Hey Everyone!
Friday through Monday was awfully good for me and I sure hope it was great for all of you as well.
Friday started off with a nice walk to Milagro's Coffee shop with Resie and Aspen for some coffee and breakfast. I got some good news from self proclaimed "micro-sponsor" Bill Dark that he loved seeing me race and meeting Aspen and wanted to help us out a little bit. Which our family needed TREMENDOUSLY! Then later that day I did a little over 42 miles with Sean and tri newbie Garrett. It was a nice day out and a great ride.
Saturday I awoke to news that Josh wanted to ride from Alamosa to the top of La Veta Pass. This would take us from 7544 feet alt. to 9413 feet in 45.5 miles. 90 % of the climbing would come in the latter 20 miles as well. I did not jump at the chance to ride with Dr. Merrick as he LOVES to hammer from the get go, but it didn't take much convincing as my motivation for training on the bike is at an all-time high as of late. We had the wind at our backs and averaged a little over 20 mph for the first 25 miles to Fort Garland where we topped off water bottles and Sean tried to get himself ready for the climbing to come. He hung on gamely as Josh and I took turns pulling up the Mountain. Sean finally popped about a mile or 2 from the summit and Josh and I raced to the top. I snuck by him on the last rise and finished only about a second or two in front of him. The ride back down the mountain was pretty wicked as we were straight into a head wind of about 30 mph and still riding at the same 30 mph. Poor Josh took most of the brunt on the way down to Fort Garland where we ate snickers bars and reloaded for a long, windy ride home. It took a few miles, but Sean dropped off the back and Josh and I pushed on trying to keep our 20 mph avg. going. We hit 80 miles in 3:59 (which made me awfully happy) and sat up for an easy stretch. At 83 miles we pulled off for more water for Josh and Resie picked me up as she had a Soccer game in Pueblo (a 2 hour drive from Alamosa). I gave the last of my gatorade to Josh for the lonely ride back to town, through my bike in the trunk and pulled onto the road just in time to see Sean. We gave him whatever food and water we had left and he took off to home some 10 min. back of Josh. The rest of the day and evening saw me taking in several thousand calories and the ASC Lady Grizzlies losing to CSU-Pueblo 2-1. Resie played a great game though!!
Sunday was supposed to be a 90 min. run for Josh and I, but it turned into a 50 min. run and a couple vs. couple tennis match with hot dogs and ice cream afterwards. An amazing Sunday that was very chill and relaxing.
Yesterday was another 2 hours on the trainer for me as it was very windy outside, but another great family/roommate day where we invited the new game Phase Dias which is the card game Phase 10 played with an entire deck of Uno cards thrown in. Tons of fun once we figured out the rules!
Now for a swim here in about half an hour then off to Fort Garland with Dr. Merrick for about 10-11 miles of hill running at 8500-9000 ft. altitude. That's 2500-2750 meters for you Euros out there! :)
Well, hasta later!!!
-Yorek
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