Bike riding and training things for the week of Feb 17-23

Team Bi-atch member Chris aka F*ckermans training schedule for Feb. 17-23

Sunday: 3hours on the fixie and it was crap out: tough guy conversion calculator 4hours- 2 beers

Monday: First I would like to thank all the US Presidents for all their hard work and contribution to the nation and society at large (except the current fella) and for the day off. I took off on the fixie but flatted about 10 minutes from home, so I turned around and rode home on the flat, grabbed the Redline Cross bike and did a 2.5 hour road ride. I added a few hill efforts for good measure and it was cold and rainy so tough guy conversion 3 hours.- No beer

Tuesday: 1h15min run with some plyometric thingies. I walked funny the next day so I must have done them right, right?-glass of wine ( I am one classy fella...um ladies!!!)

Wednesday: rest by choice- no beer but too much coffee. That gets the heart going right? Maybe I should wear a heart monitor when drinking coffee??

Thursday: CRAPPY OUT and I am a sissy so another day off but I had a great nap after work- No beer

Friday: I took the day off from school to get more work done to my teeth(but school was canceled because of the weather anyway, yippee!!!). You remember me talking about it, last April I face planted knocking out my grill. I will try to include a picture but director sportif sometimes censors us. Back to training: 1 hour trail run which was a whole lot of fun in the snow and I was so inspired by myself and since the roads weren’t too bad I jumped on the Redline and road almost 2 hours….STUD but no tough guy conversion!!!-2 Beers

Saturday: Well, with the race season nipping at our heels I feel as though I need to regain some structure back in my life. With the hand surgery and the cold days my focus has been a little out of wack. Sleeping to noon needs to stop so I decided to get up for the world famous 10am DC Rockcreek ride. Now I struggled to get up especially since I was up past 2am watching inspirational Youtube clips sent to me by our director sportif. I managed to schlep my butt out of bed by 9 am anyway so I could make the ride. It is only 5 minutes away from my apartment door. After I got the coffee brewing I opened the door and man was it ugly out. Some awful mix of rain, ice and snow, I thought about going back to bed, but I figured the BMW driving cyclist of DC would still arrive even though it was ugly out they seem to be a hardy bunch, boy I was mistaken. When I got there no one was around, heck!!! What a bunch sissies, time to move back to West “by god” Virginia were the men are men and the sheep run scared but they all ride in crappy weather. So what did I do? I did the 10am world famous DC Rockcreek ride alone in the rain, ice and snow: 5hours and almost 90 miles but I had gears so no fixie tough guy conversion but I get the tough guy ugly weather conversion points so 5.5 hours. – 3 beers

WEEKS TOTAL: 14 hours real time, 16 tough guy conversion hours, 7 beers(probably more), 1 glass of wine, lots of coffee,a whole lot of fun, snot rockets and smiles

Get out there ride, have fun and ride some more. It is cathartic ya know...better then _______ I have heard!

Training.....what!!!-revised part 2

A big thanks goes out to director sportif for correcting my training schedule start and stop days!

So I finished up with...

Thursday: 1 hour Valentine run with some plyometric thingies that make you walk funny the next day if done right-no beer

Friday: 2 hours on the fixie. Which if you convert into tough guy miles you get 3 hours-3 beers

Saturday: 3 hours on the fixie with some hill efforts. Tough guy conversion 4.5 hours-3 beers and a slice pizza after midnight

We did miss the start of the Tour of California. I believe director sportif is getting a little too old and his memory for dates is getting a little questionable.

I will tell you about all my exciting antics on the bike from this week next Sunday! So get out there and ride, have fun, smile and drink a beer.

Training... what??? Revisited

Brother Chris, et al,

The 15º commute in was not so bad.
What *was* bad was that my front brake left me (cable slip) and I went down the first hill, Willey, with out the rear brake (wasn't connected). Made for some excitement at the bottom for sure.
This is just one problem with the early morning commutes. And it's freakin' cold!

The rest of the ride was most enjoyable as cycling should be.

Sunday is not the beginning of the training week, not the beginning of the training period, not nothing.
Sunday is the end.
It is the culmination of the weeks work, what we look forward to the most, be it the long ride, the big race, the big booze fest afterwards, the end of the too-short weekend.
Monday starts the week. Sometimes it is w/ needed rest, sometimes it's just another day in the week of commute/training (as is the time now). Sometimes it's just Monday.

Hope that clears some things up.
Amen Brother.

Training.....what!!!-revised

The training week started on Sunday...oops 3.5 hours on the fixie its hip, its cool, its all the rage but I have fun on it and I don't wear Chuck Taylors and do wear a helmet... I ain't no hipster, I ain't no disco....

Training.....what!!!

Monday: business casual run, some plyometric thingies...1 beer

Tuesday: Ice Storm, no training but I thought about it....3 beers

Wednesday: more Ice storm, worked late, no training and did not think about it...2 beers with cute girl-Bunny would be happy

....more to come

Training.

Associate Betsy has been buggin' me about updating my blog, so here's an update.
Course I don't even think she knows about this one. It's so new, it's so fresh, it's so-so.

Training schedules, efforts, and maintenance vary from client/associate (they are one and the same), but with each and every step we strive to make sure that the client/associate (here on out known as c/a) are as happy and satisfied as possible. Cause a happy cyclist is a happy racer!

For c/a gunn4r and Betsy, the training is to be as follows for the month of February-

Monday through Friday

commute to and from work

Nars is to return home the extendo route when possible

Bunny is to return home the extendo route

gPS is to meet the good Dr. on her route home when possible

Any NIOSH employees should also supplement the weekly training w/ these programs available at the Wellness Center; Amazing Abs, Boot Camps, and the Lunch Time "hour" rides

Saturday

This is the day that the Fiend hath made for slight resting and spending more time w/ Jackie O.

Hiking, hiking, hiking. Up at Coops. Down to town. Down to Don D.'s saturday evening communal get together (to score food, beer, and mingle)

Sunday

The Sunday Baker's Ridge Ride. Ride there using the approved short-way-there route. Ride hard, have fun, go boonie-biking w/ the others. Drink beer post ride, socialize. Ride home the approved long-way-back route.

Remember to pack extra hat/ear protection, gloves, windbreaker, provisions, beer (the cheap variety).

Evenings

Go for longish hikes/walks w/ doggie across the way. Make sure she doesn't follow the deer too far. Make her run long and far for her sticks. Remember to have her bring one stick home to add to the pile at the front door.

Go. Fight. Spin.

Wow.

That sure is some awfully pretty background images.
It just looks so... nice.