Wednesday
Went on the GAS training ride. We 1) rode around the trees for a while 2) went to Pete's hill and rode down the trail and rode up the hill for two laps and ran up the hill for two laps. Then we rode this single track on Pete's that I have never known about and progressed over to Sourdough Ridge road. The ride over was pretty hard. I got a flat so the others rode and ran laps while I fixed it. At Sourdough Ridge we did 5-1 minute+ as hard as you can up the steep hill. Raced John on the last one and got a good climb in. I had a huge headstart. Felt like we dinked around for a while, but was pretty tired the next day. Riding in a group can make the suffering more enjoyable.
Thursday
Had a nice run and then did some core/weights in the yard. Mostly squats, lunges, pushups, and core. Am going to try and do weights at the gym. Want some more arm stuff than just pushups.
Friday
Good ride. Went with John, Lisa, and Erik over to the fairgrounds and rode around while John plotted the course for the GAS race. Good place to go. Good easy skills practice. Finished off on the BMX track trying to pump around the track. Couldn't pump that far, but got fairly high on the burm.
Sat.
Worked on cross bike so wanted to ride it to make sure it was functioning. Got a stomach ache/cramp/heartburn on the way home. Miserable. Had to stop and lay down in the shade a couple of times. I don't think Gatorade sits well with me. The sugar is to much.
Sunday
Super excited to race. Decided I need to have the same attitude for cross that I had for the triathlon season. Very positive and fun. Some of those other girls can be the biggest head cases and I honestly don't really understand why. I am going to go out and race my hardest at every race and enjoy it!
Race was fine. I rode as hard as I could except when I let Lindsy go. For some reason I felt bad sitting on her wheel. Like it was not the right thing to do. Feel I am in the right place though. Anna, Lisa, and Lindsy are all really cyclocross focused. Felt good keeping at least Lindsy in my sites. I wouldn't mind winning a race though, or at least being on the podium. This racing scene is hard!
Monday
Run on the new trail at Pete's and go to the gym for weights! Focused week this week!
9/26/2011
9/19/2011
9/13/11 thru 9/21/11
Tuesday
Found a good place for doing these. I tried on the grass a couple of times, but it wasn't very smooth. The road is a slight uphill into Lindley park. It ends in the cemetery which made me chuckle since John used to ride there last year and asked us if we thought it was morally okay to ride in a cemetery. These were tough. At about 50 seconds my legs would just die. I did all 8. The long recovery helped.
Wed.
Rode around town for an hour and went home to get measured. Of course Paul didn't show up. Went down to the 100 acre park for some more practice. Took Erik and Ben with me. The wind was blowing and the sun going down. We ended up not riding for soo long. Did ride around and practice some skills though.
Thursday
Ran after work. Nice solid run on the trails in town. Did some good post run strength and core.
Friday
Tired all day, and it was raining, but stopped by 4:30 or so. Did the intervals. Have done these before on Story Hill. Makes for a good hard climb. Pushed all of these pretty dang hard. was thinking a lot about my form and really focused on getting forward momentum. Felt like it made me faster. Tried pushing even harder in a few places, felt like a surge. Would usually have to back off a little. On the 3rd one I pushed really hard on part of the hill this is flatter and I usually use to recover a bit. It didn't work. Burnt out my legs and was dead for the next few minutes. Didn't get as far as the 2nd interval. Had some good practice at what is too much and at staying within my limits so I don't blow up.
Sat.
Run in the am. Nice and easy.
Oops. Mountain bike has no rear cassette. Found this out after I got all the way out to Leverich. Put it back in the car and went and got my cross bike. Did two laps at Leverich on the cross bike instead. One switchback is pretty steep and long. It kind of undulates. Don't have a lot of gears on the cross bike. Just one front chainring. So had to stand up on all the little rollers. It was hard. The first lap I was definitely not looking forward to the second lap. Coming down was fun. I find it sort of funny that all these pushers ride that downhill. Obviously you don't need that big of a bike for that trail. Anyway, the second lap was sooo much easier than the first. Each lap took about an hour.
