Sunday, April 09, 2006
Come rain come shine
What a glorious Saturday! After struggling through a lot of traffic and detours, I hit the black forest and was immediately amazed how little traffic there was. Much fewer bikers than on the Swiss side as well. For the first time, a fellow bike rider actually stopped to talk to me and we ended up riding up the hill together for about an hour. Perfect for chatting, anyway. He gave me some good tips about where to go, sent me up a nice 1100m hill and gave me his phone number if I was in the area again. Judging from his legs, he could be wherever I was within two hours ;-)
Then I met an older guy from Switzerland, who had a 190km tour planned for the day and may have stretched his stamina a little bit on his first tour of the season. We had great fun riding the 40 km home together, and we got some pretty nice speed. My legs were very, very strong on Saturday and if I hadn't promised my cousin's kids to take them to Ice Age, I would have done the 160km ride I will have to do at the Gigathlon.
The first hour was tough though, I am not used to the drinks I had on Friday night...
Why come rain come shine? To motivate me because of this DREADFUL weather. It is supposed to snow again tomorrow.
Training Summary:
Thursday: 60' run home
Friday: just the "commute" by bike, since I had to be in time to drin champagne for my friend's hen do
Saturday: 112 km road bike, about 900m vertical, average 24.1 with tremendously windy 20km on the way home. Beautiful black forest trip!
Sunday: 1 hr technical training, swimming, 1 hr weights (I know, funny combination, but it didn't stop pouring down today... and it actually feels good to work your upper body this much).
Then I met an older guy from Switzerland, who had a 190km tour planned for the day and may have stretched his stamina a little bit on his first tour of the season. We had great fun riding the 40 km home together, and we got some pretty nice speed. My legs were very, very strong on Saturday and if I hadn't promised my cousin's kids to take them to Ice Age, I would have done the 160km ride I will have to do at the Gigathlon.
The first hour was tough though, I am not used to the drinks I had on Friday night...
Why come rain come shine? To motivate me because of this DREADFUL weather. It is supposed to snow again tomorrow.
Training Summary:
Thursday: 60' run home
Friday: just the "commute" by bike, since I had to be in time to drin champagne for my friend's hen do
Saturday: 112 km road bike, about 900m vertical, average 24.1 with tremendously windy 20km on the way home. Beautiful black forest trip!
Sunday: 1 hr technical training, swimming, 1 hr weights (I know, funny combination, but it didn't stop pouring down today... and it actually feels good to work your upper body this much).
