2017 USA Cycling Marathon Nationals Week: Tuesday

Tuesday 5/2/17

                Today’s purpose is to sharpen the skills on the bike. I prefer fast and flowy single track, tight and technical trails frustrate me. I’m not a fan of the slow bump and grind with trees and rocks. However, I acknowledge in order to be a menace of a mountain bike racer, I need to eat my vegetables and ride the techy stuff... It’s what’s good for me. Today wasn’t painful, Highland (the closest techy craphole trail) has a unique vibe to it. Since it is pretty hard to hit warp speed out there I found myself really taking it all in and enjoying the fresh leaves. It really makes one wonder why more people don't do this. Disclaimer: I recognize that sounds really Eco-douchey but it is what it is.

"Why travel all the way to Arkansas to just ride 50 miles?"

Here’s the numbers:

Miles: 12.7

Time: 1:25:25

Average Watts: 150W

Average Heart Rate: 132 Bpm

Total Climbing: 1699’

KJ per Hour: 543Kj

Green AF

Wet and Green AF

Worst Blogger Ever...

    I'm a bad blogger. That's not really an update, but this is. I'm currently one week away from ending my off season and starting my great 2017 Arizona adventure. After Iceman I continued to ride and train somewhat effectively. My intention was to train until the weather got too snowy. Two weeks ago the snow came to Michigan. I'm lucky enough to live really close to some of the best Nordic Ski trails in southeast Michigan. During the super snowy weeks of year I don't really like to ride my bike for two pretty big reasons. Firstly in the winter the road shoulders are pretty nonexistent and drivers do not even think to look for cyclists. Secondly the roads are icy and the training isn't as great as the risk. Instead I ski. I can get a pretty good workout in. Eventually I would like to put more time into the skiing craft but the past few years something gets in the way. When I first started skiing I was doing it on the weekends, offseason and mornings when I was running for the University of Michigan. Then Last year I skied during the only Snowy week (we were lucky to have a super mild winter). Now this year I am on the verge of skiing a lot but am lucky enough to go to Arizona in about a week. Someday, possibly when I am older I will ski race, however, for now I am happy to ski just for the enjoyment.

  

    In 2017 I will be starting off the year in Sierra Vista Arizona. I will be staying with family friends for from 1/2/17 till the first week in March. It is going to be very exciting. I intend to make the most out of the trip and train as much as possible. The biggest goal of the trip is to close some of the gaps between my competitors who have been cycling for many years and myself who is still pretty new to aspiring to reach elite level cycling. I have had a lot of help this year and see no reason not to continue to make everyone proud.  

Sierra Vista, I think (I googled it)

Skiing

The 3T Exploro built up.

Mid Snow Storm Skiing