Me and Kerin's mom road along the Solvang 1/2 Marathon course to watch Kerin run. She did great! 2:14 PR! non real ride data as we were out there just to see Kerin and cheer her on :) Good times! Activity
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Thursday, May 8, 2008
Great post work ride! easy pace to start as we were with the Gary Fox crew. down to wagon wheel and then up the shits.... I dabbed once on the new switch backs and walked the top 20% as it was uber loose. Then down the tunnels and one loop around the top. We didn't have lights so we split off. My legs were feeling fresh and good, so we turned it on thru the fire break and then down cobles. Kept with it past the water fall and then thru the canyon to Lopez. On lopez I went 80% felt great, paced Matt on his single speed. He cleared it! Go Matt!! back to the car and pack for Solvang! Activity
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Grey day almost didn't ride, but we realized a little drizzle wasn't gonna make us melt. so after leaving my bike at home I headed home and grabbed my gear and headed to Joe's form there we went to his work to grab Matt and off and up Torrey pines we went. From the start at Joe's I wasn't feeling uber hit, legs a bit slow to respond. was warmed up once we got to get Matt and then we went over to the water. Torrey Pines was INSANE! it all started when Matt put the hammer down at the bottom. I hung with Joe but Matt was hammering so I dialed it up and took off I thought if I put in a big effort I could catch him. No way I cranked it up and was hurting then I looked at my HR monitor I was in he 190's and we were 15% up the climb so I backed off. Joe caught up and we ran a strong tempo up the climb at about 50% up Matt started to falter I could see his shoulders rocking his form becoming labored... I yelled to Joe "We can catch him!" we picked up the tempo and started to reel him in. I saw him look back and he saw us catching so he got out of the saddle I knew this was it if I let him go he'd be gone. So I dropped the hammer and bridged the gap dropping joe, and I flew past Matt. I knew I didn't have that much but I figured that if I flew by him he'd give up and not try and grab my wheel. It worked for a bit but he caught back on and passed me. I grabbed his wheel immediately and he put in a couple HARD accelerations. I matched all his moves, and then he sat up and I pushed by him braking open ~100 yrd gap. I kept an eye on him as I was loosing speed and couldn't keep the pace the whole time. 90% up and out of nowhere Joe flys past me, I slapped the shifter till I ran out of gears and hammered with everything I had and I catch and pass him and I don't stop putting the hammer down till I get to the top! That one HURT! but that was fun! after that it took me a few miles to recover, I had a bad cramp in my side and was tired! we then headed down to the Cove and then up the scripps pier climb. Me and joe had a bit of a gentleman's agreement and just cruised up that climb as it hurts at any pace. We cruised up then back down to joe's house great ride! Activity
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Sunday, May 4, 2008
Great day back from a few days off after the race last weekend. Hit up and Ol' favorite Noble Canyon! we were cooking, I felt a lill off as I haven't been spending any time on my flat pedals and my legs were a bit slugish from the time off but I road the whole initial climb and 2nd climb. flowy funnest on the main decent. I was rockin my new heltmet cam so I'll have vids up soon. I road the entire extra credit section also. So while I might not have been uber fast I def saw a fitness increase from my last ride there 2 months ago. good times! Activity
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Here it is the Beantown Boneheads hit up the 24hrs at Vail Lake! I was up for the start I prep'd by staying cool if I could as temps were in the mid 90's by 11am, spun on the trainer for ~15mins. Got to the line and jogged the lemans start trying to keep the HR down and not get to my bike last. Hit the course and while I tried not to I went out pretty hard. Me on the start  I road thru the sand pit, hit the fire road and proceeded to pass a bunch of people who obviously went out too hard on the run. Into the main climb, there was a bit of traffic that tossed me off a few lines, but not too bad. I passed a few peeps and got passed by a few. Once at the top I Rocked the decent passing people left and right and thats when I realized that the main climb was only one of many. The course was full of short steep climbs, I hit more traffic on those short steep climbs as people would make it up 80% and didn't have the juice to get up the whole thing, I rocked the descents and only dabbed 2-3 times on the whole lap! Heat was BAD! "What did they do bury fuckin heaters under the dirt! the sand feels like it on fire" some british guy riding with me. The legs felt great, the lungs a bit irritated from the hot dry air, the stomach was a mess.... the heat really put the hurt on my stomach by mile 8 I was getting vomitious and dialed it back to stop the digestional pyrotechnics. I finished up strong and jumped right into the pool chami and all which was 70F and shocked the crap out of me! but got my body temp down. I then drank ~2 liters of gatorade, 2 potatoes, and ~1/2 a lb of pasta. Activity
