Ride 12/28

Ride was good but shorter than I planned. Road with Graham who rides for CTS U23 team. Was on call for the ambo so needed to stay within 10 min of station. I road up to Jerome twice before I was called in to cover station. First time was a warm up graham started the pace between 11-12, I quickly said I need to warm up first. We set in around 9-10 mph and chatted as we ascended. He told me how he has become pretty good friends with tom Danielson who road for Harmon cervelo last year. Tom comes in quite a bit to the shop he works for. Talked a bit about races for this season how he's going to warm up for the UCI Pro season by doing some of the local MBAA races! We talked about routines. Second time up I didn't talk much graham set a good pace up we bounced from 8 near the bottom and 13 closer to the top. I fell back just bellow the high school. I donno what happen but my legs just stopped. I tried pushing it as best as I could but couldn't hold his pace. Kids a monster going to be a big shot in a few year if not sooner! The steep section wasn't horrid but just couldn't turn the legs over like I wanted to! Still kept spd up around 7-9 on the 16-20% grade section. Meet graham at top by one of the galleries and we continued on past gold long mine and onto the dirt road to Perkinsville. Quickly turned back around and headed down part way down felt pager go off twice, time for me to go to work. Graham desired to head over to Prescott and back to finish his ride! Kids a monster!

Dec 16, 2011

Well today was a cold ride. 36 deg. Road mtn bike for 3 hours. Started out on a usual route from Zachary's daycare out sycamore canyon rd to buckboard rd up to bill gray rd around to 258b onto 9536? Down rust bucket around thumper. I added a new trail the bill ??? Trail in dead horse st park. I came out on Mingus extension and back to daycare.

The roads started out nice but as it warmed up to 45 deg the dirt started to cake on to the tires also the soft dirt felt like you where riding in sand. Made for a little extra effort but makes ya stronger. Tread didn't get to bad but enough to causing my wheel to spin when pedaling. Once onto single track tread cleaned out and Picked up speed . Road rust bucket to thumper no issues kept up a good pace! After thumper I tried a new trail. Started out pretty bad, torn up my horses and very soft and lose. After a few hundred yards turned into an alright trail! If maintained this could be a great trail to add some extra distance to area!!! Over all ride was good only was able to get in 3 hours but 3 is better than 2.