Training # 16 - Damned Weather. Or not.
Tanked on this one. Ran outta gas at the 45 mile mark. Felt like the last half was a climb up Larch Mtn. Geez. Hillsboro was fine. Fast. But it was pretty windy in King City by the time I got there. Slow. This was supposed to be a seventy miler. Nearly got 60 miles in. I gotta eat better a couple days prior. And get a good night’s rest. Here’s to better days. Live. Learn.
58.47 miles; 15.5 mph ave; 4,098 ft elevation gain; 143 bpm ave.
Signed up for the Spring Century on June 3rd. The group from bike forums will join me for this and it will serve as “practice” for STP. This means a hard, fast paceline to finish in five hours. Careful preparation will make this so. I don’t want to feel like I did today. No way. As Tom would say. “We’ll be crushing souls and leaving them behind in our wake.”
As an aside, here’s a wildly different kind of roller. E-motion Rollers. Watch the vids. You can’t do this on regular rollers. Of course, now I want one. I call it the Burrito Ultimo Enchilado Style of indoor trainers.
Have a great holiday weekend. I’m off to the river for four days of beer. And fishing I guess. Naw, beer. Wait. Fishing. Well. Both!!!
I don’t have any of my pictures to share. So here’s some grapefruit art I stole from a guy named Garrett.
