So the ride ride begins - we get started a little late - 4:30 am
We are trying to beat the heat and get some miles under us before the sun comes up.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
The Big O - a 120 mile...I meant 129 mile Journey - Part 2
So the ride ride begins - we get started a little late - 4:30 am
We are trying to beat the heat and get some miles under us before the sun comes up.
The Big O - a 120 mile...I meant 129 mile Journey around the big circle - Part 1
All the talk and all the prep work was done. There was nothing left to do now but...the ride. This was a 120 mile ride around lake Okeechobee. I get off work at 5pm on Friday. The car was loaded up. My powders and mixes all carefully measured, weighed and put in their proper places. I start on the 3 hour drive to the big O. I touch base with Black Op Rob (the guy that saved my ass on the last two rides I did with him) and the Naked Indian (the madman/genius that put this thing together)and they are on the way as well. Paintboy and son and already there. They are cozy up in a hotel room that is a couple miles from the trail head. R2 (Rob Roberts) and NI (karlos)are going to scout out a place for us to camp out black opps style. I am jamming bad 80s tunes on the radio somewhere around Sebring anxiously awaiting a call from the fellas to tell me where to meat them so we can make camp. the phone finally rings.
"We can't find a place to camp" NI says. "what do you think"
I am thinking to myself "I think we should get an air conditioned hotel room. I am already scared I am not going to be able to complete this ride" After all NI has already tried this ride once before without success and I know that he is a much more seasoned rider than I am.
"I have no idea" I replied.
"we are going to get some dinner" NI said "meet us at (some mexican resteraunt I can't remember the name of"
So as I pull into Okeechobee I remember something that NI told us before this venture started "don't worry, I speak spanish and jive" and from the looks of this place, that is exactly what we needed. This is not beverly hills folks.
I find NI, R2, PB and PB Jr with empty plates of Mexican food and think to myself "was that a good choice of dinner the night before a long long hot ride?"
"So what did you guys figure out for sleeping?" I asked.
"We couldn't find anything so we are going to sleep on Pb's hotel room floor.
I am 42 years old and am thinking that I can't sleep on the floor. There is no way I am going to be able to ride the next day after that.
We go to Publix to get last minute supplies and then head to the hotel.
There is barely enough room on the floor for two guys so I decide to sleep in my car. It is almost approaching midnight by now and we have to get up at 3am to get ready for a 4am start.
I get locked down in my car and then this shady character rolls up on a home made chopper bicycle and starts staring at me and riding around the parking lot. I get scared and grab my bike and go up to the room.
I decide the floor is better than getting robbed.
The guys all get a good laugh out of my run in with the chopper ghetto fab gentleman.
PB offers up his bed and he gets in bed with PB Jr.
NI and R2 seemed more than willing to hop in bed together and give up dome blankets for me to use on the floor.
I fall asleep sort of - it was not comfortable folks laying on that hard ground for 3 hours.
finally some relief...We get our lights turned on and get ready to start what we thought would only be a 120 mile ride around the big O.
"We can't find a place to camp" NI says. "what do you think"
I am thinking to myself "I think we should get an air conditioned hotel room. I am already scared I am not going to be able to complete this ride" After all NI has already tried this ride once before without success and I know that he is a much more seasoned rider than I am.
"I have no idea" I replied.
"we are going to get some dinner" NI said "meet us at (some mexican resteraunt I can't remember the name of"
So as I pull into Okeechobee I remember something that NI told us before this venture started "don't worry, I speak spanish and jive" and from the looks of this place, that is exactly what we needed. This is not beverly hills folks.
I find NI, R2, PB and PB Jr with empty plates of Mexican food and think to myself "was that a good choice of dinner the night before a long long hot ride?"
"So what did you guys figure out for sleeping?" I asked.
"We couldn't find anything so we are going to sleep on Pb's hotel room floor.
I am 42 years old and am thinking that I can't sleep on the floor. There is no way I am going to be able to ride the next day after that.
We go to Publix to get last minute supplies and then head to the hotel.
There is barely enough room on the floor for two guys so I decide to sleep in my car. It is almost approaching midnight by now and we have to get up at 3am to get ready for a 4am start.
I get locked down in my car and then this shady character rolls up on a home made chopper bicycle and starts staring at me and riding around the parking lot. I get scared and grab my bike and go up to the room.
I decide the floor is better than getting robbed.
The guys all get a good laugh out of my run in with the chopper ghetto fab gentleman.
PB offers up his bed and he gets in bed with PB Jr.
NI and R2 seemed more than willing to hop in bed together and give up dome blankets for me to use on the floor.
I fall asleep sort of - it was not comfortable folks laying on that hard ground for 3 hours.
finally some relief...We get our lights turned on and get ready to start what we thought would only be a 120 mile ride around the big O.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
1 x 20 push interval from last night
2 1/2 hour ride - did 1 20 minute push interval in the middle trying to keep HR in a pre-determined zone
Monday, June 8, 2009
A week in the life
I have had a lot of people asking me what I do each week. It would be easier for me to just graph it out here.
This is my typical week at a glance:
Sunday:
5 mile run before church easy pace - 600 calories
Recovery ride - 30 miles easy pace 18.9 MPH ave. - 1200 calories
Monday:
500 meter swim before work 300 calories
Gym (after work) 10 minute cardio warm up - Chest, Back and Core 10 minutes cardio cool down 10 minute stretching 506 calories
Tuesday:
500 meter swim before work 300 calories
2 Hour interval bike ride - 34.3 miles 1691 calories
Wednesday:
Gym before work 10 minute cardio warm up - Arms and Core 10 minutes cardio cool down 10 minute stretching 506 calories
1 hour Smooth pedal ride - 20 miles - 942 calories
Thursday:
500 meter swim before work 300 calories
2 Hour interval bike ride - 34.3 miles 1691 calories
Friday:
Gym before work 10 minute cardio warm up - Shoulders and Core 10 minutes cardio cool down 10 minute stretching 506 calories
Saturday:
San Antonio ride - 3 hours of hard hills - 57 miles - 3000 calories
next week - I will show you what the nutrition is looking like
This is my typical week at a glance:
Sunday:
5 mile run before church easy pace - 600 calories
Recovery ride - 30 miles easy pace 18.9 MPH ave. - 1200 calories
Monday:
500 meter swim before work 300 calories
Gym (after work) 10 minute cardio warm up - Chest, Back and Core 10 minutes cardio cool down 10 minute stretching 506 calories
Tuesday:
500 meter swim before work 300 calories
2 Hour interval bike ride - 34.3 miles 1691 calories
Wednesday:
Gym before work 10 minute cardio warm up - Arms and Core 10 minutes cardio cool down 10 minute stretching 506 calories
1 hour Smooth pedal ride - 20 miles - 942 calories
Thursday:
500 meter swim before work 300 calories
2 Hour interval bike ride - 34.3 miles 1691 calories
Friday:
Gym before work 10 minute cardio warm up - Shoulders and Core 10 minutes cardio cool down 10 minute stretching 506 calories
Saturday:
San Antonio ride - 3 hours of hard hills - 57 miles - 3000 calories
next week - I will show you what the nutrition is looking like
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
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