This is the first 10speed bike we ever sold and I ever built. (Shimano 10spd that is, Campy had 10 speed YEARS before this) The pic is dated form Dec of 2003. This bike was bought by a dude named Butterknife. He loved to spend lots of money on super nice stuff, but was super slow. This is a 5500, which was Trek's 120OCLV frame w/ Drua-Ace 10speed. It was the shiznit for a while.
We had a string of nice weather here (not quite killer, but nice). Temps in the 50's and relatively dry roads; excellent for January riding. Since it was a warm front during cold season, it tended toward being windy as hell, but I've seen worse. All in all, we got some quality rides in. I kind of tweaked out my left hamstring at some point (I can pinpoint it to doing threshold intervals on Thursday 1/21 when it was pretty cold in the a.m.) Doing hard efforts when your muscles aren't warm and supple is playing w/ fire. Anywho, I iced it, stretched it and otherwise tried to ignore it and it seems to have subsided. Since it back to inside riding for a week or so, you (I) tend to notice little things more than you would outside with ~things~ to distract your (my) mind. I noticed my left leg in general more than normal, but I think it's fine.
I was able to get out Monday for a recovery ride, plus it was "nice" enough to get both Lindsay's and my road bikes cleaned from a week or more of nasty-ass outside riding. The sand the city dumps on the roads for cars to get traction does a serious number on a bicycle. Not to mention the general wetness. Both bikes were in need of a good Muc-Off bath.
So, with the end of January comes the end of my running for this season. I started back on Sept. 1 and ran 32 sessions. Probably about 96miles or so (~3/session av, kind of a guess though). Pretty serious stuff, huh? I won't miss running. I was running with focus during the CX season and doing some max effort (fartlek?) hills to try to replicate the intensity of running up a "wall" in a race. It might have helped. Whatever, until next Sept, I won't worry about it!
Keeping up good hours on the bike and lifting 2-3x/week. That'll get me through another 6 or so weeks. Then go time.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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