winter fun

Ive been skiing 3x since I got my skis and equipment. Hansy and I have been going to the blueberry lighted loop but tried out the fit strip right by my house last time. Its walkable distance and has got a couple K classic loop so I'm in heaven... now if I can just figure a way to attach the loop to my yard.
Now I'm in Chicago and went out for couple rides recently. This pic is of yesterdays VCR ride, we began with 9... this is garrett, my dad, and me. The ride was gross, the more you pulled the less mud you got sprayed in your face, how about that for a training incentive. One more week and its back in marquette.

Discos gone

Somebody should buy one of these... Im holding off for the team bus. :D

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZtailwindsportscorp

team spinning

I spun for the first time in over a week. School and work have been keeping my time pretty filled but this time of year I'm not too worried. I'll get back into the groove of it pretty soon. Tom has some xc skis for me so I may be adding another aerobic sport to the menu.
Done with finals thursday then i should be back into the swing of things with plenty of adventure updates.

trainer

Rode on the trainer for an hour with garrett and eric. It's not boring yet. I did my first little test today with the pt. One 5 minute interval, and I managed 315 watts, goal for may: 400 in aero position.

skool

i lurn stuf in skool. But seriously, 2 1/2 busy weeks left of school until next years road season officially begins. I've been studying harder this semester than ever before, and its no coincidence that I have my hardest class schedule at the same time. I will be a few classes short of graduating next may so every half a grade makes a big difference right now. Anyways back to what matters... I may have found myself a coach from smartcyclinginc.com. Steve, the owner of the shop has been great to me ever since I met him 3 years ago. We will be meeting over winter break to go over my season goals and come up with a plan for me. YaY!

heres how the yoop partys after one of our cx races courtesy of andy gregg...

VCR ride

Garrett, Eric, my dad and myself met up with 5 others including koob and kevin from vcr for a solid november road ride. koob was on form as to be expected and kept the pace high. we managed 41 miles in 27 degree weather. this was my second day with the powertap and i got some good info. at the end garrett took off for a sprint eric followed and then me, i got the power a little north of 1000 watts, my only other time doing this i managed 900 so that was cool. It felt great to be outside and ride with a group again. you're lucky because im still figuring out how to get the cyclingpeaks graphs onto the blog so you're spared from the boring data ...for now.

back in action

I recieved my powertap last week!! I put it onto the bike and it works great... one problem. The guy who I bought it from forgot to sent the usb cord so I can see my power but cant analyze it and post graph and graph for your amazement in the near future. Anyways I've now been on one ride and one spin session with it. I like how true it is, theres no lying. And contrary to a heart rate monitor there is no lag in time so intervals can be much more even now.
The NMU teams first practice was yesterday indoors. There was 7 guys and I think as the word gets out there more will show up. My camera which has been broken for a long time should be back in business by the end of the week so I'll get some good pictures of spin practice and the PT.