Two Wheel Blogs

I had a peak at my upcoming calendar today and realized it's pretty full between now and the end of the month. Counting it all up, there are 2 crits and 5 separate TT's.

That set off a bit of a panic, because it was only yesterday that I began training in the TT position. I might have to race myself into being comfortable on my TT bike.

Oh but wait, can you ever be really comfortable on a TT bike?

The good news is, wattage wise, I'm doing OK. I just got off my bike after a little over an hour of what I like to call no-suffer 15 minute intervals. I like these because I don't need much rest between them. I basically ramp up from L3 at the start of the 15 minutes and slowly let the watts build. I don't even look at the power display. And I don't suffer.

To my surprise my SRM reported a 60 minute Average Power for this workout 16 Watts less than my best ever. Needless to say the PR came after a taper. Today's MM60 performance came with a -12 TSB.

So far the 2008 season's off to a pretty good start.

This just in: I happened upon a group of maniacs last weekend while I was out for a ride. There were about a dozen guys who do this crazy sport call streetluge. Where they get the nerve to careen downhill at 60mph less than 2 inches off the asphault...

So why am I showing you this? I'm the guy on the bike they blaze past near the end of their run.

I was probably doing about 20mph and putting out 200+ Watts. He was maybe going only 30 at the end of the run, but with a power output holding steady at 0 Watts. I'd say he had a slight aero advantage.