psychling
Well-Known Member
After several depressing days of indoor training and a few shocking days of absolutely lethal outdoor training in the freezing, windy, icy, twisting mountain roads I figure out a real world training prospect for the cold months.
Drive down to a lower elevation and train.
The snow line here is about 5,000 feet. I slipped down to 4,000 feet today and trained on rolling and challenging upgrades of 6% for a few 6 mile sets. It was windy, cold and wet. But manageable due to the absence of crazy twisting descents and icy roads. It was also in the mid-40's.
Descending the 6 mile 6% patch of road, it was all I could do to keep the speed under 40 mph on the Silvio.
Dressing for the wind and wet requires `shell' clothes and some thin wool jerseys. Made all the difference.
http://psychling1.blogspot.com/
More tomorrow.
Drive down to a lower elevation and train.
The snow line here is about 5,000 feet. I slipped down to 4,000 feet today and trained on rolling and challenging upgrades of 6% for a few 6 mile sets. It was windy, cold and wet. But manageable due to the absence of crazy twisting descents and icy roads. It was also in the mid-40's.
Descending the 6 mile 6% patch of road, it was all I could do to keep the speed under 40 mph on the Silvio.
Dressing for the wind and wet requires `shell' clothes and some thin wool jerseys. Made all the difference.
http://psychling1.blogspot.com/
More tomorrow.
