Trainig rides

Well, back to the grind after a week of off & on riding. I didn't ride as much as I wanted this past week because of my work schedule, but today we had an excellantly tough group ride. 6 riders started a strong group ride at nearly top speed and pretty much didn't let up until we had a malfunction at nearly 30 miles in. The weather/temperature was pretty nice today, so that made for an all-aroundguiaeghd better ride. Once regrouping we decided to cruise in the last 5 miles or so. After the early pace that was set, no one was in a hurry to push the pace any harder.
Tomorrow, we'll be working on our Time Trialing. We have a TT coming up early Sept. Our course is 11 miles, out & back, so we'll we'll be working on maintaining top end speed. We'll probably warm up, then do a couple of intervals, long & short and then head out on an individual TT. This year we should be able to make a strong team if we try, otherwise, we will have some excellant riders doing individual races.

Ride On!
-Super Dave

Two solid weeks . .

. . . of riding adding up to over 400 miles while at Ft Bragg. Not too bad if you ask me. Some solid rides getting ready for the TdG. I wish that I had time while I am back home to get some of these rides in.

Anyway, upcoming for me in the next month are TdG(23 Aug), CFC Hot100(30 Aug), DEC Fall Century(1 Sep), DEC Time Trial(7 Sep), BikeMS(13-14 Sep) and probably the Cherry Pt Duathlon (Relay)(20 Sep). That's 5 races/rides in 21 days and probably a sixth a week later.

We rode a mock TT last weekend to see how good we felt on the DEC course. I easily rolled to a 28:21 for 11M. That also wasn't too bad. I caught my minute man by the half way and then his minute man with about 1/2 mile to go. I'm not sure how the firt two riders did, but I doubt that they were more than 3 minutes ahead of me. All that without aerobars and on a carbon bike. I might end up going for my buddies TT bike if I could cut another minute off my time.

More later.
Ride On!
-Super Dave