Cycle the Sunshine Coast, BC: When your peaking, its time to enjoy riding....

2010 to 2011 Blog Posts - Virtual Tours

Over the past two years of having this Blog and fueled by my personal passion for cycling, I have posted blogs and have let people know where to ride on Sunshine Coast. Certainly the two elements has blurred a bit.

My blog has become many things including my training diary, my vessel to share my experiences with the world, promote the Sunshine Coast and to share in other cycling stuff that I find personally interesting.

My Homepage has my posts over the 2010 - 2012 years. When training for certain events, you get bored of analyzing data every which way, so in 2010 I started a virtual tour across Canada with the my cumulative training distance over the years and posted on Google Maps. It started out innocently enough with a question pondering if I virtually rode across Canada where would I be and what towns would I visit. The journey has been an interesting one and we live in a very vast and diverse country. Read on....

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

When your peaking, its time to enjoy riding....

Its July 19th and for the last week I've been feeling awesome when I ride. Awesome means hills are molehills, power and recovery is always available and you feel that you have tons of energy.

It wasn't more than a month ago that I was complaining about just the opposite effects - no energy, burning legs walking up stairs and not motivated. In June I wrote in my diary "feeling crappy - need to rest" and the last June entry "I'm getting slower FML!" on a training loop that use to measure my performance. I was thinking what the helI do i need to do to get faster???? It was like i was slamming the course but when i reviewed the data , i was slower. Urggggg! The solution was that i rested fofor about two weeks by reducing my mileage and effort, putting on easy miles. Then on July 1, I slammed 190km; the next weekend, 120km and now the granfondo at 115km. I rode the the course where I was slower in June, to a new personal best and I thought that I wasn't working hard enough or at all. North road hill was literally a mole hill and I could feel the bike surge forward with every pedal stroke. I have an all effort training loop to do this week to measure my peak for the year.

Experience has shown me that this level is not sustainable for long, but I can build a second peak about 2 months later. A week or so from now, I'll be complaining once more then I'll rest again and start slamming miles in before my other goal on October - Levi's King Ranch Granfondo!