Sun.
Went out on a ride with Ben. Rode from the house over and up some of Triple Tree. Then up Bozeman Creek. Ben showed me a nice single track I didn't know about before. Finished off with a ride down Leverich and back home. Total time was about 4 hours. Lots of climbing and quick descents.
Feel like this was a very training focused weekend. Was actually pretty pooped every evening. I tried to put a lot into each day.
Mon.
Feeling pretty tired and sore today. The ride was also kind of a flop. I planned to meet a friend for dinner. Perfect timing. Got home got on the bike and it started raining. Went home. Switched the cassette from one wheel to another to at least warm up on the trainer. Took me a while. Got on the trainer. Rode for 15 to 20 minutes. Then it stopped raining. Went outside and did the 4 intervals. Got home to leave for dinner. Total time was probably more like :45 minutes. My lower back was really tired and sore on the bike today. Probably from cranking up Leverich on the cross bike.
Skipped the core workout. OOps.
9/13/2011
9/7/11 thru 9/14/11
Wed.
Did the GAS training ride. It was really pretty tough. We rode up to the top of Story Hill which took about 15 minutes of hard effort, then we rode down the trail. The rocks were big and the trail not very smooth. Could feel my wheels whacking the rocks. We re-grouped at the bottom and rode over and up the dump road. The road is a series of steep uphills followed by some small down hills. Went all out on the uphills. Then we did 4 laps at the hour of power hell hill. It really is a cool loop. As you go round and round you can watch the sun set. I always expect a bear to walk out of the trees there too. On the way home I got a flat. Huge nail wedged in my wheel. Matthew stayed with me and helped fix it. Finished ride at the Holiday Inn lounge to attend a Mule Cross planning meeting. Pretty tired from ride.
Feel a little bit out of shape. All the long distance stuff hasn't been helping me with the short punchy stuff.
Thursday
Went home after work and ran. Then did yoga with a focus on core for 30 minutes. Went to meeting. At meeting brought up pool issues. Had a good talk with the aquatics director and got an email from Bob Wade the next day wanting to add the pool problems to the agenda next month. Glad to get the ball rolling.
Friday
Rode after work. Spent a little time fixing my back tire. Finally got the tire on myself. Makes me feel better. Need to get a new hand pump. Rode around town on the trails. Practiced mounting and dismounting and doing it with some speed. Feel like I jump on my bike too hard. Need to be smoother. Tuesday night is skills night, can maybe get some more tips.
Sat.
Drove to Plentywood. Mom and Grandma dropped me off at the farm about 25 miles outside of Plentywood. I had brought a Montana atlas so I had a great map of all the roads. That area is filled with dirt farmroads. Pretty cool. Found an unimproved road that I was riding almost waste deep in grass with pheasants flying up all around me. Did the intervals and it was a good thing because if I had ridden any slower the sun would have been down. Rode 2.5 hours total. Really love the riding up there. Rolling hills not up or down like it is here. Watched the almost full moon come up as the sun set. Decided it would be cool to ride from there to Bozeman with a Montana atlas going one page at a time.
Also had some discussion in my head about my cyclocross focus. Got a better and more positive vision than I have had. Can just see those girls falling behind. Its all about having a vision and a goal right?
Sun.
Ran around town in the morning. Found their swimming pool. Nice little town. Lots of campgrounds.
Got dropped off the the farm again. This time I had a different route that didn't involve the highway. It was also a little later, so I knew I would be riding in the dark. Spent probably a good :45 to an hour in the dark under the full moon. Saw a porcupine. Rode pretty hard just to get to town faster. Also, in Plentywood when somebody says thats just 3/4 mile extra they really mean 3-6 miles extra. Good ride. Probably more like 3 hours this day.
