Texas Hell Week 2007

March 16th, 2007

Riding During Texas Hell Week

Hundreds of cyclists will be finishing up Texas Hell Week tomorrow. Bloggers Sascha and Steven have been writing about it. I wish I could have been there but it didn’t work this year.

It really started as a RAAM training camp. It used to be if you didn’t put in at least a 100 miles a day you were frowned on. There still are rides every day that a in the 100+ mile range but there’s also B and C rides that are around 60 and 40 miles respectively. Besides it being great training it’s a lot of fun. There’s very little traffic and interesting things to see. I hope to go again sometime and if you’ve never been you should plan to sometime.

Last year it was the best thing I did for training for the Race Across America. I got in 872 miles in 7 days. I had planned to ride another 100 miles on the 8th day but I was tired and it was raining when I got up. I decided the rain was a sign that I shouldn’t push it too much. You can check out my pictures from last year’s Texas Hell Week. On my page of pictures I also have links to my blog posts for each day that include the elevation profile for the ride.

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More Hell Week Pictures

March 24th, 2006

Nick Martin, a local photographer in Fredericksburg, took lots of pictures of us riding at Hell Week. He gave the pictures to Nick and Nick put them on his Zoto site. I looked through them and found some good pictures of me. It’s amazing with all the pictures there are only a handful of riders that I recognize. I guess that’s because I was doing the A ride or brevets every day.

You can also see my Texas Hellweek pictures (nothing new since I first posted them)

I’m late putting up this list but here’s a list of other blogger’s that were at Hell Week.
Annie
Eclectchick
Sascha
The S.S Blog
Recreational Reading


Somewhere on the LBJ Ramble.


Waiting to start the 200k brevet.


Rolling out at the start of the 200k brevet.


Time trialing up to catch Nick and Paul on the 200k brevet after hanging back and debating whether to go that hard.


Riding with Nick and Paul on the 200k brevet. My mountain biking is showing in how I have my knee out to make an upcoming turn.

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