So there was no racing for me this Labor Day weekend, but I did manage to get in two high quality workouts. On Saturday Ron Kay and I headed up to the northwoods to do a reconnaissance mission of the Chequamegon 40 course. We did this at a decent clip, enough so that we were both taxed by the time we rolled into Telemark. The course is setup the same as last year, but seems to be even drier with only a few mud holes out there. It is the sand pits that could potentially cause some issues at several points along the route. It was a perfect day to be up there training and I can only hope that we have such conditions on the 16th. While we were out there I let Ron ride my Litespeed Sewanee as I got on his Trek TopFuel 110. The only way that he could describe the ride to me was that it “wasn’t fair for me to tease him like this�?. The bike does ride like a dream…
Sunday afternoon brought on some LT work along the lines of a 3×20 day. Doing this workout around Shell Lake is absolutely perfect as you get 4 or 5 minutes to recover as you ride through town before doing the loop again. The loop is a totally flat, tree covered road that perimeters the lake. How could you ask for a better LT route? The wattage was about 15 higher than ever before and my weight is about 3-5 pounds lower, so I just need to keep the engine polished for a couple more weeks without over doing it and I should have no excuses for the big race. I’m feeling and riding more fit than ever before, so it is just a matter of keeping the ball rolling now.
Post Chequamagon plans are in the air as of now. Things are mellow around here in Spooner and I’m itching to get out and on with my next adventure in life. The thought of sticking around town for another three weeks post Chequamy, only so I can do the Sheboygan race is a bit dreary. Sometime two to five weeks from now I’ll be packing up and headed to the Desert Southwest once again. This time it will be to Tucson though. I’ve been spending a lot of time learning the housing market and trying to figure out a bunch of various situations. It’s exciting to think of what life has waiting around the corner.
That’s about all for now. Congrats to Paul for taking the W in the Stage race up at Maplelag. Team RV represented! Keep it real out there, TJ
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