And race day is here!
The ultrashea
"It doesn't have to be fun to be fun"
"We don't make sacrifices. If we truly love this sport and we have these goals and dreams in the sport, the classroom, or in life, they're not sacrifices. They're choices that we make to fulfill these goals and dreams."
-Deena Kastor
"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift"
-Steve Prefontaine
Saison Dupont on draught!
Good morning, sunshine! Time for pre-work base miles!
It’s 5am - do you know where your competitive cyclist is?
~2 hours of base miles before work
Another base mile Sunday - watching 1998 Giro and Tour, shooting for 5-6 hours on the trainer
2 hours of cadence work on the trainer this morning, followed by massage. Plans for this afternoon? Testing my resting heart rate
Post-ride smoothie (1-1/2 bananas, 2 scoops Monster Milk). RRRAAAARH!!!
Friday dinner? 2 bottles of Perpetuem, 2007 Paris-Roubaix DVD, and my bicycle. This is what happens when my better half is out of town
Best way to start the morning? 10x100m sprints on the track, 2x10 box jumps, followed by scrapple + maple syrup for breakfast!
Behold! The most dignified dog in the world
Only things keeping me awake (not pictured, SLAYER!!!!!)
Insomnia sucks. Have been awake since 3. Currently trying to decide if I’m going to the gym as I’d planned.
Back on the bike. 2 hours yesterday, 4-6 hours today
Hey Comcast! All I want to do is watch a movie! It’s not like I’m trying to download the library of Alexandria…
Why yes, I would like a heaping cup of pain....
To start the new year off right, I decided to spend a couple hours today doing the Sufferfest Double Challenge. At roughly 1000CST this morning, I started with The Downward Spiral
60 minutes of The Downward Spiral, a very short (sub-2 minute) break of easy pedaling, then 60 minutes of Fight Club
and then, I was done. In more ways than one.
120 minutes, 2 bottles of Cytomax, many, many calories, and lots and lots of elevated heart rate time (see below)
Showered up quickly after the ride, mixed/drank a bottle of Gu Recovery, and finished refueling with the traditional SheaStack (eggs over easy sandwiched between pancakes). Since then, I’ve eaten the following (and I’ll still end up low on calories by bed time, most likely):
- 1 Clif Builder’s Bar
- 1 Subway double-meat 6” roast beef sub
- Double portion high-protein pasta
- 1 oz wild boar salami
- 1.5oz black olives
- 1 glass Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Blanc
It’s about 8 hours later, and my legs are still fried. Right now, I’m really wishing the bedroom was on the first floor of my house. Tomorrow I’ll do an easy 4 hours of base mileage on the trainer and finish setting up the exercise room/torture chamber.
The full set of pictures for my Sufferfest Double Challenge are available in a set on Flickr.
