It's Almost Here!

Trying to be a bit more steady with the whole blogging thing, maybe the excitement will pick up once racing starts, which is only 5 days away!

The weekend was pretty good, the weather was spectacular.  I can honestly say I didn't do much of anything this weekend, training wise.

Saturday was my follow-up fit with the fantastic Jess at Two Wheel Tango.  She was just returning from a trip to Cali where she was a guest teacher with some Specialized BG Fit training.  I think we have the road bike where it needs to be.  My issue with slight knee pain from last year is gone, and I am ready to start riding.

Sunday was the test day coming off of a rest week.  I guess it would be a two part test, the first to see how the final fit worked, and the second to see if my training has worked.  Recall that I had ridden outside twice (!!) last week, so  the whole training thing is starting with a bang.  I was feeling well rested coming in, and pretty well spent after hammering for 20 minutes.  After looking at my results, I am pretty satisfied compared to the numbers from last year.  I don't mean to brag, but my power output could be classified as fractions of kilowatts... KILOWATTS!   Huge numbers, small pieces of huge numbers.

After the huge effort, I sit down at the computer to see that my friend Cody (Facebook friend, I don't believe we have ever met, but we bonded over the mocking of Iceman Registration Frustration 2012) blathered about me on hit fantastic new site kolo t.c.  I stumbled upon his site completely by accident, I was actually looking for Cholo T.C., but that is a story for later.

Any how, there was a nice write-up on the Barry-Roubaix race that he did, and I supplied some Garmin records for his reference.  Unfortunately, the poor fellow fell under the delusion that I was fast, and even used a reference to Lance Armstrong.  I just want to go on record that that was mostly creative writing, and I do not consider myself a threat to the podium in any way.  Besides, I am not ever sure that is me in the picture, you can barely see the beard!  However, the black of the Einstein Racing kit appears to be very slimming.

So, I digress.  5 days until Barry-Roubaix, my kick-off to the 2012 racing season.  I will be racing, only  having ridden outside only a handful of times, on a CX bike that is much too big, with minimal reconnaissance of the route.  My race goal is to finish before the What-the-Truck guys run out of food.  Tomorrow is another Tuesday Night Ride, and I plan on going a bit stronger, now that I have done it once and didn't die (or puke, or embarrass myself too much).