Training Log Archive: veinbuster

52.8% water, 60.3kg muscle

Planning to ride Mulock, north on Warden, east on Mt Albert, south on 48, west on Vivian, south on Kennedy, west on Aurora, north on Warden, west on St Johns...remainder left open to hit 120-150 minutes.

Tour de Pierre stage 2a

Last day to ride Vivian before construction starts on one of my favourite road routes. I did the planned route and added an extra Vivian, Kennedy, St. John's loop to try and get close to have of today's Tour time.

I saw for riders in the first 10km and then nobody else until 30km. Legs felt pretty good starting out today and I happened to catch a satisfying 9:17 interval on a segment with only 10m net downhill. From there turned to the longest single climb in the area at a bit over 3 km - not very steep though, just a lazy climb up about 2/3 of the Morraine.

I went south on Kennedy rather than my usual north which meant I had to climb the Wall of Doom - the most visually intimidating climb. Looping north on Warden, I eased up to check my stats to plan a route home within my time target and got passed by a strong female rider. A bit of a downhill had my mass catch her, but I didn't pass because I was pretty sure I would just be in her way on the climb just ahead. Turns out I was climbing better today so had the edge both up and down, while she was quicker on flat. I was a bit surprised t find I wasn't the worst climber amongst real cyclists.

peletons started showing up at about 50km. By the last ascent of the Morraine I was thinking I would be ok with a red light.

Nutrition: 1/3 tailwind, 1/2 bonk breaker

Tour de Pierre stage 2b

Target for the day was 4:21. Mrs. wanted a bit of a ride so she headed out on the path with me. She tried sleeves and light compression tights to avoid the sun. She is going to need lighter sleeves. The 30C started to drag her down after about an hour, so I looped her back and finished up. It had been an easy ride so I tackled Jelly in the big chain ring and tore up at 90+ rpm while the hill was clear.

Nutrition: 1/2 eload was it other than sausage, eggs, toast and a cookie between sessions.

Tomorrow could be demanding with a 224km tour stage. I might be wise to make it a recumbent day.

C • Sugoi Cooling Sleeves 3

Weight a bit high because I ate and drank everything yesterday.
Didn't save other measures because I already had compression on and they cause widely false readings, including over 27% body fat.

Tour de Pierre Stage 1a

It seemed appropriate to start the tour on the race bike (the bike, not the rider). I took a lap around the Oak Ridge Morraine: Vivian, hwy 48, Stouffville, Kennedy, St. John's, Yonge. I didn't see another rider until 25km and they started popping up in earnest at about 35km. The views on this route are very nice, especially from the crests of the Morraine.

Flight gave chase and spotted me about 10 minutes too much head start. I saw she was out as soon as I opened the door so retraced the route and met her about 4km back - we then took a short cut home.

Nutrition: 1/3 eload, 1/2 bonk breaker.

Tour de Pierre stage 1b

Exiting the Union

I opted for the Greenspeed along the river, biased to the north end. There were quite a few families out on the trail, which was nice to see. It was all very civilized. At the very north end (Green Lane) an old guy admired my trike. When I came around for a second loop, he flagged me down to tell me one of my flags had come off. He told me it was in the grass on the left side. I thanked him and went slow enough to watch carefully along the side of the trail, not quite sure if I should look to his left or mine, so I biased to his. I took a glance at the flag pole and notice the second slot from the top was empty - then had a little laugh because that might have been England.

At the turn around I took a closer look at the pole to make sure I knew what colours to watch for and now the top two flags were gone - I had lost Canada. So back again, slow enough to monitor both side of the trail for a flash of red and white. Then I met two boys about 10, breathing hard. They grabbed their brakes and one of them handed me a fist full of flag - US. They had seen it fly off behind me and chased it down, then road as hard as they could to try and catch me. Awesome. I thanked them and asked if they had happened to see a Canadian one. Nope. They caught their breathe and we carried on in opposite directions.

I did another slowish loop of that section but concluded that one of the many people on the trail opted to give a nice flag a more caring home.

Nice ride and the modest pace left me feeling pretty good after burning 2000 calories. Came in one minute over the Tour stage win today.

Nutrition: just the bacon, eggs, toast, cookie and orange juice between segments.

Day 2 soloflex.
Started thinking about how to integrate by soloflex and free weight work out, but somewhat space constrained. The Hoist bench I brought home with the free weights is a much better bench.

They installed cameras in all the stairwells since the last time I did this. I found it a bit weird.