Another weekend jam packed with action… Friday it was an interval workout that almost got the best of me, followed by some moto action over at Willow Springs race way, followed by sushi dinner. The motos were just practicing on the track, but it was still pretty cool to watch them fly around, diving through the corners. Big Tuna had a pretty good all you can eat deal. I didn’t keep track of how much I actually ate, but it was a fun time at a pretty cool place. They did a good job of keeping the fish coming! The only downside of the evening was waiting to get seated for about an hour.
Saturday I was up early and really looking forward to doing this group ride. I had heard from the local shop that it was a pretty fast group so I was up for the challenge and ready for a change from just doing intervals all of the time. Unfortunately this group ride was very much a “social ride� and the worst thing was that I had set my alarm to leave the house at 7:30 to join in. I’m not even exaggerating when I say that we did 15 miles. That’s right, it didn’t even last an hour… So needless to say I headed off on my own and found some cool canyons to ride tempo in for another three hours. I was pumped to see that after 60 miles of Tempo I was still able to maintain some good power at LT, as if I had just begun the ride in fact Turned out to be a great day on the bike.
Today I went back south for some more canyon riding. It was some tempo up Bouquet, three repeats on Spunky, one up San Fransiscito, and another flat TT coming back on Lake Elizabeth. The hill repeats are so worth it here because at the top you’ve got switch-backing descents to rally down at 40+ mph.
Only eleven days until the Otter takes off. Wow. There will be some serious horsepower at this event, so it will be good to see how things shake out over the four days of racing. Thanks for tuning in. -TJ
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