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RobW

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Mohican Ss, wilderness, shen, couple h2h and mass races. Iron furnace. Hillier than though. Some cx. Who knows I just like to race
when @Dave Taylor lines up

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Dave Taylor

Rex kwan Do
Ahhh!!! I should have taken a rest week last week. Oh well, as of today I am taking it easy for 5 or so days. I've been doing a bunch of zone 2 running and riding. Probably up around 25 hours in the last two weeks. That's a lot for daddy homebody. I think an hour at skyzone on saturday after allaire was the sign. Man, I am sore two days later.

In other news, home life is good, minus a lack of sleep but hey, I chose to have three kids right? If you're gonna train you're gonna daddy too! Speaky of daddy, my father sold his NJ home and moved to his northeastern Pa home. Well he has been through a lot in the last 8 years. Mini strokes, prostate cancer, not curable lung cancer and today he went to the Binghamton ER as he has had some urinary pain, blood, problems etc. Upon first diagnosis he has a UTI and his cancer is back in the prostate, bladder and stomach. I'll be heading up there for a few days to help out. It's tough seeing him go through this as he is more stubborn than I and now when it's too late he's admitted he should have followed through with the chemo after prostate surgery. Ah, life.

Well, my life will be crazy busy this year but I am hoping to be peaked for the Mohican 100 in the beginning of June. I'm going to be using the racing as training. Short track, HOH, a few H2Hs and maybe Iron Furnace before the big one. I'll probably add intervals in around the last week of April. After Mohican we just wing it! The fun part of racing.

Today was the last day of my big training block. I did a late night 30 on the geared mtb last night, another 30+ on ss with @Riggedfmx today and then a 7 mile run. Hoping to feel much better after a week off. Today was awonky one.
 

Dave Taylor

Rex kwan Do
Ahhh!!! I should have taken a rest week last week. Oh well, as of today I am taking it easy for 5 or so days. I've been doing a bunch of zone 2 running and riding. Probably up around 25 hours in the last two weeks. That's a lot for daddy homebody. I think an hour at skyzone on saturday after allaire was the sign. Man, I am sore two days later.

In other news, home life is good, minus a lack of sleep but hey, I chose to have three kids right? If you're gonna train you're gonna daddy too! Speaky of daddy, my father sold his NJ home and moved to his northeastern Pa home. Well he has been through a lot in the last 8 years. Mini strokes, prostate cancer, not curable lung cancer and today he went to the Binghamton ER as he has had some urinary pain, blood, problems etc. Upon first diagnosis he has a UTI and his cancer is back in the prostate, bladder and stomach. I'll be heading up there for a few days to help out. It's tough seeing him go through this as he is more stubborn than I and now when it's too late he's admitted he should have followed through with the chemo after prostate surgery. Ah, life.

Well, my life will be crazy busy this year but I am hoping to be peaked for the Mohican 100 in the beginning of June. I'm going to be using the racing as training. Short track, HOH, a few H2Hs and maybe Iron Furnace before the big one. I'll probably add intervals in around the last week of April. After Mohican we just wing it! The fun part of racing.

Today was the last day of my big training block. I did a late night 30 on the geared mtb last night, another 30+ on ss with @Riggedfmx today and then a 7 mile run. Hoping to feel much better after a week off. Today was awonky one.
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Patrick

Overthinking the draft from the basement already
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Hope your Dad has the best future possible.
Been a tough couple of years - your mettle is never in question.

This was a serious homage just coincidentally great wordplay cause metal whisperer.
 

Dave Taylor

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Well, a week completely off(not by choice) puts my in an achy hell. That and I met a random cx guy(phil maynard) who was kind enough to guve me a slightly faster than anticipated tour.

Up here in northern pa there are tons of gravel roads. I went out around 2:30 to do some z2 (jra) without eating lunch. It’s about 30 degrees when i go out. The first 5 miles were easy then I met Phil and did some tempo climbing (I really think tempo is a horrible training zone). We rode for an hour or so and I split off. All I had was a bottle of water(had some skratch before ride) and some clif gels. I didn’t really bonk but definitely depleted myself and underestimated the climbing around here. To top it off the last roads were soft or no winter maintenance. This lead to ice or crunchy snow on the ups and downs. My 15mph quickly dropped to 10-11. Anywas, I stopped for a couple pics and it dropped to 26 by the time I got home. Phew!

