Biscotti Madness

Yes, I know I'm doing this whole "week" thing backwards:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/8105133

Just over 4 hours this morning, 63+ miles and 5000 vertical. Pretty mundane average at 15.8. Felt a little sluggish at times, but overall pretty good. I'm very happy with how the ride went considering the length combined with the heat. Looking forward to a 6-ish hour ride when it's hot to see if I can maintain as the temps go up.

Only brought 2 bottles and stopped at a park for water once and a Quick Check for water and a Snickers later in the ride. The Snickers bar worked amazingly well for me. As the temps rise, I fine that Accelerade doesn't do such a good job and I seem to prefer alternating bottles of water (cold water!) in between. Clif bars still taste fine.

Went up Jake's N. Four Bridges today which is a steep bastard. Did it in the middle ring and granny gear but I did have to stand. Maybe 2/3 the way up that thing does really start to pound on you. I need to explore routes up in that direction as west is getting a little boring. I'm always extremely limited riding rush hour during the week so the same roads end up in the routine.

Tomorrow sucks, I have to go into the office.
 
WWPD? Sure as hell not ride a bike for a living. Dude's not thrilled as it is.
 
huh. we rode the same roads today. at least a few of them. i only did 34 miles though.

there are a couple "alternate" routes over there. if kept going on naughtright and made a left on fairview (or just kept going UP, UP, UP naughtright) you'd open up a whole new world on top of schooley's mountain.
 
bonefishjake said:
huh. we rode the same roads today. at least a few of them. i only did 34 miles though.

there are a couple "alternate" routes over there. if kept going on naughtright and made a left on fairview (or just kept going UP, UP, UP naughtright) you'd open up a whole new world on top of schooley's mountain.
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I need to open up that area, for sure. Four Bridges isn't enjoyable enough for me to do every time I'm out there. I also need to not ride on 24 from Chester.

Which one is naughtright?
 
i ride that little stretch of 24 there all the time. it's about the least of 24's evils.

BUT, to avoid it completely and get where you want to be anyway, on the route you travelled today:

right onto main street (in Chester)
first left onto Hillside
you'll take Hillside all the way down (no turns) to the light.
straight across 206 to S. four bridges road to end.
left onto Bartley
right onto N. four bridges

no more 24.

as for naughtright, from 24 you made a right onto coleman. at the bottom of coleman you hit a light and went right. if you went straight, that's naughtright and one hell of a climb. riding down reminds me of 'free fall' at great adventure.

edit: four bridges isn't enjoyable? really? no kidding.
 
Sweet, good to know. I'll have to check out some of that stuff. I know what you mean now, go through Chester and cross 206 at the Quick Check. I bet they sell Snickers bars.
 
I'm kinda tired. I had a brutal long day yesterday, awake at 5:30 am then train-Brooklyn-meetings-train-home-work and done at 11:00 pm. Woke up at 6:00 and just sat on the couch and stared at the wall for a while. Around 7:30 I decided to ride CR:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/8120452

Saw Mare in the lot and Fred/Jim on the trails. For a Thursday that's odd.

Been cutting calories a lot this week to head off my weight creeping up and I've been kinda tired. Not sure how that bodes for this weekend but I'm not expecting a lot to be honest. I thought this was a good race for me but now I'm not feeling that great. This is the second week in a row I'm going to try and get 12 hours so that plus the calories may be adding up. But this weekend isn't a target race so whatever. There to have fun.

Pumped up the tires too much in the lot and it took 3/4 of the ride to really figure it out. Tires were all over, traction sucks, handling sucked, I sucked. But it got better when I dropped some air. I still felt mediocre. But things rolled and handled better.

Tomorrow maybe 3 hours on the road. It's supposed to be wet but warm. I may take out the CX bike and ride in the rain. Low intensity for sure. Saturday is more or less a wash as well, so I'm riding tomorrow and sleeping in Saturday. Sunday is race day, pre-registered so I'll be there rain or shine.
 
This was probably a bit stupid:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/8123935

Yesterday was so lame that I needed to push a little bit today, 58 miles in 3:05, average of 18.8. This was a solid tempo ride and by the end I was damn near cooked. We'll see how this effects my race on Sunday. But I'm in this for the long haul, and Sunday is just another event to go enjoy regardless. So whatever, I ain't the Pope.

My average dropped from 19.2 to 19.0 to 18.8 after hours 1, 2, and 3. The last 10 minutes were a slog to get home. I haven't done much of this sort of tempo work this year so the fact I was able to keep it for almost 2 hours before struggling through the last hour was promising I guess. I'll need to throw in more of these up tempo rides going forward. Jim and Fred need to start their Thursday rides at 7:00.

So 12.5 hours last week, 9 so far this week. Maybe an easy hour tomorrow then 2.5-ish Sunday with everything, for another 11-12.5 hour week. Shooting for the same next week before taking another rest week the following week.
 
Took today completely off the bike. The day turned out to be much nicer than expected but I did enough yesterday and I don't really want to hit the starting line over-tired so I skipped out. I'll warm up tomorrow enough. If my legs are heavy then so be it. Slept 8 hours last night and I never really shook it off. Been sluggish all day. Better today than tomorrow.

The traditional approach would be to take Friday off, light day Saturday, race Sunday, then off Monday. To me, that's 3 fluff days and 1 hard day. If I'm racing every other week it seems like an awful lot of fluff if you want to get stronger, which I suppose I want. So screw it. Hard Friday, off Saturday and Monday with a race in between. 2 hard days in 4 days seems more like a way to get stronger, or blow yourself up I guess.

Looking forward to seeing all the peeps, creeps, and geeks, tomorrow.
 
My plan worked. First podium ever! If it wasn't for EABODS taking first (by 4 minutes) I would have won.

Fred and Ruth with firsts. Ilya with a second and Anne also podiumed in beginner. Pros and experts still rolling. MTBNJ representing well today.

On a side note, we're like an army out there. We have team riders everywhere.
 
Holy Shite! Today makes me want to step up my game. Congrats to you and everyone else on the podiums. Can't wait to hear the recaps.
 
Awesome! Great to hear you guys doing well, all that hard work is paying off.
Looks like you got the right training formula.
 
Norm said:
My plan worked. First podium ever! If it wasn't for EABODS taking first (by 4 minutes) I would have won.

Fred and Ruth with firsts. Ilya with a second and Anne also podiumed in beginner. Pros and experts still rolling. MTBNJ representing well today.

On a side note, we're like an army out there. We have team riders everywhere.
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Thanks Norm. Fun course. Sorry I couldn't stay, the family was wet and cold by the end. Did anyone represent me up on the stand 🙂. By the way Adam I totally appreciated your cheerleading, just would like to see you in a skirt next time.
 
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