Training Update - 4.10.2008
Looks like my training is on track. Just to see what is what I went on a group ride last night and am pleased with the result.
Let me start by saying that my past group ride experiences in Rochester were pretty sucky. I'll take a majority of the blame for this. I'd wait till partway through the season and show up for a group ride with no miles in the legs. I'd then get shelled and blown off the back. That would discourage me from riding with a group for about a year, where I'd repeat the pattern.
My approach has changed, it takes me a while to learn some things, and I finally got it. Maintain some fitness through winter, then you stand a chance of hanging on the group rides.
That, and don't do the practice-race group ride. ... Unless you're prepared to race.
So the Wednesday night, shop group ride is a medium/high intensity ride. The Tuesday rides are the practice-race rides. So last night 5 of us left the shop for a 35 mile ride.
Overall it was a nice ride. I didn't get dropped, took good pulls. We even got a nice paceline going for a while.
One thing I can tell, is I'll need to get some more climbing in. But I have to keep doing endurance stuff too.
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Thursday 04/10/2008 | 11:58 am
Brian on Friday 04/11/2008 | 08:37 am
To be honest, the Tuesday rides are normally not much worse than the Wednesday rides. Unless someone is very much out of shape no one is allowed to get dropped from either ride. If you can handle Wednesday rides you should be able to handle Tuesday as well.
Gunnar on Friday 04/11/2008 | 12:20 pm
This is good to know, is it a new 'rule' that no one gets dropped?
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