Well, for some reason my Garmin decided to combine my ride on the rollers a couple of days ago with my hour long run over the Scenic Loop.  Here is a link to it, but it is all messed up.  It says that I was going for 49 hours, which was how long the Garmin was sitting around between the two activities.  I know the Garmin was off the entire time also, so I don’t know what is going on. I was doing my favorite workout of 5 on, 3 off, 5 on, 3 off, 4 on, 3 off, 4 on, 3 off, 2 on, and so on.  That is the graph above. 

I felt terrific on the run.  My lower leg didn’t hurt one bit.  I hadn’t been able to run for awhile, so it ws a blast to get out there.  Here is a graph of the elevation compared to my heart rate.

Well, I got out on Friday with Claire and A2 for a little lunch ride.  We did the Roblar-Valley Ford loop.  It was very pleasant out there.  I think A2 had a good time.  He is a jack-rabbit on those uphills.  We had to be back at the shop for a meeting with our C-dale rep.  We are real excited because we have a bunch of the 2009 bikes on the way.

Claire and I went down the basement and rode our bikes in the yesterday morning.  We did a Chris Carmichael workout that we had on tape.  These videos are a great way to stay on the trainer for an hour without going crazy.  You can purchase these on DVD at The Hub Cyclery.  I rode the rollers while Claire rode her Cyclops Fluid trainer, which is available at The Hub Cyclery.  We did the time trial workout, which I think is one of the harder ones.  Here is a graph of my heartrate.The workout consisted of some 5 minute intervals with 5 minutes of rest in between each, with a final 12 minute interval at a little bit lower intensity.  Today we hope to get out with A2 for a lunch time ride.  A2 is really getting into mountain biking, and doesn’t get out on the road all too often.  Now that he has a new Cannondale 29er singlespeed, he wants to spend all of his waking moments in the dirt.

Yesterday I went out on my cross bike and did my favorite loop.  Actually, that was not a link to my ride yesterday since my Garmin decided that it would not let me download my info.  I decided to race my last time over the same loop using the courses feature of my Garmin.  That was pretty cool and I was able to keep up with myself except for heading through Willow Creek State Park where it was a lot muddier that it had been last time.  I also had some trouble at the very end since the wind was right in my face on the way home on River Road.  My average heart rate was higher than the last couple of times.  I think I averaged 167 beats per minute instead of 150ish the last couple of times.  I got poured on a couple of times during the ride, but except for very cold feet, I was quite comfortable.  I finished 2 minutes slower than last time.

Well, it was great having the time off in January and riding a bunch, but now it seems that we are back to our once a week rides.  The shop has been way too busy for February.  Anyway, last Monday Claire and I rode with A1 and Melinda.  We were on tandems and we did the Dillon Beach loop.  It has been a while since Claire and I had done this loop.  It used to be a weekly ritual, or so it seemed.  The wind was in the totally opposite direction as usual, so it was interesting riding out Fallon-Two Rock Road and being pushed along.  A1 and Melinda were real troopers as usual.