The PA Blue Mountain 200k: Back to Brevets At Last

When my local cycling friend Roy and I set out from Milford, N.J. on the PA Blue Mountain 200k yesterday morning at 7 a.m., I had a lot of hopes and a lot of questions.  I hoped that riding only 324 miles in three months in 2012 would not cause my legs to desert me […]

Relearning How To Be Intense

This morning I tried a 20-minute threshold workout on the spinner at the gym.  I started the winter doing these once or twice a week and in early February set new indoor wattage highs for 20 minutes (258w) and an hour (233w).  Then I got bronchitis and I hadn’t tried to do threshold work in […]

The First Steps Back

When I last posted on February 2, 2012, I had just that day broken a new record by averaging 258 watts on the spinner for 20 minutes (off the spinner my record is 289).  A few days later, I reached a record 233 watts for an hour on the spinner (off the record is still […]