Another Gorgeous Day in The Dirty South

Today I did my off the bike conditioning workouts in the morning after a 15 minute spin. This evening I did an hour ride with 6X30 sec power accelerations, 2X30 sec super spins and a 4minute, 3 minute, 2 minute, and 1 minute Zone 4 intervals in non preferrential gearing. Then enjoyed a 30 minute cool down as the sun was going down. Wrist is stil not healed and my left knee is feeling a little funky.

Nice Day= 3 rides

I started out my morning with my ritual of some stretching yoga, push-ups and headstand. My right wrist is still injured from the crash so I am having to do push ups and yoga moves using a fist instead of a flat hand. Then I did a 20 minute easy spin before breakfast. I headed out to Dasuset Trails at about 11am and rode for almost 3 hours. On my way home I saw lots of road bikes outside and since it was still light out I decided to do another 45 minute road ride. The weather was great and the ride was at an easy pace. I came home and did my Cool in 5 minute post ride stretching routine.

Beautiful Day In Georgia

I woke up and did my 30 minute high cadence spin on the trainer followed 25 minutes of some good core work. Around 3:30pm, I got to do my afternoon ride which consisted of 5 three minute hard intervals. After the intervals I did another 30 minutes of some easy spinning. Tomorrow is going to be a great 3-4 hour mountain bike ride at Camp Thunder.

Ouch!!

The weather was so nice today that I decided to put off my hard training day until tomorrow and just do a 45 minute mountain bike ride. I got about 10 minutes into the ride and crashed hard! Big Endo and then went down on some hard rocks. My right wrist and right knee are both injured. I should have ended the ride right away but finished the ride and went home for some advil and ice. Hopefully, my body will heal fast. I have a hard ride tomorrow, some core work to do and a super fun long ride tomorrow in the woods planned.

Back to work!

Today I woke up and did my morning exercises of some light yoga, followed by 25 minutes of high cadence spinning. Now I am heading into my office/bike training room for my afternoon workouts. I will do some light dumbell functional strength training after a 10 minute warm up. After the functional workouts then I will hit the trainer again for another 20 minute high cadence spin. This week has been great for recovery. Tomorrow' workout is faily easy as well.

Monday-Tuesday- Happy Days

2 days of rest in a row. I was hoping for an easier week as my body was screaming for some recovery and overtraining is not a direction that I want to go. Last night I did about 25 minutes of Recovery yoga and today I might go for an easy hike. This week will all be fairly easy with the exception of my Friday night ride.

Weekend Ridin' and trainin'

Saturday was a tough workout day. I started the morning with my 20 minute ez spin. In the afternoon I did a 10 minutes warm-up followed by 8 min power yoga 4x through. Interestingly, the first one was the hardest one. 8 minute power yoga entails 50 hindu squats followed by chair position and a little upper body and core work. After that I did a nice high cadence 45 minute spin followed by nice stretching routine.

Sunday- 4 hours of Camp thuder climbing and descending. It was great fun with the exception of breaking my chain. I will throw a new one today. I blasted a few of the longer climbs and did the best I could to stay up with my buddy Sean that descends like a champ.

I have a new bike on the way and am excited for it arrival. I am getting a new Gary Fisher Procaliber.