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Had planned on spending the weekend hiking in Tennessee but due to a friends illness we canceled. Did just an hour of endurance today where I started at 150 watts and added 10 every 5 minutes until I was at 280 then backed it down to 220 for 15 minutes.  Will likely ride easy tomorrow […]

Used Heekin Avenue from Eastern to the playground at Ault Park. I allowed the cadence to fall where it may and went for power: 371/73, 372/77, 372/78, 363/78, 366/76, 365/77. When I tried keep cadence at 90 last week power was closer to 350. The lower half of the hill is 10-14% so cadence is

In a little over a week, 2015 will be history.  This is a great time to assess what went well and what didn’t in the past year and how you plan on reaching your goals for 2016. Here are some questions to ask yourself: Did you find that you were in good position for the

Kind of warm out, mid 50’s, with colder air coming later in the week so I went to the Ault Park crit course and did 10×1, power/cadence: 504/97, 502/100, 499/101, 489/99, 479/90, 493/97, 485/98, 478/103, 483/104 and 500/103. Felt good about the cadence and power not too bad consider yesterdays time trial. Will rest tomorrow.

Rode a 14:40, just 6 seconds off my PR. Held 373 watts, close to 100 rpm avg and 169 avg HR or 93% of max. Hit 180 over the last minute, 99% of max. Can’t say that feels good at all. Was fortunate to have the best time in my age bracket and overall also.

Even though its 60 degrees on a Saturday in December, I’m sticking to the plan of a recovery day after yesterdays steady state efforts and 50 miles. Will use the time to get some other things done around the house and garden.

Just noticed that I passed 280,000 lifetime miles last week….should hit 300,000 in early 2017.

Traditional aerobic base training needs to go the way of the dodo. Long, moderate intensity rides are fun and good to incorporate into training, but even if you’re a pro it is a fool’s errand to devote the winter to low-intensity training in the hopes of building a stronger aerobic base. For the rest of

These are the last efforts before the indoor tt on Sunday. Felt very good on these: 357, 361 and 369. I’m going to ride my Cervelo P2 tt bike at the indoor tt on Sunday. makes more sense to use that than a road bike.

Interesting article sent to me by a client. I’ve always considered one legged drills to be a waste of time and thinking of pedaling in circles the same. I think of the pedal stroke as a down motion. I do relax a little at the bottom. Its not a dramatic pull up at all, more