Yesterday I did my upper body workout followed by a cruise on my recumbent. I was semi-rainproof, because the weather report said I had a window of about two hours before the rain would start. If only the weather report could be trusted. I got rained on fairly heavily for about half the ride. Fortunately … Continue reading Local Ride in the Rain →

After friday's harder ride I cruised south to San Martin yesterday and did an easier ride for 1 hour 43 minutes. These recovery rides always make me feel better after, I call it "spinning the junk out of my legs". Posted on Strava After my recent discussion of the year (and month and week) records … Continue reading Easy Ride to San Martin →

Today was a hard riding day on my schedule, supposed to be 3 hours 30 minutes. I ended up cutting it short to 2 hours 35 minutes because the rain was much harder and steady than forecast and my raingear was starting to soak through. I headed up Monterey highway to Coyote ranch road which … Continue reading Hard Ride in the Rain →

Today was my upper body workout followed by an easy bike ride. I forgot to mention in talking about periodization yesterday that if your main exercise mode is lower-body specific like cycling, it is important not to neglect training the upper body with its own exercises. When I'm heavily emphasizing cycling like now, I still … Continue reading Easy Day Plus Upper Body →

Tuesday's ride was a long hard one so yesterday was an easy recovery day, just over 90 minutes near home. It was pleasant and my legs felt better afterwards. The ride is here on Strava The east foothills across Hill Ave Periodization Periodization is varying your training during the year to emphasize different things. Now … Continue reading Local Recovery Day and Periodization →

Yesterday I went for about an 80 minute ride before my group ride. I wanted to see if eating breakfast made a difference so I tested my speed on an out-and-back course to the Southeast of Morgan Hill. Yes it did- I was over half a mile per hour faster. I started skipping breakfast because … Continue reading Around The Reservoirs Group Ride →

Yesterday was hard upper body day so I did that workout first at home. Then I went for an easy spin on my e-bike which has fat tires, so I went looking for off-road trails. I proceeded up Main street east of town and used its dirt and gravel shoulder, which runs past Guglielmo Winery. … Continue reading Morgan Hill’s Canals and Other Dirt →

Yesterday I did a long ride (3 hrs 51 min, 46 miles) that included 3 local trails. I rode out Santa Teresa boulevard north to Almaden Lake park where I picked up the Guadalupe river trail, which I took as far north as Chynoweth. Then I backtracked to the park and took the Los Alamitos … Continue reading Three Trails Ride →

Just an easy ride yesterday (average heart rate 107) because I went harder the day before. I rode out Coyote Creek trail as far as the flooded-out section, then detoured around the flood on Monterey highway to Coyote Ranch Road . This was a nice pleasant ride because it was warmer today. Here it is … Continue reading Two-hour Recovery Ride →

http://www.Amazon.com/books The Year by Dave Barter is the amazing story of cyclists through the years who have ridden as many miles as possible in a year. To start out he describes his own attempt to ride a double century (200 miles) in a day. This is clearly a grueling task, including grinding it out riding … Continue reading “The Year”- Amazing Ultra-endurance Cyclists →