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Fitness Training News

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Still Snow Up There. Today was hard to get out the door. That should have been an indication of how I would feel on the ride.

Started out late to do my favorite Sunshine to Gold Hill loop.

What I really wanted to do is go for another hike with my dogs but I really needed to get in a ride to continue with a 4 day ride block. Today was just a short climb.

I'm riding a fair amount right now to get in a good base before I head off for my April women's riding camp in Arizona.

As soon as I hit the climb on Poor Man Road I knew I was working too hard for the pace I was going. My heart rate should have been 130 and it was 155. Yikes! I would have told a client to turn around and go home. But did I? Nope. Continued on. Lucky for me I felt much better about 30 minutes later.

Almost bailed again at the turn off to Church Trail but decided it was OK to head up to Gold Hill.

Almost to the top of the climb I ran in to my awesome friend Shannon and some other friends. Talked for a little while and they went down and I went up.

Finished the ride in my usual time of 1:30. Not as bad as I thought.

Looking forward to tomorrow's road ride with Shannon and her hubby and then I'm meeting my own hubby for a mountain bike ride mid day. # posted by Michelle Grainger @ 7:00 PM 0 Comments

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Longest ride of the year Hey All.
Today was the best! I rode 87 miles with a good friend. She picked the mileage because she wanted to ride a Birthday ride twice her age. Guess you know her age now. I got to pick the direction of the ride. Since it was the longest ride of the year for both of us we decided to stay close to Boulder county.

We left Boulder and headed for Lyons, did the Fruit Loops, and then on to Rabit Valley, also a first for us. This was a beautiful quite road with a very slow incline. A route I will definitely do again.

From Rabbit Valley we headed for Hygiene to refuel with water and our own mixes of Accelerade. We saw so many people out riding beacuse today was a nice warm 60 degrees. It was awesome to see so many people out riding. Yeah Spring.

After Hygiene we headed east for somewhere near Longmont but I got a flat. Low and behold, as I looked in my seat bag, I noticed I had a mountain bike tube not a road tube. Woops. No worries, my friend had a road tube. After fixing the flat it began to go flat rather quickly. The valve was bad. Luckily we had a patch kit and there we sat patching the tube. It had to be one of my slowest flat repairs. 20 minutes! Obviously we were not in a hurry.

SInce we didn't have a tube we decided to head into Longmont to find a bike shop and buy a tube. Well, wouldn't you know, every bike shop we found was closed.

After zig zagging all around Longmont I was tired of the traffic and wanted to head back north and add on more miles. So
off we went back to Hygien and back to north Longmont (remember, we are trying to add miles to make sure when we returned to Boulder we had over 86 miles)

We then headed back south east toward the Diagonal from Airport Road and headed back into Boulder.

Once close to our cars, we realized that we were 2 miles short. So we spent some time heading towards the Holiday areaa in north Boulder and looped back around, ending at Performance Bike shop where we parked.

Most notible area was Rabbit Valley.
Most notible thing we saw was this hugh, and I mean hugh, bull frog.

Hope everyone had a great day today where ever you live and ride. # posted by Michelle Grainger @ 11:39 PM 0 Comments

Friday, March 2, 2007

Upcoming Desert Training Camp I'm getting ready for an April cycling training camp in Arizona. I will be one of the head coaches for week 7 of Desert Camp, offered through Pac Tour (http://www.pactour.com/desert.htm).

I have been riding as much as I possibly can considering the very snowy winter we have had.

My favorite ride has been to start at my house at 7,000 feet and head down hill to a dirt road called Poorman Road. I then climb Poorman road to another canyon road called Sunshine Canyon. From there I climb for about a little over an hour to aproximately 9,000 feet. At that point I put on a thick winter coat, extra thick gloves and head back down to my house.

The ride is short but sweet and I love the awesome views. # posted by Michelle Grainger @ 7:34 PM 0 Comments

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