Today is another day. I’m gonna try to do a similar ride on the ss. I’ll try to keep it slightly easier with one or two hard efforts.

Randomly we took my dad out to Vestel NY for dinner, cleaned a bunch of his house and went ice fishing on his pond. It’s been a good weekend so far.
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Dave Taylor

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Well, this week has been some shorter rides with two intensity days thrown in. I also decided to give wifey a weekend away(she treats me great!). So I am watching the dudes for the weekend. Zwift, zwift, skierg and core was what I can do while babysitting. Gonna get a couple long weeks in before a double header(mayhem and hoh). The following weekend is the stoopid 50 in Va and then I’ll take another rest week. The show must go on...
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Dave Taylor

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Oh man! Pre season always seems tough, stressful and full of sickness. I am just getting over my second head cold(most likely from being underslept, overtrained, overstressed and over tired. Oh well, life goes on.

I am filling in for someone at work so the days are flyjng by. 50 hrs a week is the new norm. I am only getting in between 7 and 10 hours the last few weeks but it can work. My diet is pretty good with moderate alcohol consumption.

Stress level is pretty high. I think the loss of mother, brother and not too far away my father...well as tough as you think tou are it wears on you. Add sidework and a full blown family and training is my vent.

Well the good stuff. I’m training with power and that’s going great. Focused z2 and z5 efforts are money. It’s been the trainer during the week(well Hartshorne today) and gravel/climby roads at my dad’s in Pa on the weekends. I was surprised by a bunch of PRs at Hartshorne today. Thanks for cruisin with me @Riggedfmx . I’ll be heading back to Pa again this weekend. As always, the show must go on. Here are some recent pics for your viewing pleasure.
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Mitch

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Turbo, a wise man told me the other day, "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth".
Keep up the good work, sorry to hear Dad is not well.
 

Dave Taylor

Rex kwan Do
So, this was an abbreviated but awesome weekend. The short of it. Worked friday, did a quick hour ride before heading 4 hours to dad’s place with the wife and kids. Spent the day at dad’s saturday and drove home that night. Woke up and did a ride at hartshorne Sunday with @av

Friday kinda is what it is so I’ll start with Saturday. We only went for the day as my wife has severe OCD and germs just drown her. Slept pretty good despite that. Woke up early and made dad breakfast, went out back and pruned his wntire orchard(about 10 fruit trees) while he watched myself, the kids and wife clean up the branches. Took the kids on a tractor ride and then headed inside. I spent about 3 hours cleaning his jitchen and dining room top to bottom, organizing mail and bills, as well as drinking beer. I loaded up his firewood and then spent an hour or so with him and the crowning moment was him holding his granddaughter, oh and my middle guy gave him a hug good bye(big deal this is). We stopped in Montrose for dinner, saw sone friends and headed home.

Sunday I woke at 6 to meet @alanv at Hartshorne. Man was it perfect! Perhaps the best I have ever ridden it. To top it off I did the first 30 miles easy and felt so good Indecided to lay the smack down. I PRd on a bunch of stuff as well as sone top 10s. I ended up at 42 miles and 5500 ‘ of climbing. I felt like I could have done another 50. This is huge this time of year.

After that we took the kids to the playground in the highlands, ate lunch at MJs and finally headed home. It was a great weekend. Looking forward to H2H endurance and HOH this weekend!
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Dave Taylor

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Man, this year just seems to be flying by! Time is the thing I feel I don't have enough of. Everything is rush rush rush! I guess having three kids, a couple guys out at work, too much side work and still wanting to ride and race is setting the tone. I will say this however as a quote from Frank Oreilly at Stewart last year "I feel like I got faster after each kid I had". Well ain't that the truth.

As you guys know I've been spending time with my dying father which is a task in it's own as he lives three and a half hours away in bummphuck Pa. The good to come out of this is that I get some long and grindy hill climbing Z2 while I'm up there. I've been doing some long n easy rides and runs for my base. I am happy how my training is going because with the exception of one or two cruise intervals I really haven't done any hard efforts. I am learning what my body needs. For me it seems to be cleaner calories, not necessarily less calories, more z2 training and less of that tempo crap. My body seems to really strive off JRA and SS zone training. Getting injured last year was a blessing in disguise as I was forced to do a lot of seated efforts on the road bike and that opened up a whole new spectrum for me. I like to call that spectrum hamstrings. Being primarily an SS guy I use a lot of my quads and not so much hamstrings. This is a good thing as now I can run a bigger gear on faster courses and still climb seated. Well zippity doo dah...I'm racing some gears now...wth?

