Training Log Archive: kgeisen

Part 1 of my Fat Cyclist 100 Miles of Nowhere attempt. Really wanted to do this on singletrack. More fun, plus the best thing about loop courses is getting more comfortable and riding the course better.

26* at start (7:30 instead of my planned 6 because of a major motivation deficit to get out of bed in our unheated house). Not a scary temp at all, but with Thursday's high being 82 I don't have my cold weather dressing down yet for the year. Bottom: Tights over shorts, 2 pr socks, regular bike shoes. Legs were fine, feet were frozen. Too bad I don't have wool socks or winter cycling boots. Oh wait...I do. Top: base layer, s/s jersey, fleece jacket, wind jacket. Way too much. Super sweaty by the end of my trail 8 laps.

I was super excited about doing this, and as soon as I started pedaling it was no fun at all. I really wanted to quit and go home and go to bed. By the end of the first 5 laps I was feeling better about things. Focused on riding pretty easy and smooth rather than fast because this loop has lots of turns -- a definite area in which I need improvement. Of course, not going for a PR every time meant that my Garmin kept reminding me how far back my time was.

Accidentally stopped/saved the first 7 laps when trying to turn off the strava segment feature before all the beeps drove me insane.

Remaining laps to fill out the 33 miles I had planned here. Did 5 laps CCW, 5 laps CW, repeat. This is a really fun trail, and my riding of it did get much better. Faster around curves and downhill.

After lunch/thaw my frozen feet break, switched over to trail 3. Switched base layer and jersey to dry ones, left off the fleece and topped with the jacket. Much better. Of course, it was 15* warmer out, too.

Two-mile laps instead of 1.1; that was a nice change. Failing motivation. Got through 8 laps to make it to 50 for the day and quit.

Takeaway: just because it's easy trail doesn't make it easy to keep riding it over and over, especially when no one else is locked into your stupidity. Def would have been more fun with a group all with the same goal. Mickey was there for the majority of the day, and having company was way nicer, but not the same as having other people who were all in the same boat together.

C • Determination! 4

Momentum hooky day on what's probably the last nice day of the year. Started at Hazel Creek and rode clockwise. After a weekend of feeling pretty awesome on the bike I guess I was due to feel not-amazing. Still a gorgeous day outside and I managed to ride a couple things that I've walked every time I've ridden Berryman, so that made me happy. Ran into Jeff and David afterwards. :)

I think maybe I'm now feeling my 4 days in a week on the bike, even if only one of them was a longer, strenuous ride. Drained.