Sunshine and Leadville

The weather in Victoria has been amazing lately with clear blue skies and warm sunny days! Yesterday evening I had a rest day and I took advantage of another nice day and went down to the ocean to relax and enjoy being outside.

On the racing/training side of things I found out this week that I made the lottery to race Leadville 100 in August. I'm looking forward to it- who wouldn't want to race 100miles at 10,000 + ft? But it should be a good time and Tamara Goeppel and possibly Thomas Tetz have also made it in so it will be nice to see them down there and enjoy the mountain air together while eating our gels and sugary drinks...Plus every finisher under 9hrs receives a handcrafted belt buckle. The goal though is to be under 7 hrs which means averaging 23km/hr...we'll see what happens!

As for now I am off to go ride the mtb

The past few weeks have been busy for me, with work and training and then of course sleeping. At work we needed to finish up a project that had to be done for the end of January which meant a bunch of 10hr days, not my favourite thing to do but the plus side is that for the next couple of weeks I am able to be off work at 1:30 pm and work 6hrs a day! This is a huge benefit for my training since it means more nap time and more sleep at night.

Trainign is going well. I just finished up a 3 week block and a recovery week and monday I start again with the build cycle. Today I also had a test type workout where I was to do a climb 2 times at max effort. The climb being Willis Point rd which took me 10:04 for the first time and 10:14 for the second. I have no idea if this is fast though since I have never heard of a time for it. Regardless I was going hard and had a good ride!
I also bought some new road shoes and pedals yesterday. the Pedals are the Shimano Ultegra Sl, which are pretty sweet and the shoes the Specialized comp. Its been awhile since I bought new road shoes but compared to my mtb shoes they are pretty amazing! I would definitely recomend a set of specialized shoes to anyone looking for new ones...
Tomorrow I have another 3hr mtb ride on the schedule and its of course going to be a good time. don't know the full ride route yet but thats allright!
I'll try and update this thing more now as the season is starting up!

Daniel