What a great way to bring in the New Year! A great snow mtb ride, a 5 mile fun run and a dip in 33 degree ocean.
Lets start with the ride…
Finally a little video of the dip..
Pretty good week of training so far this week! Last night was a good Computrainer workout, and today a treadmill run. The fun will be tomorrow!!
I will be meeting Coach Al early for another snow mtb ride at Bluff Point. He will be sporting studded tires, not sure if I will get mine together or not… Sas will try out her new snowshoes 🙂
Next we will head over to Mystic for the annual run and dip… a fun 5 mile run with plenty of New Years cheer finished off with a dip in the ocean at Groton Long Point…
I cannot think of a better way to start the new year!!!! Stay tuned for pic’s and video from the days events!!
This was on the last leg of the ride, right out by the ocean (and wind!).
Great Sunset!!
Some footage I shot yesterday on the MTB ride with Coach Al. Notice how hard I am breathing and how Coach is just dancing on the pedals :-)… Enjoy!
For those of you that have not ridden a mountain bike in the snow, don’t! 🙂 Just kidding… it can be a lot of fun and work!!!
Coach Al and I got out today for a last min ride down at Bluff. This past Sunday we got our first real snow storm of the winter. Up by me we got over 10″ of the nice white stuff, but down on the shore it was more like 6″ at best. We decided to go with the 6″. With winds up around 60 mph and a windchill of below zero it would be an epic ride for sure!
I have ridden a bit in snow (a few years ago) but this was going to be Coach’s frist ride. We bundled up and headed off. We quickly realized that the soft power we had up north was much more packed down on the wind blown shore. This made for some very slow going!!
I was riding my 29er single speed and Al was on his 26er geared bike. The larger tires seemed to help once I got going and could maintain my momentum. However unable to shift to an ez gear made any uphill grade a “hike a bike”. I think riding up Mt Washington was an easier ride :-o!
Overall it was a great ride and we saw a great sunset to boot!
I will post some video later….
I had the day off today and was feeling better so Coach Al and I got out for a fun Christmas Eve Ride. Humbling to say the least!! Coach has been riding every chance he gets and has really built up some fitness! I have been trying to get over my cold and have missed a lot of training. Needless to say he really kicked my butt!! I did get in 2 solid hours before the wheels came off. Coach finished off with 3!!
Frist run in about a month yesterday. EZ run on the rail trail, felt good to get back at it!!
Nice 2 hour ride with Coach Al!
Well not much training going on…. I have my first cold of the winter season… so far this has been over a week. I have gotten in a few mtb rides but have paid for them later! Lots of Vitamin C and some rest and hopefully I can get back at it…
SE-R, SR20VVL, centrifugal supercharger, PAR dog-engagement tranny, 15 x 9 wheels with 275/35-15 Hoosiers, lots of downforce-inducing aero bits. 😀 😀