed it: Rest Week!
Willamette left my legs feeling like rubber. Monday was a complete break except a 60-minute easy yoga session. Today I did an hour on my trainer, 5×5 intervals at recovery pace (130bpm, 150bpm). This week I’m trying something new: rather then cutting down the cycling from 3 hard days duri[...]
