So far so good, shoulder is bruised up and some positions are hurting -- like grabbing a bottle to drink and lifting up the hand just point out things or signal is not feeling good and he avoided those moves as possible. As of the ER visit, nothing is broken -- so just get through it and move on.
Kevin's Holiday Harbor Hills ride. Few GABs showed up for the ride in addition to the usual suspects. Py tucked in and took it easy the first good half of the ride -- slowly warming up and getting used to this darn shoulder thing. Amazingly to the end as other got tiered he felt good and took a good move in front.
Back home, time to relax? Nope, hot day. Getting some cleanup and preparations done on his new but old pool -- managing to get a decent sun burn as he had to find out later -- on top of his shoulder pain... shirtless working in the sun for a good time as it was way too hot today and no way to reach up there with sun screen. His team mates suggested to get a massage to loosen up... So he did and went on We morning to CRS. Nice.
Monday, May 28, 2012
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Skipping EBs
After a little misshapen and touch down... on Friday loosing traction in a turn a little recovery and a late ride today as feeling little too stiff after wake up. Warmup, feeling OK, just little sore on upper right... putting a bit tempo in this solo ride.
Getting a cry refill job done at the Camp and easy ride home.
Getting a cry refill job done at the Camp and easy ride home.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Grand Fondo New York
GFNY -- finished today. A different kind of "race", 1st time for Py -- Gran Fondo in New York.
The day before: Early morning ride -- see previous post! Drive to the city to a friend's place. Sign in and package pickup in the middle off Manhattan.
Conveniently Py found base camp at a colleague's apartment on Roosevelt Island -- many thanks again! And went with him to the city for sign in and goodie package pickup. As it happened that the inbound F train due to construction or what ever was not stopping at Roosevelt station they took the scenic was with the all renewed gondola along side the Queensboro bridge. Kind of funny -- gives a little the feeling of a ski resort... and as it looked Py wondered who build it and found a French company did it. The original was build -- who wonders -- by Constructed by Vonroll Ltd of Bern, Switzerland.
Then a little walk in Manhattan and two more F train stops towards Pennstation where the GF Expo was located -- not so much of an Expo so...
Finishing the day with an excellent home made Lasagna to fuel the ride. Wake up 4am and leaving the garage by bike by about 5:10am, just enough light to roll w/o lights. The nice gondola would have been a great option, but was not running that early morning. Riding around via Queens, entering the Queensborobridge bike path and cutting over towards Central Park, proceeding on Riverside Road.
Randomly running into the 1st other GF rider on his way to the start -- "Gunna" originally from Hamburg -- how small this world is!
At the meeting point before entering the bridge staging area randomly finding Gerald... in between 5000 riders. Time for a bathroom visit and to proceed for staging...
Staging -- Py got #241, pretty much up front as of his racing rankings or what ever they used, very good :-) Pretty neat -- the huge multi lane GW bridge at lower level filled up with cyclists! A nice day, a slight morning chill with this light breeze across the bridge causing some riders to tuck down a little as there was about a good 1/2 hour to wait until start at 7am.
The ride: Excellent fun and fast move out of the city with all right of way provided by officers at every corner! Py was way up front for some good time having the lead and lead car/motorcycels in sight. It stringed out a bit on the great narrow Palisades road and a very well behaved GF "team" or group working nicely together formed in front of a hard to say how big, but big by looking back, as Py was up front and never fall back more than to pos 10..15 of that bunch -- fun fun fun... and in virtually no time the 1st 52km were behind in just 1h33, water refill, banana and heading on. These already included a few barely noticeable but timed mini climbs - -just going with the flow of the group. Here are the sections (ignore auto lap triggers at 2 and 5).
1st water stop, skipping a few not needed water stops later.
Hooking up with perfect climbing buddy James 868 on bear climb... Next stop (no water) for a brief rest and enjoying the view from top of Bear Mountain!
Fun fast decent from Bear Mountain, some looping around... now some how lost the bunch -- they must have been still climbing... Part solo finding a rider here and there. But most amazingly -- as the route was folded back into itself with long sections backtracking -- still a endless number of riders coming up the road he long left behind. Getting greeted here and there... thanks :-)
Finish run. Good to have James (868) around pulling off a few more climbs even post all timed climbs! Having fun on the Palisades... and all the way to the finish where they hit a little traffic mess.
Finish and return to Manhattan and city CX to Roosevelt Island.
Including the to/from the ride Py accumulated a total of about 135miles.
