Quick Update
Saturday was marked by a huge wind storm lashing Western Washington. Sustained winds up over 40 mph and gusts up to 60+ mph. Not a good day to be on the bike, so luckily I had a power test on the schedule that would be accomplished on the indoor trainer. I spent most of the day watching and filming an old 80 foot tree in our neighbors yard rock and sway. The root ball was causing the ground around the tree to heave as if the earth were breathing. I noticed some stress fractures form in the bark and wondered out loud while filming whether the root ball would let go or the tree was going to crack about 15 feet off the ground. I was taking a break from filming when SLR and I heard a loud crack followed by a rumbling boom. The tree had given up the fight and I missed it. Luckily, it fell in a place where it only took out power lines and did no damage to homes or fences.
With that excitement out the way, I commenced my power test. The test involved one five-minute maximal effort, two one-minute efforts, and two fifteen second efforts. The results create a power profile. Those durations reflect power at maximal oxygen uptake, anaerobic capacity, and neuromuscular power. The results were very encouraging. I put out a personal best for the five minute interval. This is very exciting, because I have not even begun my build phases yet. During build phase, I will include some lung searing intervals to build up sustainable power at the various durations. Bottom line, I'm faster now then ever before and I can expect to get faster!
On Sunday, Hayes and I did our Tiger Mountain climbing day. We were on the fire roads early so we could get back in time to watch Seattle do battle for the Lombardi trophy. We hit the climb to West Summit, Cross Over Road, and the power line cut. Total ride time was in the neighborhood of three hours. The beautiful thing was that the sun was shining and the skies clear. A drastic change from weekends past when we were battling snow, rain, and wind. The legs were a little cooked from the power testing the day before, but any day on the bike is a good day.
Unfortunately, the Seahwawks came up short on their dream season. A valiant effort and hopefully a harbinger of good things to come for the team.
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2 comments:
Oh, come on. The gusty days were awesome! I guess they got you a little worse than us but still - nothing like going nearly 50 mph on the flat on the way home from the grocery store courtesy of a Gary Fisher.
I wasn't first this time :(
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