Day 6
Today was the final day of our training camp, the ride to Kitt Peak. The ride is a touch over 100mi with a 12mi mountain climb in the middle of the ride. The ride was friendly on the way out, okay, mostly friendly until about 7 miles in. There was an early goading of the group by Gordo who went out about 100 yds in front of the group to see if there would be any takers. NYC Anthony couldn't resist and that began the up tempo portion of the ride about 30 miles from the climb. This was all fine and dandy until I flatted about 2 minutes into the fun portion of the ride. Luckily a couple more flats, the kindness of Coach JD, Kevin, Alan, a strong pull by NYC Anthony, and a poorly timed bathroom break by the lead group had us back together in the front of the ride. As we were approaching the turn off to Kitt, the one armed bandit, took off and was able to hold off the group to the turn off and then most of the 12 mile climb.
My goal for the day was to give a max effort for the climb and although I was pretty tired from the weeks events the climb went well. Four minutes and 15 watts better than last year. I think I froze through solidly on the way down and was then thawed on the way home by some of Anthony's and JD's pulls.
All in all this was another great camp put on by the guys at Endurance Corner. About 27 or 28hrs of work was done in 6 days with most of it being done on the bike. A big thanks to JD, Gordo, Dr. J, Alan, Coach KP, Aunt Sherry and anyone else that my fried brain isn't remembering that was involved in running this great week. Looking forward to EC Tucson Camp 2010.
Today was the final day of our training camp, the ride to Kitt Peak. The ride is a touch over 100mi with a 12mi mountain climb in the middle of the ride. The ride was friendly on the way out, okay, mostly friendly until about 7 miles in. There was an early goading of the group by Gordo who went out about 100 yds in front of the group to see if there would be any takers. NYC Anthony couldn't resist and that began the up tempo portion of the ride about 30 miles from the climb. This was all fine and dandy until I flatted about 2 minutes into the fun portion of the ride. Luckily a couple more flats, the kindness of Coach JD, Kevin, Alan, a strong pull by NYC Anthony, and a poorly timed bathroom break by the lead group had us back together in the front of the ride. As we were approaching the turn off to Kitt, the one armed bandit, took off and was able to hold off the group to the turn off and then most of the 12 mile climb.
My goal for the day was to give a max effort for the climb and although I was pretty tired from the weeks events the climb went well. Four minutes and 15 watts better than last year. I think I froze through solidly on the way down and was then thawed on the way home by some of Anthony's and JD's pulls.
All in all this was another great camp put on by the guys at Endurance Corner. About 27 or 28hrs of work was done in 6 days with most of it being done on the bike. A big thanks to JD, Gordo, Dr. J, Alan, Coach KP, Aunt Sherry and anyone else that my fried brain isn't remembering that was involved in running this great week. Looking forward to EC Tucson Camp 2010.
Photos by Sherry Daerr
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