Conveniently Py found base camp at a colleague's apartment on Roosevelt Island -- many thanks again! And went with him to the city for sign in and goodie package pickup. As it happened that the inbound F train due to construction or what ever was not stopping at Roosevelt station they took the scenic was with the all renewed gondola along side the Queensboro bridge. Kind of funny -- gives a little the feeling of a ski resort... and as it looked Py wondered who build it and found a French company did it. The original was build -- who wonders -- by Constructed by Vonroll Ltd of Bern, Switzerland.
Then a little walk in Manhattan and two more F train stops towards Pennstation where the GF Expo was located -- not so much of an Expo so...
Randomly running into the 1st other GF rider on his way to the start -- "Gunna" originally from Hamburg -- how small this world is!
At the meeting point before entering the bridge staging area randomly finding Gerald... in between 5000 riders. Time for a bathroom visit and to proceed for staging...
Staging -- Py got #241, pretty much up front as of his racing rankings or what ever they used, very good :-) Pretty neat -- the huge multi lane GW bridge at lower level filled up with cyclists! A nice day, a slight morning chill with this light breeze across the bridge causing some riders to tuck down a little as there was about a good 1/2 hour to wait until start at 7am.
The ride: Excellent fun and fast move out of the city with all right of way provided by officers at every corner! Py was way up front for some good time having the lead and lead car/motorcycels in sight. It stringed out a bit on the great narrow Palisades road and a very well behaved GF "team" or group working nicely together formed in front of a hard to say how big, but big by looking back, as Py was up front and never fall back more than to pos 10..15 of that bunch -- fun fun fun... and in virtually no time the 1st 52km were behind in just 1h33, water refill, banana and heading on. These already included a few barely noticeable but timed mini climbs - -just going with the flow of the group. Here are the sections (ignore auto lap triggers at 2 and 5).
Interval Name
|
Duration
|
Distance (km)
|
Work (kJ)
|
Average Power (watts)
|
xPower (watts)
|
Max Power (watts)
|
Average Heart Rate (bpm)
|
95% Heartrate (bpm)
|
Average Cadence (rpm)
|
Average Speed (kph)
|
1
|
1:33:29
|
52.8
|
1054
|
188
|
215
|
691
|
145
|
166
|
90
|
33.9
|
2
|
01:41
|
0.1
|
1
|
29
|
11
|
136
|
121
|
127
|
51
|
8.0
|
3
|
58:26
|
22.6
|
709
|
217
|
240
|
522
|
157
|
177
|
95
|
24.9
|
4
|
1:02:22
|
29.4
|
592
|
158
|
190
|
499
|
146
|
165
|
89
|
28.3
|
5
|
06:28
|
0.1
|
4
|
66
|
39
|
166
|
127
|
131
|
47
|
7.7
|
6
|
1:09:13
|
33.3
|
643
|
155
|
176
|
611
|
143
|
162
|
89
|
28.8
|
7
|
1:22:12
|
41.5
|
876
|
180
|
202
|
782
|
146
|
163
|
93
|
30.6
|
Fun fast decent from Bear Mountain, some looping around... now some how lost the bunch -- they must have been still climbing... Part solo finding a rider here and there. But most amazingly -- as the route was folded back into itself with long sections backtracking -- still a endless number of riders coming up the road he long left behind. Getting greeted here and there... thanks :-)
Finish run. Good to have James (868) around pulling off a few more climbs even post all timed climbs! Having fun on the Palisades... and all the way to the finish where they hit a little traffic mess.
Finish and return to Manhattan and city CX to Roosevelt Island.
Including the to/from the ride Py accumulated a total of about 135miles.
Great new ride experience -- thanks to all who made it happen!
Saturday, May 19, 2012
One more Carl Hart ride
One more Carl Hard ride before the GFNY.
Taking it easy, but good pace in big group.
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Early Birds Flying North
Just one more good birds ride -- fast fun moving on old North route! Good strong group generating a great pace almost all the way. And separating riders to the end... + nice solo ride home.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Carl Hart Ride
Py busy planning for my new house warming party weekend, so rehab on this weekend... Just time for a quick early morning ride with the Carl Hart early morning group. Getting a little late with last minute bike tune up/lube -- still the Battenkilled dusty bike... Lenny waiting and then TTing to the start right on time.
fun ride...
And then preparing for Py's new cycling central home warming + post birthday party -- his bike got a new home :-)
Thanks to all for joining!
fun ride...
And then preparing for Py's new cycling central home warming + post birthday party -- his bike got a new home :-)
Thanks to all for joining!
Sunday, May 06, 2012
Early Birds flying low on South today
After a rainy week it's getting nice again today. Heading to the Birds ride once a again. Start back to 7:30 now. Nice move out East, fast to and over the bridge, little puddle on Dune Rd, some good fun job with GAB Mike on Red Creek...
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