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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz CA
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Apr 27, 2014 - 12:36am PT
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Wildflowers' Century down in Atascadero. Beautiful ride....but WINDY.
Another Century coming up this month! Really enjoying my biking this year.
Susan
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Apr 27, 2014 - 02:04am PT
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Good work on the century! Food's pretty fun after that, eh?
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coolrockclimberguy69
climber
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Apr 27, 2014 - 10:05am PT
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Did my pack test in 30:22! It's a three mile jog with a 45 lb weight belt to be completed in 45 minutes or less. Not a super fast time but if I'd have known that I was so close to coming in under 30 minutes I would've picked up the pace a bit.
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Apr 27, 2014 - 10:28am PT
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Four mile road race in Central Park this morning. Just over 38 minutes. Not great but considering the crowding, I'll take it.
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz CA
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Apr 27, 2014 - 11:50am PT
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Good work on the century! Food's pretty fun after that, eh? Thanks! The food is pretty good, before, during and after. One of the best spreads at every rest stop and lunch of all the rides I do. Plus their jerseys are always the best!
Susan
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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May 12, 2014 - 07:51pm PT
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First big test last week. Actually rode the new bike. I am not loving breaking in my butt....then again, 30 miles for the first ride maight not have been the wisest choice.
Hit the trails for an 18 mile run in the mud. Many thanks to husband who met me at the halfway point with dry socks and a sandwich. I am serious about the late summer 50K.
Then climbed St. Helens on Mother's day. Back to back days - and the only price paid was time. I was slower on the climb. I expected that and was delighted to finish and able to walk normally today. Treated to parapentes display on the descent. That got people buzzing.
Monday is a day off, then modest aerobic training this week. Big double next weekend. Hope this training concept stolen from an ultra website workks.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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May 12, 2014 - 09:06pm PT
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Swapped out the cyclocross tires for racing slicks Friday and did the SGRT from my house Saturday. 92 mi 16.5 mph average.
Bettered my Good Friday speed by a full 1 mph, even dealing with a bunch of traffic congestion from the Tour d' Long Beach at the half way mark.
It wasn't the tires, it was the training, and I finally got the dilution down correct on the fluid replenishment.
Sunday I shelled out the entry fee for my first road race late next month. (Bigring Century in OC)
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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May 12, 2014 - 09:42pm PT
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It wasn't the tires, it was the training
Maybe, but lighter tyres and wheels give me an additional 1 - 2 mph which really adds up on a long day. I led the Midnight Run around Central Park this year on my Cyclocross bike blowing the whistle. Had the heavy City flatproof 32mms on. omg. Next time, I change out the wheels and tyres.
PRd Saturdays Half Marathon. Stoked on that, a 13 day streak of 5 - 7 milers each day paid off big time.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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May 12, 2014 - 10:48pm PT
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I had some really light 35mm cyclocross race tires on it that had about all the tread worn off as well.
The big difference seems to be not getting knocked around as bad in crosswind gusts, and they do accelerate a bit faster.
Rolling resistance is about the same.
It was the 22mi after work "long way home" workout a couple of times a week and a once a week 40 mi ride with an altitude profile that looks like its giving me the middle finger that made the big difference.
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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May 13, 2014 - 10:53pm PT
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Ran 1.3 miles, scrambled up a couple hundred vertical feet of steep dirt, played around on some limestone outcroppings, ran 1.25 miles back (gave out on the last 0.05 miles and walked it). I feel like hell, but pretty good considering it's my first time running in literally 5 years. And I have to get my CV system in shape so I don't croak backpacking out to Temple Crag in 4 weeks. Thank goodness I have my energetic cousin to play the rabbit to my tired old hound.
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Ward Trotter
Trad climber
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May 13, 2014 - 11:12pm PT
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3 sets each 10 reps
---barbell curls
---concentration curls
---barbell wrist curls
--- barbell reverse curls
2 mile run ( 8 laps 1/4 mile oval)
4x 50 yd uphill sprints
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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May 16, 2014 - 12:08am PT
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Ran 2.4 miles in 21 minutes, without stopping. Improvement already! Guess I gotta run further next time.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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May 16, 2014 - 02:07pm PT
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Here's a little formula from 1979 from a guy named George Myers who studied winning marathon times.
Based on his research he proposed the following allocation of time to the various segments. Sure hope they add up to 100.
0-5 - 18,75%
6-10 - 18.15
11-15 - 18.55%
16-20 - 19.25%
21-25 - 20.35%
26-Fin- 4.85%
I can't find my numbers, but in my best, which was 3:25, my percentages came out pretty close to George's recommendatons.
Anyone else have numbers? I'm going to look for multi-record holder Ed Whitlocks's numbers (2:54:48 at age 73) and check him out.
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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May 16, 2014 - 02:17pm PT
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I ran my fastest Half marathon ever Saturday, but paying for it in training volume this week. Barely broke 20 miles.
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
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May 23, 2014 - 02:20pm PT
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I FFFFFF'ing DID IT! I made it up Bonny Doon Road which is a Category 2 climb for 3.5 miles without stopping. This has been a huge goal of mine this spring. I haven't been able to make it non stop and I finally did. At times I was cranking so slow I thought I would fall over but I pushed through. The whole ride from my house was about 26 miles and included 3200 climbing feet.
I. AM. SO. HAPPY. Yoga today. MUST.
Gotta upload it to my ST Strava group. Don't laugh at how slow I did it, just that I DID IT!
Susan
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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May 23, 2014 - 02:45pm PT
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Congrats Susan!
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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May 23, 2014 - 06:16pm PT
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The splits for the marathon are about right - except for the last one which I think you mean 25 - finish. My best was 3:10. I did a bunch between 3:10 - 3:12. Getting through the first 15 miles in 1:45 was easy. Somewhere between 15 and 20 the real effort starts. We referred to the last 10K as the second half of the race. I generally held pace a tad longer and then slowed down more precipitously between 18 - 20. Move that % for 20 - 25 up over 20%, and that reflects my experience.
I'm going to run the Happy Girls Half Marathon this weekend. Looking forward to seeing those handsome male pacesetters. I haven't raced in months. The goal is to get in a good quality workout - do a total of 20 miles including the warm-up and cool-down. That keeps me on track with the 50K training plan. The hard part will be running the 8 on the next day - I want to climb and only log a couple miles instead. Let's see if I can be disciplined in this training program....
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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May 26, 2014 - 09:39pm PT
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Did 105mi Saturday, with exactly the same average speed down to the hundredth. Talk about a statistical anomaly!
The plan for today was to do Baldy with 10 liters of ballast to be dumped on top to save the knees on the way down.
About 3/4 of the way to the Sierra Club hut the SB Co chopper started circling looking for "Jose and Jill" so I ended up dumping the ballast just in case I was gonna divert to going down one of the adjacent ridges. (turns out they walked out an hour or so later.)
The heel spurs must have grown since last time I had the boots on so just went to the hut and only got in 2200 ft of gain today.
There must have been 100 people up there today.
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, or In What Time Zone Am I?
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May 27, 2014 - 07:50pm PT
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This is why I love where I live. On today's ride I was in the mountains and then along some of the most beautiful beaches in Northern California.
Sunset Beach, Manresa, Sea Cliff, New Brighton, Capitola, and that's only the south and east part of Santa Cruz!
Beautiful Day!
Susan
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - May 27, 2014 - 08:12pm PT
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Beautiful, Susan!
I haven't been posting to this but I'm staying busy.
21 miles on the bke yesterday, and another ten today, plus a 5am jaunt up Ancient Art. One set of pull-ups and invert sit-ups with 20lb weight vest.
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