Tonight's Ironteam practice was hill repeats on Mount Eden, while repeats are generally bore me easily, I have to say I actually had great time. The key is to make every time different, each time I reached the top I the coaches gave new instructions on how to climb the next time:

1. Regular climb
2. Half-standing and half sitting
3. All sitting...

This weekends Captain's Ride with the Ironteam, started at Natural Bridges in Santa Cruz with a 90 mile route straight up Highway One with a turn around in Half Moon Bay. The weather was the oposite end of the extreme from last weekend's ride at Lake Berryessa. When preparing for the ride I decided to put on an extra layer, a wise clothing choice ...

Friday night was a late drive up to Lake Berryessa, arriving at 11:30pm. Then up before 6am to be ready for the 6:45am swim start. I missed the talk about the swim as I was running late, so I just jumped in and followed everyone else. The water was a good temperature and clear enough to see to the bottom in shallow parts. ...

This weekend was America's Most Beautiful Bike, a century ride around Lake Tahoe, it also a national event for Team In Training with over 1800 participants and 8.5 million dollars raised for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. I joined the TNT cycle team, halfway through their training season to participate in this event. I had only managed to make a few rides with team ...

It was time to tapper for the Tahoe which was coming up in a just week. The rest of the Iron Team were off for a 80 mile ride, but for a change a shorter option the Cycle Team were doing had routes for a 27 mile or 45 mile route, naturally I picked the 45 mile option which lead up to Skyline. The ...

54.9mph! Well the graph above tell most of the story, but I'll tell the rest.

The Ride

Today was the cycle team's 80 mile ride, with the Tahoe Century coming up in two weeks this was the last long ride. We started out at Natural Bridges in Santa Cruz ...

How the day began, 6:30am the alarm goes off so I can join the Ironteam for the 50mile marker set. Now the reasoning process begins, "I'm tired I shouldn't cycle" then "I have a 80mile ride tomorrow", "I shouldn't ride 50 miles today", "I should get more sleep it is the sensible thing to do", "I'll get up a little later a join ...

I once again had the chance to do the Calaveras Loop, with a different starting point this ride was longer than the last at 78 miles in total. The ride started from Don Edwards Reserve in Fremont, near the Dumbarton Bridge. Although it appeared warm when I left home it was windy and cool when I arrived this was to continue through the rest ...

It is a week to until Wildflower, having not run or cycle since the Boot Camp weekend, I wanted to get a bit of riding in before race. The cycle team had organized a ride starting in Los Gatos, going up Highway 9 to Skyline with a couple options for return, either 84 or Page Mill, back to Foothill Expressway and back to ...

Day 2, was at Lake Del Valle in Livermore. A early start to the day with open water swim starting at 8am. Unfortunately I was running late a got a little lost on the way but still managed to arrive at 8:05am and quickly transition into the water. The water was good, cool but calm, the swim was 25 minutes out and back ...