Frequency 650

In that order for 30 minutes each = 2 hours. Good to break up the workout, get the time in and cover all the bases. Some high cadence work on the trainer.

Warm up
40 minutes at 249 watts
cool down

Interesting that this is about the same amount of time it took to climb Neal’s on Sunday with perhaps more effort and significantly less watts (than on the real bike).

My first strength maintenance weight work this morning. I’m done with the heavy stuff. This is the one I will do once a week through the season. Got on the rollers tonight for a zone 2 spin and watched Aliens vs Preditor: Requium… below average.

Tough night. Too much to give the specifics but here is an image of the file. I warmed up for 40 minutes before the start. Started to fall apart on the 5th and 6th set. Legs still a little tired from the Sunday effort.

Went to the Jewish film festival last night and watched “Bart got a room”. An indy film someone from Leslie’s high school made. Based on parts of the writer / directors life (Brian Hecker). High school in south Florida. Going to selected theaters in April. Stared William H. Macy and Cheryl Hines. Brian was around for Q&A after the movie for some interesting insight into the making of the film. Great movie.

Front 3 with Reger, Dana, Matt W. and Shane. Panera stop for breakfast, Matt forgot his shoes. Counter clockwise from the rock pile. Good pace on the day. Good company. Post ride Moe’s stop. 2:10 on the ride time.

Shane shared his power file with us. We stayed mostly together for the ride and Joe, Shane and I are all about the same weight. Here are the Neals and Wolf climb.

P90X style, 1 hour. Not as intense as the ones we did last week but man, they just keep going.

Good legs today. Recovery week so nothing on Monday or Wednesday. Plyos tomorrow.

Warm-up
20 minutes at 255 watts
5 min recovery
20 minutes at 257 watts
cool down

Warm-up
______________
4 min @ 245 watts @ 85 cadence
1 min @ same resistance and increase to 110 cadence, zone 3
2 min recovery
(repeat 3 times)
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5 min @ +210 watts
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repeat first set
cool down

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Back up to Training Zone since is was cold and raining this morning. 15 min warm-up and 2 solid hours at 218 watts (164 avg hr) then a 10 min cool down. Wanted to see how bad it would hurt to hold zone 2 for two hours with no variation. Not that bad. This put me at 14.75 hours for the week. A little short of the goal but not bad for not a single ride outside. Recovery next week.

With Reger and Dana. 45 min on the trainer, then 1.5 hours on the rollers, then 52 min back on the trainer for 3 hours and 12 min of work. 80% of a 4 hour outside effort. Time went fairly quickly with music, bad TV and entertainment of the roller newbies trying not to hurt themselves. Stole some of Reger’s phone picks. No, I’m not about to bust my arse on the rollers, I was riding with one leg. Was also brave enough to try no hands for a little while.

Met Reger and Dana at LA Fitness for day 2 SF 3.0

25 min warm-up on the spin bike
10 min on the elliptical
40 min of plyos… 4 sets, ouch. Core needs some help.
1.25 hours on the trainer at tempo pace

Tired today, legs felt it too but still performed. (SufferFest 3.0 day 1)

Warm-up
1 set of 2 min zone2, with zone 3 efforts, 2,4,6,4,2 min – 286,275,280,278,276 watts
then 1.5 min zone 3 60-70 cadence, .5 min zone 5 90+ cadence, 2 min recovery, 4 sets
cool down

45 min recovery spin yesterday

Much more reasonable tonight.

45 min warm-up
2 x 20 minute efforts in zone 2 (228-268) variable cadence, 5 min recovery between sets
240 avg watts (170 hr),190 recovery watts, 237 avg watts (176 hr)

Hair Cut and trip to Starbucks (on Sat. before injury)

Came down on the leg a little too hard at Bouncing Bob’s on Sunday. Wouldn’t walk on it for the rest of the day or this morning. 2 doctors trips, x-rays and new green cast for 3 weeks. He’s a trooper.

A little reflection time before 2009 goes screaming too far ahead. Changed from Carmichael Training to Training Bible (on my own) which helped me outline my cycling year and organize my training. Started with Sufferfest 2.0, survived a couple of Airport long loops, started doing some regular testing on Joe’s computrainer, got a VO2 max test done, rode the Wheels O’fire in the snow (dumb but fun) and decided that yoga didn’t help me much. My first big racing season is finished. Raced with Colavita all year and have now moved over to Aaron’s. Started as a Cat 5 (though all races were 4/5 or 4 only) and moved up to a Cat 3. I had one race crash, got some rollers and a TT bike!

I trained 490 hours
Logged 6766 miles
13 Pizza Rides
16 Northlake Rides
41 trips to the gym
60 Rides on the trainer…ouch

2008 Season Highlights
Nationally Ranked 11th by USA Cycling in Cat 4 Road Racing (as of 10/2/2008)
Georgia State Road Race Champion (gold medalist)
2nd Pepper Place Alabama State Criterium Championships (silver medalist)
13 top 10 mass start finishes in 2008 Season
Ranked 23rd in Georgia Cup GC, only entered 6 of 21 races for ranking (crashed in one of them)
 
2008 Season (22 races)
1st Union City Georgia State Championship Road Race
2nd Pepper Criterium Alabama State Criterium Championship
7th South Carolina State Road Race Championship
13th LaGrange Georgia State Criterium Championship

4th Athens Twilight Greenway Races Criterium (qualified for Pro race)
4th Gainesville Georgia Cup Criterium
6th Gainesville Georgia Cup Road Race
6th Atlanta Crit Series (Sunday)
6th Atlanta Crit Series (Friday)
9th Dog Days of Summer – Cherokee County Road Race

Tour of Atlanta Stage Race Overall Stage Race Finish – 11th
Stage 1 – 13th Time Trial
Stage 2 – Sprints, qualified for final (stupid pedal)
Stage 3 – 6th Circuit race
Stage 4 – 5th Team Time Trial
Stage 5 – 7th Road Race
Stage 6 – 6th Criterium
Stage 7 – 9th Criterium

It was a good year. Thanks to my riding friends for the fun and serious hurting you put on me to make me a better rider but mostly THANK YOU Leslie for putting up with all my s*^t to do this. I love you!

65.8 miles. First ride in the new Aaron’s Kit. Big show of force with lots of team riders out today. 43 degrees for most of the ride. Met Reger, Dana and Pissari at Outback and rode to the start. Good legs today but did try and keep out of the red zone. Used Reger up pulling for one of the county line sprints (that no one cares about or tried for) and promptly shot him out the back of the group. Yes, it’s my fault he got dropped, as the long climbs came up I went ahead and stayed at the front to the top of them. I’m taking credit because its never happened before and will probably never happen again. Also recall telling Reger on the WBL that my legs weren’t great but would be fine as long as the tempo wasn’t too fast. Not 1 minute later he was on the front pulling at 25 mph for an hour. Irony… or payback. No store stop today but I made sure I could get to food so no bonk. Wanted to sprint for the last sprint line but followed Chad way early and couldn’t get to the line. Good day on the bike. The training is paying off. Hoping it will continue as the race season gets under way.

Ordered my 2009 racing license.

1 hour weights. Probably my last heavy weight workout and back to maintenance (my version of it anyway). Plyo time!

2 hour ride to Stone MTN. Sunny and 50+ degrees. I haven’t ridden outside, not in a group ride, much at all since the time change. Legs are tired but strong. Felt like I was riding in sand.