February 2007

Old Standby: 2×20’s

I got back into my training plan today with a simple 2×20 workout on the trainer. I spent more time than usual in Level 2

Mid-Season Break

Ever since my great ride in Utah last week, I’ve been off the bike; I’ve been taking a mid-season break. I call it “mid” season

Fruit Tree Pruning

We have seven fruit trees in our backyard that we planted a few years ago. Since we got them when they were fairly small they

Heather’s New Ride

These last few days I’ve spent a lot of time working on our bikes. They got thrashed during the drive from Phoenix to St George

Old Stomping Grounds

Yesterday we drove from St George to Salt Lake City and we’re staying here for a couple nights since Heather has some business to do.

Leaving Phoenix

We drove from Phoenix to St George today and it took forever! Because it’s President’s Day, there was lots of holiday traffic, plus there were

Valley of the Sun Road Race

There was a fiasco getting to the RR start. Something happened on I-10 and we were crawling at 5 mph. Luckily we were able to

Where’s Uhl?

Not in the results!? Here’s the story… So today was the 90-mile road race stage for the Valley of the Sun. There was a major

Valley of the Sun Time Trial

I rode my Cannondale with aerobars and a disk; no TT bike for me. I stood up and sprinted off the start ramp for about

Valley of the Sun Time Trial

Today was the time trial about 50 miles west of Phoenix. The weather was beautiful with blue skies and warm temps. There was a slight

Warm Phoenix

We did a lot of driving the last couple days with an overnight stop in St George, Utah and now we’re at the race hotel

Heading to Valley of the Sun

We’re about to head out for the Valley of the Sun Stage Race and we’re both looking forward to it. My taper is going well

Thumbs-Up

Today was the first real team ride of the year and it was a good one, as confirmed by Ben’s thumbs-up! We met at Reed

Friday Microburst

After a couple recovery days, I got back into it today but kept it short. I got on the trainer and did my usual 5-minute

Personal Best on Day Off?

Even though today was a day off (Yoga doesn’t count), I managed to break my 5-second mean maximal power (MMP)? How? Well, I’ve been looking

Training Block Complete

Today I finished off my 3-day training block with a hard tempo ride. The weather was similar to yesterday; warmer than normal but with some

Digging a Hole

I’m in the middle of a 3-day training block so today I went out for some Lactate Threshold (LT) work. I headed out at about

Sprints/VO2/Tempo

I realize it’s been a few days since I’ve posted but that’s because I’ve been back training indoors, so there’s not that much stuff to