Kissena Velodrome

Went with Karl to the Kissena Velodrome "twilight series". Borrowed a bike. Had fun:

Some thing new and fun -- first time ever on a Fixie, figured it out in a few laps -- then a set of three super short races...

Seams a great & fun way to work on the sprinting ability.

Finish with a great sun set at dusk.

Early Birds North again - a new bird

Nothing special today. Usual ride North Route. Not particular flying and jumping out of every corner as last time -- what almost felt like a stretched out Crit at some turn towards Dune Rd last week. But a good ride today for sure. A new face or bird (some time?). Fitting in fine.

Rocky Point / RCA Park loop

Still too tiered Saturday early morning at 5am and in need of a bit more recovery & sleep to make it to the Bellport ride -- went back to bed. Enjoying late breakfast at gorgeous weather on his porch. Getting done some house work.... already a bit thinking about the option for a late MTB ride, thinking about that since long already.

So the call for Gregg just came right -- he must have had a 3rd sense about that -- asking for a after noon MTB ride.

Checking up the old Hummer like Fully, pumping up the fat tiers just a bit -- about almost 5 times less pressure than the tubulars are getting!

Rolling out of the house, always kind of nice this so smooth all bumps absorbing bike, but it needs some push to get up and to speed. The old rebuild shock still works great and does it's work preventing any whip while pedaling up hill -- but still, not a hard tail! However, just fun going for the rough stuff...

... a few snaps of a first test video going off road.

Friday Night Kreb Race - Circuit

Friday October the 13th. A beautiful day and evening -- finally the high humidity and heat mover out for a release. Looking good for one more Kreb Cycle Friday Night race.

Today: Kids race first, then regular circuit 20 laps to go.

A race -- possibly the fastest (for Py so far) -- plus it happened to be that Py got just off the start into a 4-rider break away, no one of us was first seriously thinking that this could stick for a while, but they (George, Jake (Kissena) [was it you?] and one more Py does not know) were keeping a good pace in a constant good team efford (about as good as it can be in a team time trial). But they knew, they would have 20 full laps to go...... a long way.
However, as three more GABs were in the main field (and two in this break, George, Py) they tried to control the field behind and pace them a bit down.
Py heard (he would love to get the GPS data for a rider in the main field, to calculate it) they had up to 20 seconds on them. With 12 laps top go they were still ahead, but a 2nd break formed and closed up.

This was good and bad the same time -- good, more time to recover, but the bunch (not sure how many they have been then) -- got kind of disorganized as several of the others seamed just to sneak on and badly disrupted and efficient rotation. This chaos bunch in front was now a big break, moving still fast, but wasting affords and less smooth. Py thinks also a few dropped back again. However, he had the feeling this needed more work than before for, at least it felt like.

And with 5 laps to go -- the rest of the field caught up. As Py got it, Jeff got sick of the bunch behind pacing slow and decided to pull in a long big move on his own the whole field in one single file pacing back up to the break.

At that point Py some how lost all motivation and just was sitting in to the end of the race.

The whole thing was fast -- see here for lap data and averages (25.2mph over all):
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/44400260

Early Birds South - racing Dune road...

Sunday, not sure what to expect and how it would work out after all that last days racing and riding. But seamed the recovery, good food and some nap time on Saturday did the trick :-)

Even not really awake from the very beginning, Py felt better and found some energy reserves to the end of the ride to play and have fun. Also on Dune road Py had a good time flying fast...

Here a few snap shots shortly after leaving from the Seven-Eleven stop.

Good fast finish, easy ride home of usual route w Owen today.

Post ride notes:

Did you even noticed, I missed to format the initial letter to this post right. (fixed)

Do not know how I did this today -- after putting in (no posted, missed to write about it), so I do it now: a 22:08 3.5 mile run race on Tuesday w/o any good (>24h) recovery from previous racing and riding:

ESG: 22.-25th of July, easy ride 27th, 28th 71km commute and We nite hill ride training, 30th Fri Night Kreb Race, 31st Rp2IPBP, 1st EBs-N (kind of fast), 2nd 10k run (all pre race running I did on several month), 3rd 3.5mi run race, (you know how stairs are feeling after such unprepared stupidity), 4th recovery cyclo commute, 5th little hill ride at sun set, 6th Friday night TT (no wonder about the slowness), 7th a decent 2-rider RP2IPBP and this deadly EBsS pace today -- I was kind off part of pushing it... well -- a good nap felt so good.

Must be a good stage race training.

RP2IPBP nice and steady

Just Rick & Py today, John joined at the beach for his return. Good steady shared efforts. A very nice day again!

Friday Night Kreb Race - ITT

This Friday: Individual Time Trial. Not that Py was really ready again to go fast, however, a good training session. And a bunch of funny and aero looking riders.

EBs N

Birds again. Good moving, nice team work :-)

Birds route average: 86km @ 38.5 km/h.