Training Log Archive: gam

MTB at dryer while Jess ran.

Tried to ride Tryon. Some trails are dry and rideable, but most were a slick mess. Probably not going to go back until we've had a solid week of hot dry weather.

Dryer with Jess. Its stupid hot.

road ride with 2 flats and a call to bauserman for a ride home. sealant in my rear tire ran dry and I only brought one co2. nice weather though

Road biking in the rain.

easy cx around gvp and leheigh trails

Dryer. Legs are dead.

Last Spring Farmall Challange race. 1st place. woot

I did my first 10k. I wanted to beat 50 minutes, and I did it with 3 seconds to spare. Running is hard.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/87320703

C • yes, it is. 2

Easy spin around Dryer on cross bikes

Dryer is in great shape

Single speed ride at Dryer. trails are dry

bleh. too much rain

Farmall Day 2

It was super wet and I crashed on the first lap. Mud on the steep down hill and my front wheel came out from under me. I was leading when i crashed, was in 4th by the time I got up and got the chain back on my bike. I did another lap then pulled out.

DNFs suck but my ankle is sore. I think just scrapes and bruises.

Yikes. Jess and I did the ramble around prattsburgh, a 30 mile dirt road race in the finger lakes. It has been raining since Friday, so the roads were less like roads and more like giant puddles of mud.

The race started with a neutral lead out around the village of Prattsburgh, and then the race started with a hill climb followed by a sharp turn down a carriage road. I was mid pack going into the carriage road and the field got really strung out. By the time we were back on pavement, the lead group had gapped my pack by a fairly wide margin, and I was at the back of a group of about a dozen guys in the second wave. I worked my way to the front of the chase pack and then took a wrong turn just before the first long climb and was right back in the back of the group. Our pack splintered about halfway up the climb when the crankskins guy on the fatbike started pushing the pace a little. I stayed right with him, because the only thing in my head was, "Don't dropped by a guy riding a Pugsley". By the end of the hill we picked off a few stragglers who fell off the leader's pace and had a mini group of the ommegang guy, the park ave guy, the fatbike and me. Once we hit a road section we dropped fatbike, and the three of us rode together for a while. Park ave was descending on some slick mountain roads like a crazy person, so by the bottom of a hill he would have a gap on ommegang and me, but we were able to keep him in sight and we kept catching him on the uphill sections.

About halfway through the race, I came really close to crashing out. On a super rocky dirt section, I was cruising along at a pretty good clip on the right side of the road and I shot some mud in my eye. Temporarily partially blinded, I slammed into a giant rock on the road that almost knocked my hands off the bars and shot the front of my bike into the air. When my front tire landed back on the ground it was pointed left, so i shot across the road and, I'm not totally sure how, ended up riding in the rut on the left side of the road. After that I slowed down a bit and the park ave guy put a gap on me and I didn't see him again until after the finish. Ommegang was also being conservative on the downhill sections, so he and I rode together until he flatted with around 4 miles to go. The last few miles were great. The last offroad section was a mix of ankle deep mud and bottom bracket deep river.

My rear derailleur wasn't dealing with the adverse conditions at all. After a couple miles it was sticking a little, about halfway through the race the 3 smallest cogs in the rear were off-limits. Around mile 20 my easiest gear was inaccessible. By the time the ommegang rider flatted i only had three cogs to choose from, and pretty soon after that, my bike was a 2 speed - my rear derailleur was stuck in my 23t cog, and I could shift little ring or big ring. Little ring was fine for dirt sections, but I was spinning out my big ring on the roads. There's about a pound of sand in my derailleur cable housing right now.

I finished in 2:13, good for 11th place overall. Jess came in about 10 min later - 1st woman, 20th overall.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/86233493

Dryer ride. Got in 45 min before the lightning and rain

Rest Day - went to the driving range and hit golf balls with Max

Rode to powder mills with hoffman. He had fun dropping me on the hills

I raced the Farmall Hill Challenge in the Cat 2 field. Jess did the expert women race. Both are 5 laps so Jess and I started in the same bunch. We had very different strategies at the start line. I chased the guy from RIT who went off like a madman to start in second place, and Jess settled in to the back of the pack. I passed the RIT guy on the first lap and he held on my wheel for about a lap before dropping off. I had a strong second and third lap, but my pace started to drop a little bit on the fourth. Paul, with his roadie watts on the grass flat sections, passed me to take first place, and on the last lap the ommegang rider who had been creeping closer and closer to my back wheel for the whole race passed me on the second to last hill. So I finished in 3rd place. Jess spent the whole race passing the guys who started in front of her (lapping more than a few) and finished less than a minute behind me in fourth (1st woman).

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/84922371

C • Nice! 3

Warm up and cool down at farmall

Quick cross ride.

Rode OCP with Jess. Trails were in ok shape. there was some bad mud by the red trail, but the rest of the park was rideable.

Rode all of the trails at Dryer with Jess.

Quick Dryer ride

Cyclocross ride down the lehiegh trail, around gvp, a couple loops of the cemetery and highland park.

Ran the wetlands trails with Pat and Jess

Too wet to do anything fun outside, so i rode the trainer. Blerg.

Long cross ride to get ready for Prattsburgh. Started from home and did some cemetery loops after the half marathon had cleared out. Then up through highland park and over pinnacle hill to cobbs. Up the face of cobbs and down the switchbacks out to the road. I went out highland to ellison park and cut through (half walking because it was too muddy) to the browncraft trail in tryon up to the northwest passage and into bay park west. I did most of the bay park trails before i ran out of water and bonked and then i came home on the roads.