Today’s ride kind of took it out of me.  It started with a field test on a climb here in town. Yesterday I did some scouting and this one will be a good way to test my progress that I make.  With a week of riding in my legs I felt ready to get the baseline numbers. The results were nothing spectacular, but higher than I’ve ever started building the foundation from any other year. I’ll repeat this test once I’m done with each training block to confirm my progress along the way.

Getting this test done took about 1:15 of riding and after that I was out of town getting in the workout.  I put in a solid five hours and felt pretty good until the last 30 minutes. It wasn’t a full-on bonk, but definitely right there at the limit.  Had I of done this same ride in the Midwest it would have been a bonk for sure. Somehow the cold or damp air takes that much more energy to overcome. I rode down to parker dam then up the California side of the lake to this little landing/campground at the end of the road. It was perfect that they had a little market there as I reloaded with Gatorade and Nature Valley bars for the ride back home.  The climb out of the landing area was a solid four miles on some seriously rough pavement. Going up it wasn’t so bad as the trip down. My teeth were rattling!

The picture looks kind of dull, but the lake was a nice view actually…

Its red potatoes, fish and fresh green beans for dinner, I can hardly wait! I should be set to do all of this riding again tomorrow.  The tan is already starting to show up so I’ll be nice and dark by spring time. Have a good one,  TJ