The tail end of the Montrose ride turns the corner at the top of Winston in Duarte.Saturday, 2/18
Pretty straightforward today. We rolled at 7:30, met up with a bunch of other riders from the Pasadena Tri Club at Encanto Park and then made like roadies. We rolled for about 45 mins (+ one flat) and then split into A and B groups. The A group continued on, paceline style with Rich at the front, at a much more tempo pace. No more time for chit chat. Some serious work here...and a lot of fun.
At the 2/3 point, our group of 12 ran into the tail end of the infamous Montrose Ride, a 25-year tradition here in the SoCal area. Lots of folks (at least 80) in the group. We joined up and the no-drop light was off for real. Even though some super nice folks from PTC gave us a heads up on the upcoming tempo, it was a bit rough. I definitely got caught out, thinking I could play Macho Man and pull some of the stragglers back up to the main group. I am not a roadie. :)
And when the folks off the back caught up, it sure didn't help that I took them the wrong way. Oops! Anyway, turns out we were only a few miles away from the start...so that wasn't the end of the world. We regrouped at mission control, dodged some midday showers and had a huge lunch. Huge.
With some coffee to cut off the inevitable midday crash, we hit the Internet for an hour and then regrouped for a PM tempo run. Back to shower and out to dinner, we must have talked for 1.5 hours about training and cycling with power.
Up tomorrow: Possible showers and a Mountain ride. Not looking great...
Patrick
Pretty straightforward today. We rolled at 7:30, met up with a bunch of other riders from the Pasadena Tri Club at Encanto Park and then made like roadies. We rolled for about 45 mins (+ one flat) and then split into A and B groups. The A group continued on, paceline style with Rich at the front, at a much more tempo pace. No more time for chit chat. Some serious work here...and a lot of fun.
At the 2/3 point, our group of 12 ran into the tail end of the infamous Montrose Ride, a 25-year tradition here in the SoCal area. Lots of folks (at least 80) in the group. We joined up and the no-drop light was off for real. Even though some super nice folks from PTC gave us a heads up on the upcoming tempo, it was a bit rough. I definitely got caught out, thinking I could play Macho Man and pull some of the stragglers back up to the main group. I am not a roadie. :)
And when the folks off the back caught up, it sure didn't help that I took them the wrong way. Oops! Anyway, turns out we were only a few miles away from the start...so that wasn't the end of the world. We regrouped at mission control, dodged some midday showers and had a huge lunch. Huge.
With some coffee to cut off the inevitable midday crash, we hit the Internet for an hour and then regrouped for a PM tempo run. Back to shower and out to dinner, we must have talked for 1.5 hours about training and cycling with power.
Up tomorrow: Possible showers and a Mountain ride. Not looking great...
Patrick
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