Archive for January, 2007

Santa Barbara Training Camp

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

 
The rest of the photos from day one are here.
 
Man was it great…
 
I raised my own bar too:
 

 

 
Day1
 
We rode in sunshine around the polo fields, up foothill and then the Gibraltar.  This mother just kept on coming.  Not the hardest climb I have ever done, but MAN, when does it end?  The bad [...]

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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

Free Sager   

 
 
thanks for the bands and getting them to me before Cali – I will share my thought on USAC soon…
 
-G

Ugh….

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Illness isn’t good for training… and illness in the family is about the same as having it yourself…
 
Our littlest has it worse than I would wish it on Evil.
 
Two and a half days off for me – changing diapers ever 15minutes.
 
I tried to ride yesterday but in the afternoon I drop a ~20lb computer on my [...]

Going back to Cali…

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Yeah, that is loaded into the shuffle… as well as most of the Cali songs I can find in the 16k on my media server….
 
Here is the forecast in SLC:

 
and in SB:

 
You decide.
 
Anyway, here is my PMC from today:
 

 
and here is where I will be after next weekend:
 

 
looks like fun [...]

Why I didn’t race last year

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

or, at least not very much and not very well…
 1.1.2006-12.31.2006
TSS: 13855 IF: .81 hrs: 199 kj: 118235 Pave: 169 MaxCTL: 85 MaxATL: 104.6 minTSB: -52.4 but I wasn’t very diligent this year and raced ~6d
 
-G

Since the last…

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

two times I rode outside with Kevin didn’t go so well because my 12 year old NR setup was dying a painful death.  NR generally sucks in that they weren’t willing to help with the old system and weren’t really that helpful in upgrading to a new system either.
 
You would think that someone that was [...]

Now this makes indoor riding…

Monday, January 15th, 2007

(yup, still on that horse – 21 days and no outside riding) .. bearable.
 
I got it hung last night and for the first time in a long time on the CT, didn’t want a DVD/cycling video/music
 

 
thanks again to my lovely wife for getting this for me for xmas…
 
thing of beauty…
 
-g

More detail on "training camp" in SB

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

I am so excited about this one…
 
It quote Jason:
 

In summary: Day 1 – 14K ft gain @ 66mi, (Gibraltar Rd., Andy Hampsten’s favorite US road climb) Day 2 – 17K ft gain @ 94mi, ( Hwy 101 & Figueroa Mtn, Discovery’s “hardest valley ride”) Day 3 – 15K ft gain @ 47mi, (The TjK special. [...]

Here I come…

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

With Valley coming up, I wish I were going but we have a conflict with Lori’s work.  So I am parlaying that trip into the training “camp” weekend at the Osbornes…
 
I haven’t seen anything this nice in a while:

 
man, I am getting excited about this.
 
-g

new blogger migration…

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

hope this works…
 
-g