Today was a day off of training completely, I worked at the bike shop (do this now and then) I don't work often just now and again to fill in. I have learned a ton about taking care of my bike fine tuning it and general fixes that use to keep my bike in the shop for small fixes when I wanted to be riding. (The discount is awesome too :)
I was talking to the top mechanic there as far as gearing, if he thought I should go to a compact crank or on the other end go to a smaller cassette. Right now I typically use an 11/28 I feel it gives me enough range to climb as well as when I need to hammer it on the flats or false flats. I use a 53/39 on the front. Basically we talked about advantages and disadvantages and we came to the conclusion that I may want to go to the smaller cassette for the prologue being that its not a steep climb, but that my 11/28 should be sufficient.
Tomorrow starts a block of long days 70+miles or 4-6 hour rides, first day will be lots of hills and I will chunk them spinning some, powering some, and doing accelerations and roll overs on some. I will 6 to 8 climbs of varying difficulty half of them just over 2 miles two of them shorter but steep. The day after that will be a long ride about 5 hrs with only two real climbs at about the 60 mile mark the rest mainly rollers and flat. The third day I am still waiting to decide I want to see how my body reacts to this much training in a short time. It could end up a short ride with some good yoga and some core work.
I guess I should be dreading it but I am actually looking forward to it. The days will start early (I want to spend time with the family) about 4:30 or 5am get back be 10-12 then off to the amusement park or the pool to chill out.
Till later
Harvey
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