It's been a pretty wet week. Either from sweat or rain, the latter bringing relief for the former. It's also been my first week back to serious training. Doing an hour and a half a day of upper-endurance/tempo work consistently feels like a major victory. Perhaps this summer I should have changed this blog title to "cat 2 flame-out." oh well, it happens, and as such I am already looking forward to next season.
Tuesday I ran into Brian Carlson (www.bikerbrian.blogspot.com) and he's got a pretty good write-up of the rest of the ride from Muskego park. Funny thing is, I thought I was the one having trouble keeping up, funny how that works out, I was the one who couldn't catch him in the park...
Wednesday I rode into work for the first time in the rain because I had promised myself to do it. Lo and behold it was great. It dried up during the day and after riding home to drop off my backpack and head out to see what Tans Dr. had in store. Brian and told me of it the night prior. Turns out it is a road that parallels the Johnson quarry and runs into Racine ave. It's got two good climbs, a short steep winding hill into a subdivision and a tree-lined climb that about .7 miles long with a few short steep sections, but generally consistent gradient. Thanks for the new ride Brian, it's only a handful of miles from my house and will make for great repeats. Finishing the second time up Tans, I look at the sky. oops. From there on out I was doing LT work all the way home, as I had the powertap on and those things are not fond of rain. Luckily I made it home just as the drops started coming down phew.
Unfortunately my dog ran out into the street and shouldered into a car a few minutes after I got into the garage and the skies opened up. Ta and I took her to the pet-ER but it turns out she's fine, only bruised her shoulder, no lung contusions et cetera. phew.
this post is done.
phew.
