Group ride with the team

Not a whole lot to say.  Spent most of last week riding the bike to work.  Getting chilly out, but still pretty manageable.  Kind of nice, actually.  Even though it's dark for my ride home, it's not really that bad.  The roads I use aren't very busy.  I did alter my route just a bit to avoid one of the busier roads.

Yesterday, I went for a ride with the PSIMET/Zilla race team.  This was my first real group ride with them, and it went well.  Truthfully, they were riding a little slower than I had hoped for, but that's fine.  Per my training plan, I should have done a few hours of Zone 2-3, but I spend most of my time in Zone 1.  Oh well.  We also ended up stopping way more than I typically would.  When you get that many people together (11 or 12 for yesterday's ride), you seem to end up stopping more.  It was a nice ride anyway.  A lot of roads I've never been on before.

That's it for tonight.


Stuff:

• Wednesday:  Commute to work
• Thursday:  Commute to work
• Friday:  Commute to work
• Sunday:  50 miles with the team
• Monday:  Spinervals 18.0 - Aero Base Builder III

Skilz

Haven't posted since last weekend, I think.  Not much to say.  Instead of doing my recommended Spinervals training videos every night, I have opted to substitute some bike commuting.  These days, most of the workouts in my program are aerobic-base workouts - typically fairly long, low-intensity workouts in Zone 2.

Instead of 90 minutes on the trainer in the evenings, I'm doing about 90-100 minutes outdoors.  Approximately 45 minutes in the morning, and 45 minutes in the evening, to and from work.  It's been a little chilly in the mornings, but not too bad yet.  We're supposed to be getting some snow early next week, so we'll see how it goes.  I'd like to keep riding though.  Although it might not be the most fun thing to do, it definitely beats getting on the trainer after dinner.  Once the suggested workouts change from aerobic base to more high-intensity intervals, I might have to change my plan a bit.

So, I ended up riding to work four days this past week.  That's one more than I was scheduled for with my workout program.  Then, today, I did a skills clinic with the PSIMET/Zilla racing team.  Working with Coach Randy Gaffney from Peaks Coaching Group, we spent about 4-5 hours doing paceline work, cornering and sprint leadouts.  We had a group of 15 riders today, and we all had a great time and learned a lot.  It was pretty awesome, and I'm looking forward to doing something like this again.

Paceline work out on Hwy 119.

Tomorrow is supposed to be a rest day.  I'll probably do some resting, but I also might get out for a run, or do some strength training here at home.  We'll see.  But it will almost definitely be a day off the bike, which I think I need.