Sunday, June 10, 2012

Road Riding is now cool if you wear SPY glasses

Wow - an awesome advert which describes perfectly what I think about when I'm on the road bike. Really well captured I think.

Also provided the behind the scenes vid which is great too!

The commercial




Behind the scenes


Quiet Times

I decided to take a couple of weeks off the bike to finalise some work stuff and just generally give the legs a good break. I finally got back into it today and felt really good.

My plan is to compete in the Back2Back 6hr Canungra series in July, one race at the beginning the other at the end of the month. I'm also signing up for the Epic and another bikepacking journey sometime later in the year.

My training plan for the next couple of weeks will go something like this:

Monday: Rest Day
Tuesday: Cootha repeats x5 + river loop short(2hr)
Wednesday: Short Z2 interval Road Ride (1hr)
Thursday: Mtb ride mostly AE pace (2hr by myself 2hr night ride with pete = 4hr)
Friday: Mtb ride mostly AE pace (2.5hr)
Saturday: Road ride with some Z3 intervals (2.5hr)
Sunday: Long Road ride or Long Mtb ride at AE pace, some hills (4hr)

If I have to skip a ride this still gives me a decent 12-13 hour week, Sundays and Thursday are always locked in and these are good AE sessions.

I am a complete 'convert' of the whole AE/Base training debate. I have noticed such big gains in my riding and have so much confidence in going the distance now. It's all about hours in the saddle... but making those hours count!

Can't wait for some racing this year :) My goal is to be competitive in B grade and/or top 10 in age group.