March 25, 2010 

1 Year Later

Last Nights workout, I did pretty much exactly the same workout a year ago when I was living in Boulder. It was a rest week as it is this time around and I was prepping for my first Off Road race of the season: Oauchita Challenge in Arkansas. It was also my last week in Boulder, so it’s been pretty much almost a year since I made my way back home to New York!

I can’t really complain. I quite enjoy it back here. Plus the road riding is just as good if not better!

Onto the workout; some 5 x 1 minute intervals, not all that hard, but not all that easy. But, big changes! 40 watts over last years workout, ya ya altitude counts (but when I came back I saw about 5-7% improvement). But a few other things weighing in, I’m nearly 5kg lighter than last year and my CTL is -35 from compared to where it was then! That’s a fairly stout improvement!

Enough of the geek speak, time for the pretty pictures…..

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This is acutally from a few weeks back, when we had snow from an early morning ride but forgot I had it on my camera
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Rolling along the Cayuga Lakefront
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It’s great to ride along this road, I wish this little side road went on forever..

I’ve still got lots of work to do before racing really kicks in, but so far pretty happy with how things are progressing. This weekend is the last weekend of Giros’, then a big weekend of training and time for both my road and mountain bike season to kick off!! Battenkill and then Dryer Rd Mountain bike race. It’s gonna be a busy month in April!!

5 Responses to “1 Year Later”

  1. Carney March 25, 2010 at 3:08 pm #

    Dang – lighter AND stronger!! Get some!

  2. Larry March 25, 2010 at 4:34 pm #

    toot…toot

  3. terry March 29, 2010 at 12:58 pm #

    cool, coming this way for Battenkill! see ya there, drop a line if in need of a place to crash to help with the travels, plenty of room…
    terry

  4. sprocketjockey March 29, 2010 at 7:07 pm #

    Hey Terry, thanks for the invite, but got a hotel all set up with the team. Looking forward to the kick off to the race season for sure!

  5. terry March 30, 2010 at 12:31 am #

    cool, see ya at the “Kill”…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b2IvgpgNk8
    (enjoy)

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