Training

My coach uses a Saturday to Friday training week and this week is an easy week. Next week is my last high volume week and then I start tapering for RAAM.

Last Saturday I did the Acacia Park group ride. I stayed at the front and took a lot of pulls. The only time I didn’t manage to stay at the front was on Link Road when I attacked on the small hill and got a nice gap and stayed away for the sprint on the other side of the hill. After the sprint point, I slowed to let the lead group catch me. It was down to 5 people and they had the hammer down when they caught me. I had used too much and couldn’t get on as they went by. I chased on the way down to PPIR and caught my teammate Will that had gotten dropped from the group. We worked together but couldn’t pull the other guys back. I didn’t feel bad because the two of us and been working hard most of the ride and the other guys were pretty much just sitting on our wheels. After the group ride, I rode up to Denver into a head wind. I meet Julie up there at her sister’s house. It ended up being a 121 mile ride with an 18.0 mph average.

Yesterday I did the lunch time training race and went hard on the hill and tried sitting in on the flats. I stayed with the lead group until about half way up the hill for the last time. At the bottom nobody wanted to work so I went to the front. About half way up the other guys came around me and I didn’t have anything left and ended up getting dropped. I ended up in 4th and felt pretty hammered afterwards. After the race, my knee was bothering me again so I’m not sure what’s going on with it since it felt fine on Saturday. Tomorrow I’ll go see Dr. Wood and also have my friend that is an athletic trainer look at it to make sure it’s nothing to worry about.

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