Week four of the 22 week series was held tonight. Much like last week the wind was pretty consistent from the south which hurt the front half and helped the last half a little. I was 3 seconds faster with a 22:25 or 27.44 mph average. Looking back at the last 16 years of times […]
Spent about 7:15 on the bike yesterday with a ride from Cincinnati to the Augusta Ferry across the ohio River to Augusta KY. From there it was on to Maysville, Ky, across the Simon Kenton Bridge to Aberdeen, Oh and back to Ripley, Oh. From there it was back to Cincinnati. That was about 115
After yesterdays off day I had just 4×4 hill accelerations today. I used Heekin Avenue near our house for these. It has a steady 10% with a section at 14% and then goes to 5-7% to the top. The idea was to go 3 minutes at time trial power and then finish the last minute
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Last night was the third Cleves Time Trial. As part of my warmup I did a couple of 12 minute efforts with 6 minutes at 340 and 6 at 350. I took my road bike with the PowerTap for these. The time trial wasn;t as fast as the last two weeks with my time being
After the 100 mile Smoky Mountain Century on Thursday we did a 10 mile hike to Ramsey Cascade on Friday followed by a great drive through Cades Cove where we saw 5 bears. We had planned to ride on Saturday before we left but it was raining when we got up so we headed back
Left the chalet today with the idea of doing 70-75. We headed to Cades Cove which roundtrip would put us in that range. When we got back to Sugarlands my brother headed home but I went up as far as Alum Cave, back down to Sugarlands and back out towards Elkmont and then home for
On week two of the 22 week series I posted a 22:12 or 27.7 mph. Off to one of my best starts ever in the last 17 years. The ramped up winter intervals (think back to the multiple weeks of 20 x 3 steady states two or three times per week, the 2×60 tempo’s and
Today was the SWOSO held in Mt. Airy Forest.Not a huge turnout but I have to say that the course was tough. It was shaped like a Y. For the one mile we went to the fork and back with a roundabout at the turn. I ran that in about 2:10 or about 27.7 mph.
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Rode a 21:47 or just under 27.5 mph tonight in Dayton. Pretty decent for this time of the year but well off my best of 21:06 from two years ago. Good enough for 1st place out of the 112 riders and in the 50-54 mens Senior Olympic Dayton/Miami Valley race.