Anticipation
I haven’t posted in a while due to evening obligations. Not much to report, though.
I haven’t ridden a moving bicycle in a week and a half — since LAST Tuesday at Beatty. I’ve been on the Computrainer at Per4mance Training twice — the last two Wednesdays. Other than that, That’s it. Nothing. Nada. Zip.
I don’t know if my time off the bike affected it, (I’m sure it did), but this past Wednesday was the final assessment of my 12-week training program at Per4mance. By my “midterm” in early February, I had gained 13%, or about 20 Watts. I don’t think I did that well Wednesday. I know I squeezed out a few more watts, but not 20. I haven’t gotten the final results, but I don’t think it was more than 5 or 10 watts. Had I been on the bike more in the week leading up to the “final”, would I have done better? I don’t know. Does it matter? Not really. They’re just numbers. But, I like numbers. Maybe it’s my competitiveness, maybe it’s my need for data. I don’t know, but I wish I could go back and do it again. I do know I gave it all I had that night. I felt like I was going to DIE after the first four minutes, and it’s a twenty minute time trial! I ended up taking another ice bath that night. That’s like legal non-drug pain relievers. 10 minutes in ice, and the muscle pain is gone, with little to no soreness the next day. Only the first 5 seconds are uncomfortable. Wearing wool socks in the bath keeps the toes from freezing.
So, tomorrow is the Diva day trip to Uwharrie. This will also serve as my pre-ride for the Uwharrie Race on Sunday. I like Uwharrie. It’s a short race, but not easy. It’s a “sleeper”. It’s in the middle of nowhere, but you feel like you’re in the mountains. It has plenty of climbing, and some fun rocky stuff with a tough creek crossing and subsequent technical steep climb.
Uwharrie is the race I use to judge the effectiveness of my winter training. I usually surprise myself here and do better than I expect. We’ll see. I know there are more people showing up for this race than in the last few years, as I’ve talked a couple of Divas into doing the race. One of them will be in my class (Madonna). Also, last year’s race was on Easter, so turn out was low. At least with a good showing, I’ll have a better idea of where I stand…
So, I’ll report back after the race.
Jennifer fyi…….
Jeff fyi…
All, I am excited to see so much positive energy about the series. As one of the promoters of the Breck 100 we are just excited to be a part of it and showcase our event to an even wider spectrum of riders. This race is and will become a must ride endurance race in North America. The air is hard on all of us. I would not worry too much about even the locals having that much of an edge over you. I live right next to the course and it burns me. It is the type of race you are obviuously going to need the lungs and guns for, but in the end it will be those that have the mental advantadge that get out in front. We have the course even more dialed in this year and have “improved” some routes. We have some great sponors and prizes set up, and should be an exciting race. We do have a relationship with a resort in Breck(very nice place) Beaver Run Resort. They are one of our sponsors and give our race participants a very nice deal above and beyond their off season pricing. It is all on our site. Going to have a bar in town doing a post race party, in the same park that day is a national ultimate frisbee championship, so it should be a killer weekend. Come out to Breck!!! What I would recommend you do is come two weeks before the Breck100 and spend the July fourth holiday in the high country. You could come to a two day race / festival at Eldora Ski Resort west of Boulder and race in our two days of extreme XC madness, check it out at our site http://www.warriorscycling.com . That is on the 1st, and 2nd of July. The resort is opening up the area to camping, and will be serving beer and food, music ect… Then from there you could come to Breck and race the Firecracker 50 in Breck on the 4th. Great place to be on the fourth! Then you have another week to ride the course and get ready for the Breck 100. Hope to see you all out here!
Scott - Warriors Cycling
970-333-1349
http://www.warriorscycling.com
Written by: scott - Warriors Cycling at 2006/03/25 - 17:15:38
Oh, by the way we do award the NORBA SS State tilte at Eldora….
Written by: scott - Warriors Cycling at 2006/03/25 - 17:30:37