Monday
Did not get the big ride in. Left later and got home around 8:30. Did go for a 30 minute run and did some lifting and core for about 30 minutes. Can we plan on the hard ride tonight? Maybe not do the GAS ride tomorrow, or have low expectations? I see the hard/easy plan and I kind of messed it up.
Also, Paul Taylor wants to measure me for a bike. Might be his sponsored ride. We'll see though. Want to go and get measured tonight. Excited!
Side note: Not going anywhere this weekend. Need a break. The month of October is packed with travel.
Lots of good things this week. Got my motivation back to get out there and train and race. Excited to focus on cross for a little while.
Did the GAS training ride. It was really pretty tough. We rode up to the top of Story Hill which took about 15 minutes of hard effort, then we rode down the trail. The rocks were big and the trail not very smooth. Could feel my wheels whacking the rocks. We re-grouped at the bottom and rode over and up the dump road. The road is a series of steep uphills followed by some small down hills. Went all out on the uphills. Then we did 4 laps at the hour of power hell hill. It really is a cool loop. As you go round and round you can watch the sun set. I always expect a bear to walk out of the trees there too. On the way home I got a flat. Huge nail wedged in my wheel. Matthew stayed with me and helped fix it. Finished ride at the Holiday Inn lounge to attend a Mule Cross planning meeting. Pretty tired from ride.
Feel a little bit out of shape. All the long distance stuff hasn't been helping me with the short punchy stuff.
Thursday
Went home after work and ran. Then did yoga with a focus on core for 30 minutes. Went to meeting. At meeting brought up pool issues. Had a good talk with the aquatics director and got an email from Bob Wade the next day wanting to add the pool problems to the agenda next month. Glad to get the ball rolling.
Friday
Rode after work. Spent a little time fixing my back tire. Finally got the tire on myself. Makes me feel better. Need to get a new hand pump. Rode around town on the trails. Practiced mounting and dismounting and doing it with some speed. Feel like I jump on my bike too hard. Need to be smoother. Tuesday night is skills night, can maybe get some more tips.
Sat.
Drove to Plentywood. Mom and Grandma dropped me off at the farm about 25 miles outside of Plentywood. I had brought a Montana atlas so I had a great map of all the roads. That area is filled with dirt farmroads. Pretty cool. Found an unimproved road that I was riding almost waste deep in grass with pheasants flying up all around me. Did the intervals and it was a good thing because if I had ridden any slower the sun would have been down. Rode 2.5 hours total. Really love the riding up there. Rolling hills not up or down like it is here. Watched the almost full moon come up as the sun set. Decided it would be cool to ride from there to Bozeman with a Montana atlas going one page at a time.
Also had some discussion in my head about my cyclocross focus. Got a better and more positive vision than I have had. Can just see those girls falling behind. Its all about having a vision and a goal right?
Sun.
Ran around town in the morning. Found their swimming pool. Nice little town. Lots of campgrounds.
Got dropped off the the farm again. This time I had a different route that didn't involve the highway. It was also a little later, so I knew I would be riding in the dark. Spent probably a good :45 to an hour in the dark under the full moon. Saw a porcupine. Rode pretty hard just to get to town faster. Also, in Plentywood when somebody says thats just 3/4 mile extra they really mean 3-6 miles extra. Good ride. Probably more like 3 hours this day.
Monday
Did not get the big ride in. Left later and got home around 8:30. Did go for a 30 minute run and did some lifting and core for about 30 minutes. Can we plan on the hard ride tonight? Maybe not do the GAS ride tomorrow, or have low expectations? I see the hard/easy plan and I kind of messed it up.
Also, Paul Taylor wants to measure me for a bike. Might be his sponsored ride. We'll see though. Want to go and get measured tonight. Excited!
Side note: Not going anywhere this weekend. Need a break. The month of October is packed with travel.
Lots of good things this week. Got my motivation back to get out there and train and race. Excited to focus on cross for a little while.
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