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After the break I was nervous and anxious. This was my lap! I did the first lap in the heat for the chance to get one more day lap in and kill it. My HR was high due to the adrenaline! Chris came in and I was OFF, sprinted out of the gate, thru the sandtrap and onto the fire rode. I hit the fire road hard! cranking!, I hit the climb and pushed it! I hammered 100% I kept saying in my head leave nothing on the trail! all out! well I didn't go ALL out as I knew that it was a 10 mile course but tried to keep my HR under 185 when I could on the climb. The heat was backing off the sun was setting and while I had my bar mount light on due to the rules (all laps started 1 hr before sunset have lights) I didn't want to use them. I got to the top of the climb in around 25 mins. On the next decent I white knuckled it putting all four fingers on the grips no brakes! I passed 3 or 4 people here. Hit the next short climb and hammered, the next super steep short approach I hammered and cleared it (HR must have been in the mid 190's at that point) I rocked the decent clearing all the switchbacks and rocking the fire road transitions. Next came the smooth graded road short climb, I dropped it into the grany gear but kept the speed up and rounded the turn at the top with authority. again on the decent no breaks! till I hit the single track then it was a mix of late braking, manualling the whoops, sprinting out of the corners and boarder line out of control riding. Hit the bottom of the main decent and tried to keep the speed up as I climbed up the "ambulance road" into the tunnels of love and I tore thru there, ripping the turns catching air over the little climbs as I was holding my momentum thru out. got to the fire road and started heading back up the small climb to the insanely steep short climb up to the ridge and got off and RAN it! jumped back on my saddle (ouch that kinda hurt!) and grind away hit the Whoops (steep up hills followed by steep drops) was going so fast I aired out the tops on each one tossing in a lill whip and turn down (style was key but rather stupid looking back as I was pretty out of control and could have lost it at any time) Now was the mile 8 sand section! I was getting burnt, I was starting to feel a bit sick and the heat was still getting to me, I didn't want my HR to spike heading thru the sand so I jumped off and ran which was a good thing as I looked at my HR getting back on the bike and it was only 175ish if I road it I'd be in the 190's. Up the last quick climb and BAM!!!! my left hamstring locks and cramps! hard! I get a couple more pedal strokes in to get to the top of the short climb and now its all down so I go no brakes down the decent gaining speed for the military climb while trying to stretch the leg out. I hit the Military climb and the leg locks again! I made it about 75% up on momentum alone and one legs hopped up the rest. I was hurting had to stop for a moment as I couldn't pedal! I took the moment to put my sunglasses in my camelpack, took the baton out and had my RF ID card ready (things I was gonna have to do at the end before I could clock out anyway. All while stretching that hamstring out and screaming in pain (that hurt so insanely bad!) after about a 30-45sec break I got back on my bike its Mile 10! I'm on the home stretch I hit the last decent sketchy fast! rip the turn to the fire road and wheelie out sprinting all OUT! I knew kerin would be right there and with the falling sun it was hard to tell who was who but she said she could tell who I was from my grunting and yelling as I flew by! (I was trying to show off ;) I hit the left hander into the camp grounds and leaned over so far I though to my self do my tires have tread this far over? I sprint hard out of the turn put my hands in the center of my bars my chin on my stem and turn my hardest gear all thru the camp ground, people turning to look and cheer me on as I'm not coasting in on this one. I was hammering all out! I got to the fenced in run up to the finish and was screaming I almost didn't make the last turn, I reached into my pocket tossed the baton to the timer and swiped my card. and collapsed in the grass. 1:12:57! 14th fastest lap in our division I was paying the price. My body immediately turned on me. My stomach was trying to push up what was in it which was nothing but maybe a bit of water. My legs were locking up and shacking. I made it back to the campsite but barely. I sat in a chair messed up! I didn't know what to do with myself I had a salt pill in my lap a banana, a nalgene, and a hotdog roll. I was trying to get this stuff down but couldn't. I then got in my tent stripped and got in my sleeping bag. for the next hr or so I had the cold sweats, shivered and pushed thru the nausea finally I was feeling good enough to get up. It was like an extremely intense hang over! Like I poisoned my own body with lactic acid or something. I got up and drank ~2 liters of gatorade, ate the salt pill (thanks Tony), ate the banana, ~1/2 a lb of pasta and 3 potatoes. I was feeling ok...... Activity
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After pushing myself to the limit I learned that Jeff had done the same and that he puked and was in bad shape :( He had hit the top of the main climb in ~5mins faster than me and blew up from there. So after talking to Joe, and his ultra-endurance-athlete knowledge he said stop racing and just ride! So going out at ~1:30 am I did just that I just ground out the climb in my granny and had fun on the descents, night brought about a few odd things. It was Cold at the start it took the whole fire road to get my muscles warmed up by I was too burnt to jump on the trainer and spin to warm up. As I climbed up it got warmer..... once at the top it was nice, the wildlife was crazy, desert rats (mostly dead from getting run over) everywhere, clear scorpions (the really poisonous ones) where scattered about the trail, and about 1,000,000 different types of big spiders.... it was good motivation to not stop or get off your bike. I felt surprisingly good, my legs were responding when I wanted a quick push out of them and my HR was way down! I made one stop to help what turned out to be the solo women's leader who had a lill crash on a climb when she couldn't get out of her pedal, she was riding a single speed 29er...... She was pretty out of it, but kept going. I then was on the decent and while I wasn't really taking the chances I was on my 2nd lap I was having fun! My lights worked great and I was passing people left and right :) I ran up most of the short steep climbs but was enjoying the rolling terrain more. I finished out quick and felt good. Activity
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