My RAAM training is pretty much over with. About the only thing long rides will do is make me tired for the race. I did the Acacia Park group ride on Saturday. It was only about 3 hours and I won’t even do anything that long between now and the start. I’ll do the Wednesday training race to help keep my high end fitness and a couple other rides with some short sprints.
About the only training now that will make a difference is getting used to heat. Last night I did my first heat training session. I put my trainer in the downstairs bathroom and turned on an electric heater. I borrowed a different heater from my dad than what I had used when preparing for the 2002 Furnace Creek 508. My dad thought this one would let me get it even hotter than the other one. It turned out I could only get it up to 87 degrees and with the other one I had gotten it to 93 degrees. This one does have a small fan in it so I pointed it at me and it felt like I had about 100 degree air blowing on me. We’ve remodeled since the last time I did heat training and there’s a bigger gap under the door so maybe I’m losing more heat out of the room.
In any case I did a lot of sweating in the 1 hour and 5 minutes I rode. My heart rate seemed at least 10 beats higher than it normally is for the easy effort I was doing. Danielle kept coming in and hanging out with me. She said I was going to be in big trouble for making such a mess on the floor with the puddles of sweat.
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You a sick monkey, Mr. Rob. A sick monkey.
At times like these, the differences between achievers and non-achievers on the bike is SSOOOOO obvious.
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