87 miles in 5 days

20 with Gary Wednesday
16.5 with Mandy Saturday
14.5 on spin bike Tuesday because it was smokey and cold
36 miles to work and back on mountain bike Tuesday-Friday
It was windy on the rides to work. I ache.

35 miles, meh! 14.1mph

went out for a ride with a friend. Riding slow wasn't a problem, but we stopped and talked for about a half hour and sort of lost interest.

partial Epic Ride

Week of 3/11: 120 min aerobic.

walked to buss on Friday, ride home
drove to /from on Monday
road to/from on Tuesday, Wednesday?
road to on Thursday, chauffeured home late.

1 walk, 5 ride: 120 min.

64.6 miles, 4:34, @137+bpm, 14.1 mph,

ride time was 4 1/2 hours, time start o finish was 5 1/2. I had a flat, stopped for lunch at chick fil a....the lemonade was too tart to drink. good potato waffle fries though.

Carmichael's Training book: The Time-Crunched Cyclist

This is a book about how really high-intensity work outs can get you ready for a racing season in only 6 hours per week. The basic argument is that while high-intensity workouts will improve your high-intensity ability, it will also help your endurance. Carmichael puts a caveat on rides longer than 3 hours. More interestingly, he puts a caveat on riding the program for more than 12 weeks. Apparently you train so hard that after 12 weeks of it, a kind of long-term fatigue will set in and really hold you back. He says an endurance training program that involves at least 10 hours a week will better prepare the rider for endurance riding and won't involve as hard a long-term bonk as this program. It's almost scared me into riding the 12 hours/week instead of following this program.

Has anyone used this program?

12 miles, 49 min. 14.7 mph

...road with friends before my niece's birthday party.

BONK: 19.7 miles, 1:26, 13.8 mph 129 bpm

How many things did I do wrong:
- didn't eat a big meal the night before that I had been doing on accident..Hey it's Friday night. Time for a plate of sweet potato fries!
- played with friends' Kinect box and got some exercise, burning what little calories I'd eaten.
- drank a cup of coffee before the ride
- ...and the killer, took a 5-hour energy because I was sleepy. I think the killer here is the
extra cup of coffe.
- drinking 3 ounces of gatorade/hammer gel mix (diluted for a water bottle) may not have helped either.

5 miles into the ride I could feel my blood sugar drop. Up a hill a few miles later I had no energy.
Snarfing some Sharkies helped avert disaster, but can't make up for 1000 calories of missing glycogen.