The weather is slowly turning better, except it seems on the days I plan on a ride. Layers and underarmor again!
And bronchitis!! UGH I hate colds!!
It really hard to ride when you fight for that extra breath. Ok, I am a former smoker, the former aspect a recently added adjective. That said its easy to recognize where my concerns for our ride comes. My legs can handle the lactic burn, the hills will hurt no doubt but by June the muscles will be ready. If there is one concern that will be with me until I coast down the last hill and make that turn back into the Horizon I am going to worry about my lungs.
I got to watch some of the Tour of California yesterday. I watched the riders struggle up Sierra Rd and again over Peterson. I have driven the 580 and 205 and I know those hills! They are formidable, and to watch the best riders in the world struggle along at 12-14 mph I could feel thier burn. Again I felt MY Lungs ache, and I ride at Sea Level! I listened to the commentary as the talked about the difficulty of today's leg south through the Sierra Nevada above 2000 ft. Tahoe is at 6200 and Spooner Junction climbs to more than 7000. I do hope I cant see them breathing hard!
Tomorrow is supposed to be blustery. We don't have very big hills here so I will point my front wheel into the wind. As any cyclist knows wind is the hill that Never Ends, and as I train for Tahoe its going to be my mountain simulator.
Once again I want to say thank you to all my supporters. No matter how hard my training is, no matter how thin the air is or how much my chest aches. No matter how difficult the headwinds, I have one secret weapon in my bag, I have YOU!
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