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| February 4, 2012 | ||
| 1:30 am |
I arrived early and was glad to see John L., Chris G., Geno and John B. arriving at the same time. We found a spot for a warm up ride and then headed for the start line. Chris M. and Ken arrived a little later.
The race started slow but quickly picked up speed after a couple of miles, I kept myself up at the front of the pack. The first turnaround point came up unexpectedly and was narrow, we pretty much came to a dead stop, after the turn the road was downhill and the speed quickly picked up again. At mile 16 we hit some rollers and I started to drift to the back, around mile 18 there was a short steep climb and I drifted off the back with a couple of other (older) riders. I rode with a couple of other people and we decided to keep the pace going even though we would probably not catch up with the main group. Around mile 25 the other people slowed up and I finished the rest of the race of my own. As I was about 4 miles out I saw John L., Geno and Chris G. who had already finished and were heading back to the parking area. I was glad to finish and came in 34th.
I thought this was a good location, easy to get to and the roads were pretty good. The course seemed shorter, I logged 46 miles versus the 54 on the race flyer.
Good to see so many team mates out there.
TNT – Feb. 2 (you would never do this on your own)
Feb 2, 2012 Race report, Team Rides, Thursday Night Training
prior to 6:30 – sign in
- 6:30 six lap warm-up (18mph up to 23mph+ on the last lap)
- two technique sprints
- now for the hard part… “first to the corner”. Ten laps of sprinting on the short sides and recovering on the long sides.
- skills training – 180′s to prep for Cherry Pie (slow speed skills as a “pack”)
- ”first to the corner”. Ten laps of sprinting on the short sides and recovering on the long sides.
- cooldown as appropriate (perfect paceline)
= 40 sprints. Wowza
See you tonight, Larry
Team Ride – Tour de Sponsors
Jan 30, 2012 Events, FFRT Members, Race report, Team, Team Rides
| February 11, 2012 | ||
| 8:30 am | to | 1:30 pm |
Lets ride to several of our sponsors and show them some love.
Meet at Niles and be ready to roll out at 08:30.s
Distance will not be great
I do want to get photos at each location. We will visit, in no particular order:
ESPT
Protoquick
Hughes Allmart
Chipotle
Rain will cancel
TNT – January 12, 2012
Jan 11, 2012 Race report, Team Rides, Thursday Night Training
- 6:30pm six lap warm-up building speed as we go
modifiers – pull longer if you feel strong, pull short or sit at the back if not feeling as strong
- 2 form sprints, small chain ring, good technique, no pulled muscles
- split into two groups, first group gets a head start, points race #1 – sprints every lap for 8 laps (5, 3, 2, 1 point)
modifiers – feeling good? try to win every sprint. Need to race smarter? try scoring 2nd or 3rd every sprint. Tired? Sit on a draft as long as you can.
- Holding your position in the field, also known as miss and out training – 3 laps SLOWLY asa group
- split into two groups, first group gets a head start, points race #1 – sprints every lap for 8 laps (5, 3, 2, 1 point)
- cooldown
See you tomorrow. Larry
New year’s Duathlon 1-7-12
Jan 7, 2012 Triathlons / Duathlons
Short and Sweet. Small no license needed Duathlon (so I am not sure this counts for you guys.)
Folsom Lake 2 mile run, 7 mile bike, 2 mile run.
Team members: Patricia Benson, Stacy and Bas Sopora and Jason Sage.
Bas had a foot issue so he volunteered on the course.
I have not run since May of 2010 but wanted a small challenge. I finished in 1:21:33. My bike portion was awesome!!! Felt great and I am happy with the time, 7 miles in 24:44. My “run” needs lots of work.
I will Let Jason and Stacy post their times as I do not have exact times. We all had fun.
Smiles,
Trish
TNT – Thursday, December 22
Dec 21, 2011 Race report, Team Rides, Thursday Night Training
Congratulate yourself for consistently coming out to these workouts. This is a great time of year to get together for a ride, so let’s wrap up the year in fine style.
-6:30pm warm-up paceline with increasing speeds. Mind the gaps and if you fee great you pull longer, not faster. Not feeling so great? sit at the back or make it a very short pull at the front.
-Two “form” sprints to show us you have good form in a really light gear and your body is awake!
- cornering drill on corner one
- 3 lap paceline warm-up, then
- 3 laps breakaway drill we didn’t do last week… groups of 3 to 5 of working together so that you stay away -and- that you place as well as you can
- 3 lap paceline together, then repeat breakaway drill
- 3 lap cool-down
finish by 8pm
I will not be at the Dec. 29 TNT session.
Larry
TNT – December 8th (6:30-8:00pm)
Dec 7, 2011 Race report, Team Rides, Thursday Night Training
Firstly, I want to mention that I will be giving a short presentation at the FFBC monthly meeting Dec, 13th. While aimed at the club riders, I hope to see lots of race teammates there. Please spread the word.
TNT – December 8th plans
- no rain is forecast but it looks to be cool. Great opportunity to dress in layers (i.e. zippers to regulate your heat)
- please arrive before 6:30pm so that you can sign-in before the session starts. The sign-in is not just for lawyers, it’s your contact info just in case…
- 6:30pm paceline warm-up – six laps with each lap getting faster (from 17mph to 22+mph; okay to split into two groups)
- two technique sprints (corners 2 to 3)
- as we are building our base of fitness at this time of the year we’re sticking to a good volume of work with not much recovery. Since some are fitter than others the workout goes like this:
a) five laps with efforts from corner 4 to 2 (wind?) and recover/ re-group from corner 2 to 4.
b) the majority of us make up a “pack” and simply rotate in a paceline maintaining a constant speed of 20mph. Those that choose to go away from the pack can do so by riding solo off the front. No joining up. Take a lap if you like or do your effort and drop back to us.
See you there! Larry
Calaveras TT results – Sunday December 4th, 2011
Dec 4, 2011 Time Trial, Training
A most excellent morning. Not a breath of wind, but on the chilly side, even though the sun was shining. All ion all, what you would want a typical December morning to look like.
Both Bill and Bas where on full TT rigs, Bill was riding the Team’s Leopard. Chris M was on aero bars
We had some guests as well riding, which added some nice flavor to the morning.
And i would like to really thank the Krush, aka Keith Kruse, who drove out from Milpitas to act as the turn marsahal and who brought back all the course marking. Thanks Keith, you rock.
Rajeev Shankur ** 34:33
Ram Menos** 33:07
Jason Sage 32:58
Vanessa McDonnell 34:33
Antonio & Matteo* 47:35 (Stefano’s children, who are probably somewhere between 9 and 11 years old raced a two person TT)
Trish Benson** 36:33
Rich Beeler* 27:36
Bob Fusco* 28:34
Mike Baxter 31:39
Mike Zuerlein 27:37
Bas Sopora 29:05
West Kurihara 28:02
Stefano* 26:55
Thomas Duncan 30:38
Brandon Chen** 30:42
John Lem** 26:50
Chris Menicou 26:19
Bill Brier 26:10
Bill Brier 2nd ride 26:06
* indicates guest ride by IC3 member
** indicates first ever TT race.
