A Good Week of Training

So this past week turned into a pretty good week of training (luckily!). After the crazy hecticness of work and getting all our equipment out the door for the Giro (ok not quite done yet - 2 more sets to go later this week, but I feel OK for them) I was able to recover my sleeping pattern, get back on a semblance of a diet, and put in a couple of hard (if short) efforts.

Monday I also managed to finish my new rig. I'll get some photo's posted when I find my camera (haven't seen that in a while - where the heck is it??!!!). It's a Madone 5.9 with mostly Dura-Ace 10-spd and an EPIC handlebar....but more to come on that in a later blog :o)

So I took it for a test ride on Monday and since all seemed well I figured I'd bring it out for the Tuesday jam session - and I'm glad I did! I guess I had some built up energy or something, because I'd already ridden about 2 hours when I went to the jam and all I wanted to do was attack! My legs felt pretty good (still improving anyway), so I spend more than my fair share of time at the front, and even attacked on all the climbs. I also tried a solo effort in a headwind section and was able to stay away from the bunch for quite a while - that felt good.

Then coming into the last hill I launched a solo attack about 2km from the base of the climb. I was able to stay away for the entire climb, and I even had several riders catch me at certain points only to drop off my wheel. In the end I didn't hear these 2 riders coming and they were able to scoot by me right at the town sign - shit!

Then on Wednesday I went out again and thought I'd just sit in the pack, but nope - I still had some good juice. So I was attacking every hill and sprinting for every town sign, in addition to some good pulls at the front.

Now it's Saturday and, fingers crossed, I'll be racing today and tomorrow. Still a little up in the air about today - I was going to go to Belgium for a race in the hills around Liege, but the cycling union website had some incorrect info (it said the race was open but it's actually closed as it's the district championships!). So now I'm scrambling to find another race to do today......

Keep the rubber side down!