Saturday I had the early shift at work, back to being the golf course manager. Not really much to do on weekends at this point in the season, but enough work to keep 6 guys busy for 4hrs. Mostly blowing and mulching leaves, its harvest time.
J came into work with me. He had soccer down in Hammonton at 1:00 and there ain't no way I'm driving home 40 miles north after work to turn around and drive 100 miles south. We left work by 10:00 and took a leisurely drive down 537 to 206 south. We stopped off at a dinner and had two fatboy specials, basically that's all they serve down in those parts.
Ended up losing the first game and tying the second, got home at 6:45pm... meh
Sunday Same early shift deal at work but this time I brought the road bike. As I was watching J's soccer game yesterday I came up with the plan to do a century tomorrow. It was the end of my rest week and had wanted to get in 3 century rides before CP. So today was the day. Did the work thing then got on the road by 9:30. The first 10 minutes is always tough mentally knowing your doing 100 miles but once you settle into a pace the miles tic away. It was easy to get into a rhythm with a tail wind, I was riding a tempo pace fairly easy.
At the start of Cranbury Neck Rd. heading towards Princeton I spotted Ilya's white suburban, kinda hard to miss with the vin diesel on the back. His wife Inna was driving him to his cx race, where she would take photos of him and be his pit crew. Damn, love knows no boundaries... yeah I'm jealous.
For me the century gets fun after Princeton heading towards sourlands. These are roads I only hit when doing the 100 miler, so they are not as familiar and that is more exciting. I climb the back of Zion rd then make my way down the other side of the mountain. Once I hit Amwell rd I'm on the back stretch. Amwell rd has a nice tail wind but damn thats a long road to before I get Canal road, it seems to go on forever.
From Canal rd on I suffer with the head winds, I was really getting beat up by the wind. Its not like an acute blow but more like a steady attack that just drains you as the time goes on. After 80 miles I had to exhale like a tennis player on his serve in order to stay pumped and focused. I wanted to finish strong and this wind was really testing my willpower.
With a mile to go I hit the garmin to see what my avg speed was, 18.8. I wanted it to be faster but with the winds I was working very hard. My avg. moving speed was 18.9, I'm still not sure what this means. I definitely worked harder on this one with my avg. HR at 146 compared to 142 when I did this ride back in August.
Needless to say I was wiped out after this ride. 3hrs rides are easy compared to 5.5 hr rides at tempo. The rest of the week is going to be easy for me as I get ready for CP. I will be ready Saturday, I just hope my bike is.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/128571494#
J came into work with me. He had soccer down in Hammonton at 1:00 and there ain't no way I'm driving home 40 miles north after work to turn around and drive 100 miles south. We left work by 10:00 and took a leisurely drive down 537 to 206 south. We stopped off at a dinner and had two fatboy specials, basically that's all they serve down in those parts.
Ended up losing the first game and tying the second, got home at 6:45pm... meh
Sunday Same early shift deal at work but this time I brought the road bike. As I was watching J's soccer game yesterday I came up with the plan to do a century tomorrow. It was the end of my rest week and had wanted to get in 3 century rides before CP. So today was the day. Did the work thing then got on the road by 9:30. The first 10 minutes is always tough mentally knowing your doing 100 miles but once you settle into a pace the miles tic away. It was easy to get into a rhythm with a tail wind, I was riding a tempo pace fairly easy.
At the start of Cranbury Neck Rd. heading towards Princeton I spotted Ilya's white suburban, kinda hard to miss with the vin diesel on the back. His wife Inna was driving him to his cx race, where she would take photos of him and be his pit crew. Damn, love knows no boundaries... yeah I'm jealous.
For me the century gets fun after Princeton heading towards sourlands. These are roads I only hit when doing the 100 miler, so they are not as familiar and that is more exciting. I climb the back of Zion rd then make my way down the other side of the mountain. Once I hit Amwell rd I'm on the back stretch. Amwell rd has a nice tail wind but damn thats a long road to before I get Canal road, it seems to go on forever.
From Canal rd on I suffer with the head winds, I was really getting beat up by the wind. Its not like an acute blow but more like a steady attack that just drains you as the time goes on. After 80 miles I had to exhale like a tennis player on his serve in order to stay pumped and focused. I wanted to finish strong and this wind was really testing my willpower.
With a mile to go I hit the garmin to see what my avg speed was, 18.8. I wanted it to be faster but with the winds I was working very hard. My avg. moving speed was 18.9, I'm still not sure what this means. I definitely worked harder on this one with my avg. HR at 146 compared to 142 when I did this ride back in August.
Needless to say I was wiped out after this ride. 3hrs rides are easy compared to 5.5 hr rides at tempo. The rest of the week is going to be easy for me as I get ready for CP. I will be ready Saturday, I just hope my bike is.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/128571494#
