Last of March training

Got some good riding in the past week. Raced last Saturday. Got a few good attacks in; felt good mixing it up. A few fixed gear sessions; one this week with Ed early in the morning. Then two commuting rides between Norwalk and Tarrytown- 2.5 hours each. About 10 hours total. Racing this weekend then the 200K on Sunday.

March commuting and racing

Three days of good riding. Friday rode from Stamford over to Tarrytown after work, beautiful out. I have the route down well. Saturday did Gimbel's long for about four hours. Sunday did the Bethel race and rode home. Attacked a lot in the race. In retrospect, probably could have been in some later moves, and also could have worked harder to bring back break. Good fun. Taking some time off this week; doing easy rides, then race on Saturday. After that, will start about three weeks of big riding, with first 200K coming up!

March Endurance block

Got some nice riding in the past few days. Saturday rode over to Gimbels then Tarrytown, for roughly 4.5 hours. The up to the Bethel race (via car), raced, then rode home, another 2.5 hours. Then Monday a one way shot to work, then Tarrytown; with a return trip on Tuesday morning, about 5 hours total there. Legs feel great. Still getting the weight down. Taking a few days off, then going to do another 3 day block of big riding (Fri-Sun). Race coming up on 3/26 and 200K is on 4/3. Re-worked my training and event schedules.

Have also been looking at travel arrangements for Paris.

First Race 2011 - CRCA A Race

Cold, drizzly, five laps. Fourth lap dropped. Never blew a gasket, just watched field ride away after descending the hill. Still working on endurance phase at the moment. Although August still about six months out, the focus is now on big miles.