My cycling journal
From the monthly archives:
My first race is a 30-minute Criterium on a dead flat course. To train for it I decided to do two laps on my TT route around Miramar lake which should come in at around 45 minutes. I didn’t feel super fast and my first lap time was a full 25 seconds short [...]
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Myself, Andy, Dave, Firger and the new guy, Chris we standing there in our cleats trying to decide where to go. I think we all started with the idea that we’d do a fairly flat 50 miles and be sure to end at Pizza Port. Then someone mentioned doing the Highland Valley Loop [...]
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Wanted to add a few training goals for 2008.
Ride three times up Palomar Mountain in a single day
Ride five times up Mount Soledad in a single day
Gotta get ready for those Alpes
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I think it’s doable. Sure it’s 105 miles with 7,500 of climbing, but that’s not impossible - is it?
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I just registered for my first race - The 3rd Annual Del Mar Criterium Series on March 12th and 22nd.
Wish me luck!
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If you’re training for your first century ride, check out the Trek Century Trainin Program. Andy, Dave and I rode with them several times last year and I found the group to be very cool and supportive to new riders. The ride leaders were very professional and had done quite a bit of planning [...]
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We were the lucky ones today. Everyone else was at work and Mark and I got to climb Mt Palomar via Lake Wohlford. Fifty-six miles, over four hours of ride-time, almost 6,000 feet of climbing - what’s not to love?
I got worked. No question about it. The ride itself was much harder than [...]
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What do you do on those cold, cold, cold days?
You climb. Keep climbing. Do another one. Sweating yet? Who cares, climb some more. Keep climbing until you pass out and then go down and do it again.
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Get to a bike race, originally uploaded by Arlyn Asch.
Took this shot at the 2007 Cascade Cycling Classic in Bend, OR last year. If you [...]
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I love riding from my house to the beach and back. Today I set a new record for myself riding up Torrey Pines hill - 4 minutes 48 seconds. That 20 seconds faster than my previous record. Beat that.
I thought I beat my record for a 3 mile TT along the 67 [...]
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