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.
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