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Bowl, 5/13 edition.

Today I was dead-set on making sure I didn't get dropped, to continue my 'winning streak' at all costs. After all, now that I can look at data from my rides after the fact, I have to make sure that there isn't anything embarrassing in there. Otherwise, it will be there nagging me forever, that I failed at that one thing on that horrible day. My life will be ruined, and my fragile ego will shatter and I will cry.

OK, not really, but as I said earlier, I had been worried that something might have been really wrong with my riding. Now that I've got two victories (a clean completion is a victory in my book) under my belt, its a lot less worrying.

On to today's ride:
I worked a little later than I had planned, and was worried that I would be stuck in traffic and miss the bowl entirely. Luckily, I had my bike and clothes (and shoes this time) in the car, so I headed strait there, and discovered that I had plenty of time. Occasionally, I plan ahead, and sometimes it really pays off. Today was one of those days. I got in one warm up lap, and then we were off.

I heard there were some pros in the pack, and so from the start I hid out in the back, figuring that it would be really fast and probably I would get nervous. It turns out, I was dead wrong. We had a wonderfully mellow first lap - we accelerated up to speed so smoothly and gradually that it was like waking up from a nap. The rest of the ride was pretty typical, and being in the back I spent more time dealing with the squirrely folks than I'd like, but all in all it was good. I even just made it onto the back of the sprint group when they took off, and kept with them up to the line. Hit 28 on the sprint, which I'm pretty happy with. Have a look here:

Thu, 5/13 Rose Bowl Data

Side note: I didn't stop the GPS properly after playing with it yesterday on the drive home, and so I had this huge addition to the ride. I was all peeved, but then realized that the lap counter had incremented when the ride began, and separated the drive from the ride. And once i'd put it on the computer, I could delete the lap 0 and presto! I had my ride data. Now, I just need to figure out how to move laps into new activities...

Tonight at the Rose Bowl

Tuesday. The Bowl.

I have to admit that I was really nervous about the bowl ride today, for the following reasons:
1. I have been missing a bowl ride a week for the last 2 (or is it 3?) weeks, due to staying late at work.
2. My performance at the rides i've been making has been less than stellar, and i'm not sure why.
3. I didn't feel good for a lot of the day today at work.

Number two is the scary one. It haunts me.

I wonder: Is missing one out of five rides that big of a deal? Is the heat doing me in? Is it that i haven't been eating enough/right? Sleeping? Water? Stress from running late?

Well, today I am glad to report that my worries are unfounded. I stayed in the main pack for the whole ride without getting dropped!

Here is the data from the ride. The actual ride starts at about 0:17 Minutes and ends at 1:33. I wonder if they'res a way to trim the data...

Next task - Set up the data fields to actually be useful!

Rose Bowl by jeffturney at Garmin Connect - Details

Amgen TOC Stage 8 preview (2 laps) by jeffturney at Garmin Connect - Details

Pasadena to the Brentwood via Mulholland

I finally convinced alan to come out and re-do our Mulholland ride from last summer. here is a rough approximation of the route (stolen from last summer, because I'm too lazy to re-map it properly):

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Its a nice ride on a sunday morning, mainly because we get to ride through all the richie-rich neighborhoods without having to worry about being run over by some idiot in a Porsche or Escalade. Last year, the trip back through East LA was killer - we were coming through around noon, and the huge expanses of concrete that define East LA had heated up and turned into tire-melting lava flows. Today, however, the cooler weather meant that the ride stayed pleasant all the way back to Pasadena.

The Lesson of the weekend? Cycling Nirvana is a place where the temp stays between 40 and 80 degrees year round, with big mountains and lots of green. If you know of such a place, tell me, and i'll move there tommorrow.

Saturday: Ojai's Never-Ending Climb

Yesterday Bob, Gloria, Leslie, Peter and I decided to do a 'century prep' ride to help everyone make sure that they were ready for the Mulholland Century next weekend. The prep ride was simple- ride 40 miles up highway 33 from Ojai, and then turn around and come home. It was a spectacular ride, and as we climbed and got away from the ocean we watched the ecosystem change from coastal, to high mountain, and finally to semi-arid valley. It was the perfect time of year to do the ride; my bike computer registered low 50's near the summit, and mid 60's down in Ojai proper. if it was warmer we'd have burned up in the sun, and in the winter we'd have been fighting snow at elevation.

One thing to note: As we were coming down in the afternoon, the wind shifted, and we had a pretty severe headwind through all but the last 20 miles (when it was so steep that we didn't notice). As always, never forget: A headwind now doesn't guarantee a tailwind later!

Due to some confusion about eating after the ride, Gloria and I rode an extra few miles around Ojai, leading us to end the day with 90 miles and ~8,000 feet of climbing. It was a good ride, I look forward to doing it again, maybe in the fall.


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In hindsight, I count 3 bad ideas here.

Yesterday was a groundbreaking day - I got my first club kit (Pasadena Athletic Association, one of the largest teams in the area), and had an adventurous afternoon riding.

See, I was so excited to get out and show off the new kit (Bad Idea - Murphy's Law) that i jumped on the bike first thing, and ended up at the rose bowl an hour early. I gave Alan a call (because, like me, he works a 7-3 schedule and might be around.) He said I should go do our usual hill ride as a warm up "except for Emerald Isle." He cautioned me to take it easy, and I said OK, and immediately forgot the advice, blowing through the warm up in a half-hour. (Bad Idea)

When the bowl did start, it was back to being the hairy-scary ride that I have nightmares about. I saw two near misses in the first lap, and I was jumpy for the whole rest of the ride - as was the pack. Rules of etiquette and safety seemed to have gone out the window, and I was *sure* there would be a nasty crash. I spent a good bit of the ride in the wind where it was safer, and found myself in no-mans-land between a breakaway and the peloton. (Bad Idea) Twice. That never happened before.

Anyway, back to the point: we did 9? laps, and I fell off at the beginning of the final uphill / start of the sprint. The sprint is the scariest part of the entire ride, and I was thoroughly worn down both from the 'warm up' and from being out in the wind so much. Nobody crashed, to my surprise, and we all headed home in safety.

I blame Murphy and his law for the drop- If I hadn't been wearing a new kit, I wouldn't have done the hills for a warm up, or spent so much time in the wind, and I'd have got through OK. However, I built up a nice little chunk of character today.