Category: Training
Mount Rose highway: One of my favourite long rides…
This 4hr ride starts in Reno at 1300m altitude, climbs straight up to 2700m (takes me about 1h40 at 130 heart rate) and descends straight down to Incline Village, on the shores of Lake Tahoe. (1800m)
Fill up the bottles, (penalty points awarded for time spent off the bike) and start climbing back over. About 50minutes at 130HR. Then scream down the fun side and try to keep up with cars through the many curves on the way down.
I do this ride on my own. I get a lot of thinking and soul searching done. I think about racing, training and life. But mostly about racing. Then at times I’ll switch off and numb my brain with Battery 9’s “Oom Kosie” and others…
Libby Burrell. Coach extraordinaire.
I just added my first page! All by myself. Of course it is about my coach Libby Burrell. It is not finished yet, but go to”pages” click, and take a peek.
The form is good. Quality run on the beach.
On the 7 hr drive back to Stellenbosch after Ironman South Africa, we stopped at Klein Brak river mouth so I could do my last quality run before XTERRA South Africa this weekend. The sun was setting, the sea was thundering unhappily, and Amber sat on the beach, resting her Ironman legs and poking at blisters.
Soul riding
One of the many great things I got to do while in PE for Ironman was exploring the South Africa East coast by mountain bike. Actually it was training, (1h30 ride with 8x20second sprints) but I played with the location a bit and what came out was this amazing ride from Schoenmaakerskop to Sardinia Bay.
These kind of training sessions don’t come very often, but they provide me with the soul food I need for a long season’s racing, training, traveling and getting visas.
This is why I love my job…
Specialized Team Camp- Stellenbosch
My 1st cyclocross ride. Stellenbosch, Idas Valley dam, Specialized Tricross S works. Like the rainbow jersey?
Benno (Specialized Team Mechanic) putting my new Specialized Tricross together. http://www my company.specialized.com/bc/SBCBkModel.jsp?sid=08Tricross
Ryan, the other bike genius, putting my Specialized Stumpjumper 29er together.
Benno proudly modeling the new ladies Specialized Team kit