So another battle for me is finishing a customer's truck at my house. I like to earn extra loot but it needs to be fun. So for me welding under 5 hours is fun. With this being a good customer I agreed to a longer job(10-12 hours initially) that has turned into way more than that(upwards of 30). Not fun even though he said I can do it when I have time. Well I don't have time. Thank god I only have a few hours left on it. And my wife is a saint btw for putting up with all my bull shit.

I'll cut to the chase now. This weekend was a double header for me. I decided to race open endurance at the Mayhem H2h race. I've been feeling good on the bike and was ready to rip. I got there early, pre rode a bit, and had a second breakfast before the race. I started with oatmeal, strawberries, nuts n honey at the house and had a PBJ about an hour before the race(I think this was the source of my stomach issues I'll talk about in a bit). So, 8:30 the race goes off. They started open and 45+ together. Well I like to holeshot and I pretty much pinned it to the single track. My goal was to put in 4 heater laps and then survive. You ain't racing if you ain't racin. Early in I realized it was just me, Steve Mancuso and his teammate Keith Lucatta(sp?). Pretty early into the single track our pace slowed as we navigated a random bunch of maybe 30-40 high school cross country runners. This kinda killed the pin 4 laps vibe for a couple minutes. Not sure how this always seems to happen in the middle of an awesome race start?! I lead the first lap and bobbled a turn after the pit area(brain fart) and those guys went past. I was comfortable sitting in and decided to go by again at the end of the 2nd lap. So I lead the 3rd lap and then followed on the 4th. About 1/2 way through the 4th lap Keith noticed some guys coming up that we weren't dropping. Well this turned into a 5 man paceline. I had now emptied my camelback and needed to pit. I grabbed a bottle, ditched the pack but also got dropped off by 10-12 seconds. At this point I was starting to have stomach issues(I think I mixed my endurance mix too rich and didn't have enough water to digest properly(or the pbj didn't gel well with the supplement). Anyways, my first 4 laps were consistent, the 5th and 6th dropped off about 3 minutes each but after cautiously trying to drink more water I came back. You see I was upheaving for two laps and kind of just put it in a mashy gear and had at it the best I could.

The good stuff is here. Now I am on lap 7 and firing on all cylinders again. I think I ran a 33 min lap. I am past the point of wanting to give up and am ready for the race to be over. I think I miss the lap cutoff but I get to the finish line and Mancuso is standing there and I have 7 seconds left. He was hoping not to do another lap and was there for 10 seconds according to him. He says"you really want to do another lap?" I said hell yea and it's gonna hurt. Well at this point I pinned it with Steve in tow. He said he was hurting so I just drilled it. We were in 3rd/4th at the time. Next thing I know we see 1st placing bonked n laying on the ground. I'm feeling good, no cramps or anything so I start yo-yoing Steve a bit and manage to gap him a bit before the climb. I stood up and mashed the climb and recovered down the other side and on the muddy jeep trail. I saved it for a good run through the mud. Ultimately I had no clue but finished in 2nd only 18 seconds off the leader(I never saw him though) and was able to put almost 2 minutes on Steve. Steve is a great friend and one of the guys who always gives credit and this time was no different. He is one of those guys I really like to race. Now I'm still trying not to peak until June 1st at Mohican. My rigid Ti Vassago was the weapon of choice. All 8 laps were nice and comfy!

Sunday rolls around and @Riggedfmx and I pin it to HOH. I was thinking I would be dead but honestly I felt pretty damned good. This was definitely a buddy ride as I rode with the Shore Cycling group as well as my team and a whole bunch of random friends. 82 miles was tough but I felt like I could have ridden forever. On a cool side not at HOH I had calibrated my power meter before. I hit my max power of all time(1907 watts) and my highest 5 second power of 1500+. In the end I finished with great food, great friends and ended up at home with a great family. Now on to the Stoopid 50 this weekend in Stokesville, Va where I have switched to the geared class(I know, WTF).

In advance I apologize for lots of first or 1st screw ups in my recap as well as my lack of proofreading. I am time crunched and this is what you get. I'll attach pics in a bit. Ride on!
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Mitch

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Dave is that the Niner Boost fork on the Vassago?
Nice write up, nice racin..
 
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