because i'm in a thesis writers block...

guh... what happened... we did this last week?

i liked this ride a LOT. i'm a big hill climber, that could be why. we also came upon our most formidable hill yet. i marked it with the hors category marker.

oh. and i mapped it.

so yeah, 20% grade, that sucked. keeg and i just started to power up it and by the time we got most of the way up (about where the HC marker is) we were sucking air so bad that we had to stop. alex got really pissed off at us about that hill (i still secretly like it).

further on the route there's an area on Banner Rd. that is supposed to be fairly flat, but as keeg and i came up on it the slope kept getting steeper. i was on my brakes the whole time maxing out at 38mph because i didn't want to hit keeg if he spilled going down it, but going up the other side i think it's well established that we will be able to handle the rolling hills of chilly hilly, as long as we choose our pace correctly.

i've been doing intervals on my trainer at the ends of my bi-weekly workouts, which is supposed to lead to something about better VO2... something... i think what it leads me to do more though is sprint down hills as i set my new max speed of 42mph.

the ride concluded with a few short climbs, mad props to dick for passing up keegan on the last climbs and coming in second (something i didn't really expect, dick was a good length back in the last 5 miles). mad props also to alex for doing this ride on his first ride since stp last year, my condolences to his ass, knees and legs.

normal props to keeg.