505TSS on 6.3hrs
A week of Life Happens, so ... yeah. Had a good Sat/Sun, gorgeous weather for the long run on Sun, Saturday's training was all indoors, but solid.
Still hoping for a sub 40 at the Mudpuppy, it's going to be painful though.
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Week 30 Summary
463TSS on 6 hrs.
Not a great week, even as a gap week before starting 8 week block leading up to Guelph Lake Olympic. The Boy is sick (thought we could make it to spring before it happened again). On the plus side, my fund-raising efforts for the MudPuppy chase are going well. This is the last week to get some training in...
Not a great week, even as a gap week before starting 8 week block leading up to Guelph Lake Olympic. The Boy is sick (thought we could make it to spring before it happened again). On the plus side, my fund-raising efforts for the MudPuppy chase are going well. This is the last week to get some training in...
Monday, April 15, 2013
Week 29 Summary and Paris to Ancaster race report
418TSS on 5.2 hours
It was a light week, mainly short, intense sessions (20-45 minutes, IF ~0.9) on the bike getting ready for Paris2Ancaster on Sunday.
10 days of rain/freezing rain/snow preceded this race, creating conditions so poor that the organizers had to chop 10k of off-road sections out (reputedly they were mostly still underwater).
Online discussions regarding tire / pressure selection were mainly "it's not going to matter; the mud will make it irrelevant, just put enough pressure in so you don't pinch flat, and make it easier to get through the road/rail trail sections."
I left Waterloo at ~6, stopped to get a coffee en route, and arrived at the Ancaster Community Center (the finish line) to park and put my bike on the shuttle van to the start line. I had my race kit already thanks to a generous friend who was picking them up en masse for other riders, so the only standing around was waiting for the shuttle van guys to show up.
I lucked out with my clothing choice, it matched the weather well: cotton undershirt, jersey, wind vest (plus a foldable jacket to wear waiting at the start line), arm warmers, cap, cycling gloves, wind mitts, tri shorts underneath bibs and knee warmers (plus my new XC30s, which probably still don't know what hit them).
Race start in Wave 1 was smooth, and we were soon blasting down the rail trail beside the Grand River, dry and fast. I was glad to have glasses, I took a couple small stones off them.
Heading into some of the single track sections, there were actually a few rideable lines left, which shows that starting as close as possible to the front really paid off. I've seen some video from later riders and it quickly turned into a quagmire
Speaking of quagmire, I managed to ride down all the mud chutes, which left my arms burning from throwing the front wheel around as I bounced off all the rocks buried in the mud.
Hooked up with a few small groups on the roads and shared pulls, which was nice. In summary, the weather was ideal (I started on my jersey tan lines), the fast sections were dry, and I managed to make it up the last hill, though I ended up looking like this after the finish line.
Finished in 2:25:09 (23.6k/h avg) (40:52 behind the winner), 275 O'all, 105/447 in M40-49.
It was a light week, mainly short, intense sessions (20-45 minutes, IF ~0.9) on the bike getting ready for Paris2Ancaster on Sunday.
10 days of rain/freezing rain/snow preceded this race, creating conditions so poor that the organizers had to chop 10k of off-road sections out (reputedly they were mostly still underwater).
Online discussions regarding tire / pressure selection were mainly "it's not going to matter; the mud will make it irrelevant, just put enough pressure in so you don't pinch flat, and make it easier to get through the road/rail trail sections."
I left Waterloo at ~6, stopped to get a coffee en route, and arrived at the Ancaster Community Center (the finish line) to park and put my bike on the shuttle van to the start line. I had my race kit already thanks to a generous friend who was picking them up en masse for other riders, so the only standing around was waiting for the shuttle van guys to show up.
I lucked out with my clothing choice, it matched the weather well: cotton undershirt, jersey, wind vest (plus a foldable jacket to wear waiting at the start line), arm warmers, cap, cycling gloves, wind mitts, tri shorts underneath bibs and knee warmers (plus my new XC30s, which probably still don't know what hit them).
Race start in Wave 1 was smooth, and we were soon blasting down the rail trail beside the Grand River, dry and fast. I was glad to have glasses, I took a couple small stones off them.
Heading into some of the single track sections, there were actually a few rideable lines left, which shows that starting as close as possible to the front really paid off. I've seen some video from later riders and it quickly turned into a quagmire
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| My poor bike |
Hooked up with a few small groups on the roads and shared pulls, which was nice. In summary, the weather was ideal (I started on my jersey tan lines), the fast sections were dry, and I managed to make it up the last hill, though I ended up looking like this after the finish line.
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| I remember thinking I'm hearing a camera |
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Week 28 Summary
884TSS on 12 hours. Bit of a bump in volume, the majority of it was on the trainer. Next weekend is P2A, so erm, panic training, I guess. Yesterday's 3-hour session was sort of reassuring that I won't totally suck, but I'll need to take it easy.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Week 27 summary
467TSS on 7.2 hours. CTL isn't going down as fast... I guess it's the right direction. Easter weekend also put a hold on any further weight loss.
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