superbowl

4th Annual Superbowl Sunday Emerald Necklace Epic
Scheduled for Superbowl Sunday 2/1/09. Plan is to leave from my house (by John Carroll) at around 8am. Fenders and warm attire are recommended. Afterwards stick around for some beer and chili. All are welcome. Don't come if your soft.

This was stolen from Brett Davis. The weather looks doable at this point. Here is the rest of the route.
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Ride

Mountain Bike ride Sunday @ Mohican State Park at High Noon. 2-4 hours endurance.

Base = Patience

Well, I am back. Anyway the beach was good and now its 5 degrees here. Quite the shock to the system. I thought that I would comment on Base training, since most people are itching to get started for next season. I read a great article that Joe Friel wrote on this blog. Here is a paragraph and you can read the rest on his blog.

"Patience is the key to success in endurance sport. I’ve also written about that idea many times. One must be patient with training. When passed by a group of Christmas Stars on the road now you’ve got to have the patience to hold back and stick with your planned base fitness training. It helps to have a coach, someone who will hold you accountable for what you do in workouts. I seldom have to remind the athletes I train that they need to stick with the plan while avoiding Christmas Star group rides. Down deep we each understand the benefit of building deep levels of fitness in these three key abilities before starting to do the high intensity stuff later on. We realize that if we are patient now and just grind out the miles as planned, the reward later on will be much greater."

Embrace the weather!

http://www2.trainingbible.com/joesblog/blog.html

MIA

Well, I haven't been blogging or riding in about a month, needed the mental break. Been planing for next season and plan on changing it up a bit. I'll write about that soon. But first we have one more cx race left to attend to and then the beach is calling my name. I was looking back on my races this season and it was up there for volume with this copley race I will be around 50. To put this in perceptive Rudy did around 70! I think for his career he is around 2500 races, ponder that for a while when you think you "race your bike". With that thought I think I will go ride.

CX

Well cross is full swing now and its awesome! On the coaching front everyone is doing great. Russ finally got a real cross bike! We all be in trouble in a few weeks. Kid gettin' fast. Cameron is getting faster every week. Bill is going good too. The last part of the season suits his riding style.

Cross practice works! Greg from stark won the b race at Orville. It was his first race but he has been going to cx practice. Robert also has dominated after going to cx practice. Come out and play this Thursday.