Iron Mountain ride

Juntti, DA, Lackey, Wes, yours truly, toph, Langer (photo by: d sportif)

Finally was able to get that really good outdoor ride in. Yesterday 8 of the Ace guys met at Toms early and we headed down to Iron Mountain for an epic ride. It was mid 40s and sunny all day. We went hard right from the start, literally attacking hills in the first 5 miles. Yes hills... IM has lots of them, I didnt realize this but trust me I'll never forget. Derek and Juntti came to play breaking away whenever possible even doing an extra 4 miles because they liked one hill so much that they felt like riding it twice. I got into a couple breakaways as well, including the last one with Andy and Tom and that one hurt bad... I was doing everything I could to push the pedals and keep trading off pulls at mile 82. A great March ride!

Ride Stats:
Time - 4:56
Distance - 87mi
Min Max Avg
Power: 0 1128 174 watts
Cadence: 29 141 84 rpm
Speed: 2.2 39.8 17.7 mph
Pace 1:30 26:49 3:23

weather suckssssssss

Well the UP weather is at it again keeping me on the trainer. I know I know... get a cross bike and ride outside! I like to ride the good stuff (Giants) so if I would have bought a crappy bike like a trek then I probably could have afforded one. So next year i guess. Here are some pics of the new ACE kit!!

Practicing for what I can hopefully do at least once this year!! \/ \/

getting back

Here was a good threshold (276w) workout



tom gave me a pros power workout for the build period, its 4 hours... but what the hell maybe i'll try it soon.

Easy week

Took it really really easy this week. I think AZ wore me out a bit. Time for some real bike training now!

bad timing...


Ahh yes, and I'm playing with the look ala Chase Deez, this isnt quite it though.

video

cool video check it out!

http://www.dothetest.co.uk/

last day az

Thursday was the last day. We finally made it over to the south mountain, a 5 mile climb to the top. Only a few pics but here they are:

wednesday az

gave the legs a rest for the south mountain tomorrow. saw illinois gma and did some studying...