Sunday, February 18, 2007

Training - Week 20

Man, this was a hard week--not a ton of time, but a lot of intensity. Tough call whether to keep hitting it hard for another week, or recover now. hmmm... maybe the rain will decide!

Number of rides: 7
Riding time: 15 hrs
Time in mid/high aerobic zone: 9 hrs! (*)
Best ride of the week: A tie... Wed Solvang w/ Cookie and Ben, and Pine Flat RR. A lot of time pulling hard in both.
Other: some baseball
Notes:
- (*) What I roughly mean by "mid aerobic zone" is an effort level at which it's difficult to breath through my nose, but not impossible. "high" means full-on mouth breathing. Pretty unscientific I know, but still meaningful imho. This week had a lot of mouth breathing!
- Rode tt bike twice on C.O. course: 37:30 and 38:30 both w/ stoplight at Glen Annie.
- OSM in 15:24 Thursday.

4 comments:

Henri said...

man, you roadies train to much! HK

Marco Fanelli said...

Well, sometimes it feels like it, especially at our ages, right HK? But just when I was feeling sorry for myself as I *drove* away from Pine Flat on Sunday, who do I see *riding* back to Fresno? ... a couple of Strawberries, including Hunt (I think it was him) who is not exactly a spring chicken. Sigh... if you want to ride with those guys, I guess you have to put in the time.

Henri said...

Hunt and Ossie. JH is way serious about his training and all else!! He was going to retire this last season but felt he had a bit more to show..
Looks like all that time on a TT bike is getting you ready for somethin'? HK

Marco Fanelli said...

HK said:
> Looks like all that time on a
> TT bike is getting you ready
> for somethin'

Yeah, like not getting last at that Central Valley Classic tt. I hope there's not a time cut!! How's that for a positive attitude!?!

Next year I'm gonna take up something easy ...like cx.