Training Log Archive: arg

Commute to work - finally, it's getting warmer out and I can start exposing my Irish heritaged white legs to the sun.

Cadboro Bay - an on shore wind with lots of swell once past the southwest point - played around in the swell, dumped once then went for a nice down wind run.

From work and meandering about

Tempo paddle from Caddie Bay to Cattle Point, cool down around the moored Pacific Swift (kids were partying on board), then back.

Caleb Pike Crit: 15 laps at 2.56km (distance and time racing is approximate - I didn't stop my 'puter after the finish line and went for a cool down). Hard race - a couple of hills to deal with too. I have not had much opportunity to be on the bike over the last week or so and it showed. We had a big group on this sunny, warm night and it made for some interesting attacks throughout the race. I wanted to open up a gap on the main bunch but no one wanted to team up. I pulled the pack hard 4-5 times and signaled for a change, but no one would bite. I'd pull to the right and stop pedaling and the pack would follow me and I do the same to the left; I watched my speed bleed from 38 to 28 and it was still dropping - I heard a rider in mid pack yelling to pick up the tempo but I just let it bleed out and then there was a jump on my right, so I tagged along to draft and get my hr down.

I drifted around mid pack but would get caught in the inside and would get anxious if here was an attack and I was trapped, so I opted to wheel suck figuring I'd pulled enuff. The last three laps saw the pace quicken and the second to last lap was fast. Coming off the turn at bottom of the hill, on lap 13, I was on the outside and a rider on my inside and about a wheel back clipped his pedal and went down - I was lucky he didn't take me out.

On the last lap, I positioned behind a pair from the triple shot racing team and sprinted out with them. A bunch tagged on and we broke out -- there is a slight uphill on this for about a km, then a down hill to a turn and this is where the race would really start, as it's down hill then an up hill sprint to the finish line. It was clear the lead rider was going to lead out his buddy drafting him so i tucked in and when we hit the uphill area to sprint to the finish line, I was able to sling shot out - there were better sprinters than me on my tail and I managed to grab 4th. A rider went down behind me on the sprint up hill too.

The uphill portions of the race is where lots of bumping and hollering was happening - we were racing in a single lane on the road and as riders were getting out of the saddle and weaving about, lots of peeps were being forced off their line.

C • great read! 5

24 minute warm up and 15 minute cool down.