Rode Wailuna to Royal Summit on Saturday afternoon. Root was a little late, but since it was in the waning part of the day, it was another half-hour for the world to cool down from the noontime burn of late spring. The climb was as heinous as ever – it seems that the more I train, the worse the climb feels. I saw a trail off to the left of the water tank road, possibly leading over to the terrain between Wailuna and Waimano. It was well-used, and there was a concrete marker with 2 initials and “1928” written in relief on it. Continuing up the road and transitioning to the dirt, my legs felt burnt too: I had to drop granny for the climb arond the back of the water tank. I might be training “wrong” or we’re just going harder and faster now. Continue reading ‘Chiropractic ride’
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Took it easy on the knees and quads after Monday. It was windy, so keeping the speed up even on the flats was a bit of a challenge.
Kept encountering the same woman in her Millenia smack dab in the middle of the road at WCC, immobile, with her brake lights and reverse lights on. Apparently she was attempting to learn to parallel park. Certainly she couldn’t.
10.88-miles, 50-minutes, Vavr = 12.8 mph.
It rained all morning on Monday, so I went home. Ckucky called just as I drove out of the parking lot at work and said he and Scat were going to ride around town. I wasn’t trying to be antisocial, but there was no charge in the battery and I had the wrong shoes. I did want to try ot my new shinguards, though…
The Windward side was dry, so I rode over to WCC and did some intervals. 8.05-miles, Vavr = 12, 40-minutes. The pulled shin muscle seems to have healed up as there were no issues with it.
The cleats are holding a lot better after I rotated them last week – I’ll have to back off the pedal jaw spring tension now. I also added one adjustment wedge to each cleat and noticed a lot less muscle strain and more knee and foot comfort. I’ll probably need another wedge or two per side, but two is all I had left.
The rain gods were having a party overnight Sunday and until noon on Monday, so no freeride… besides, everyone was otherwise occupied. Chris had birthing class, Ckucky was on the mainland, JT had a project deadline for some pieces, and Root was going to break his FX. Mitch called me just as I was leaving work. He opted to do some road laps since the ride was called. I went home to ice down the muscle I pulled on Saturday. I hope it will be reasonably usable for secret training on Wednesday…
Rode Wailuna on Saturday. Met Jeff and Sara at 08:30 and it was drizzling. The immediate thought was to call it and go home and sleep, but I didn’t want to waste the Cytomax and Endurox that I already mixed up. Root was running late, so by the time he showed, the rain had ceased and the sun was out and drying things out. The road climb was not too bad considering the secret training ride I did the day before, but once on te dirt, my legs were burning. I had to spin granny-ring on sections that were otherwise mid-ring climbs. Just after the bypass trail junction, Root got the idea that I should climb a lightning-killed tree for a photo. I managed to get up it, but at the expense of pulling the muscle in the front of my shin. This would cause me pain for the next 8-miles.
The descent was muddy in spots, but otherwise perfectly tacky. At the end of the doubletrack, we descended “upper paperbark” to the traverse trail to Newtown, but saw it continue on the other side of the road. The trail was well worn-in, so after descending a little, we decided to further explore it instead of riding back up to the doubletrack to the traverse. The trail was significantly more packed and ridden than when we rode it last year. Connecting to “lower paperbark”, we ended up at the grassy plain. A singletrack in the grass that had been run through by a truck caught my eye, and we went down it to explore further. We found “upper front door loop”, “lower front door loop”, and “back door”. We rode them in that order, finding ourselves at the outer powerline road. Returning to the grassy plain, we descended “Kerwin’s trail” through the stunt valley and out to the street. There were lots if new jumps and a bridge-to-log stunt that wasn’t there last year. The built-up section of the bridge-to-log was rickety, and the telephone pole section it transitioned to wasn’t set well, so it rolled laterally under rider weight. Total ride was 10.08-miles with a trail time of around 3 hours. Vavr was 6mph.
Still don’t believe Jeff and Sara went surfing after all that…
Root posted pictures already; I’ll add mine after I resize and whatnot in PS (don’t want to do it on WinPE)
http://www.studionewmedia.com/gallery/v/Fooligans/04282007
01 May 2007 – photos uploaded (I think I got the order correct)
Alright, spooooky pics from our ride are up:
Short-list crew rode St. Louis last night, only Root, Ckucky, and me. JT was just back from Kauai, and Chris was in birthing class. Rode the cliffside trail, the main line, and 2-jumps down, then went back up to the powerline pole and hit the center trail to the junction with the switchback climb up from Hypodermics. Rode all the way back up to the mainline and rode down the old way. I (nobody?) didn’t feel like riding all the way back up the inner loop to do Dumps, but we ended up still having to suffer on the agave climb. Dirt was dry but grippy – not dusty and loose like last Monday. Don’t have the bike here, so no computer, but if memory serves me, Vmax on the trail was 21.9mph. Root took some pics, so they should be up in the gallery eventually…
On the way back to McB, checked out the sideways tree on University Avenue. Looks like a good spot for photos. Mr. Low-rent who lives in the building next to the tree started tweaking when he saw Ckucky’s HID – probably thought the aliens or HPD was outside.
25 April 2007 – just checked the computer, and it was a measly 4.5-mile ride! Vavr was 8.0mph.