The next 20 weeks...

Winter training officially starts tomorrow on my beloved computrainer and ergvideo.. this will bring me upto March 12, 2010 where at 4:00PM I plan to be riding in Maui for 3 weeks... boohoo...

Monday - 4X9s tempo pace @ 240 watts avg 3 minutes rest between each
Tuesday - 1:15 @ Temp0 201 watts avg
Wednesday - 1:15 Aerobic 164 watts avg
Thursday - 1:15 Tempo 211 watts avg
Friday - 1:30 Aerobic with some hard sections 204 watts avg
Saturday - Maybe 2 Hours of the Kona Hawaii Triathlon Live Course Video
or 4 X 5 minute Endurance Intervals @ 300 watts, maybe a climb up Mt Ventoux, maybe the Italian Festival Grand Prix Criterium, maybe a jaunt up Plateau de Beille, or the Port de Pailheres, maybe a few hours riding hills in Mallorca... decisions decisions....
Sunday - Sweet F*** ALL!!

Each day also will include some core work, and as much as I hate to say it... stretching...

Ergvideos in use this week:
Monday - Long Threshold Intervals
Tuesday - Tempo Club Ride
Wednesday - Base 3 Cool Rides
Thursday - Four Man TTT
Friday - Adirondack Club Club Ride
Saturday - ??
Sunday - Doing SFA

Heres a video of my view climbing, while the computrainer is setting the riders power level at my threshold level....

The weigh in

Well the XFire topped the scales at 16.8 lbs.. not bad for a 56c-c (60 to top) cross bike.. the funny thing is.. its .2 lbs LIGHTER than my Pinarello Paris (granted thats with Cosmic Carbone Power Tap Wheels) The better thing is my Prince topped in at under 15.6 lbs.. extremely light for a 57.5 road frame...

The plan today... duh.. road of course :)

End of season

The weekend plan calls for....

Beating on the Pinarello in Birds Hill Park seeing how its supposed to be +13 out. A week of HARD Computrainer, Crosstastic on the 26th, and then indoor Winter Computrainer starts til March 12 where Ill be hitting the Roads in Maui by about 4PM for 3 weeks...Im finally down to less than 5 months to go!!

To ride or not...

Well seeing how I just scored some Metallica tickets for tonites sold out show... the bike just got chucked to the corner...

Between flying a Metro around, and tonites concert.. I should be deaf by the weekend...

The bear

Caution.. EXTREME bike porn within

Its done.. aside from lopping the top off the steerer tube... tomorrow evenings project... like they say, measure a million times, cut once.. damn carbon..

Its almost going to be ashame to get this thing dirty!!

Bourkevale Images

Bourkevale CX Videos

Took the week off due to my back bothering me... in the meantime, here's a few videos of the barriers.. my camera unfortuneatly has gone nutzo in still mode, so 99% of all the pics are blurred... I'll post the "better ones"

Treviso

Full Results here:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/uci-cyclo-cross-world-cup-1-cdm/stages/stage-1/results

Treviso

Preliminary results:

Brief results
1 Niels Albert (Bel) BKCP-Powerplus
2 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Telenet-Fidea Cycling Team
3 Klaas Vantornout (Bel) Sunweb Pro Job Cycling Team
4 Martin Bina (Cze)
5 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française Des Jeux


Don't think there was any live coverage on this one unless you had a UCI package from cycling.tv, but those guys are so unreliable now and randomly don't show races so I gave up..

Progress on the XFire

Well, in my attempt to post a picture of the progress... I realized I left the camera ON all night hooked up to the computer.... so needless to say the battery is DEAD!!!
Anyways, I haven't had alot of time to mess with it, but its 80% complete.. I still have to put the chain on, and tune the derailleurs and brakes... and the fun fun fun part... glue the tubulars...

Anyways here's the parts list:
Frame/Fork: 2010 Ridley X-Fire Carbon 56cm
Headset: FSA with Integrated cable hanger
Bottom Bracket: Campagnolo Ultra Torque English Thread
Crank: Campagnolo Chorus 10s with TA Vento 46T outer, Campagnolo 39 inner
Front Derailleur: Campagnolo Chorus 34.9mm
Rear Derailleur: Campagnolo Chorus 10s
Casette: Campagnolo Veloce 12-26 10s
Shifters: Campagnolo Veloce 10s New Style Ergo
Brakes: TRP EuroX Carbon with inline adjust pads and adjustable straddle cable
Brakepads: TRP Carbon specific
Handlebars: Deda Zero 100 44cm (o-o)
Stem: Deda Zero 100 12cm
Seatpost: Deda Zero 100 Carbon 31.6 diameter
Saddle: Selle Italia SLR
Handlebar Tape: 4ZA
Pedals: XTR
Chain: Campagnolo Record 10s
Wheels: Gigantex 38mm Carbon Tubular on Novatech hubs
Tires: TUFO Flexus Primus 32mm Tubular
Cables: Campagnolo Ultra Friction

New bitch

Might as well be a hot blonde... cause this baby is HOT!! In fact its on FIRE!!

Motivation to kick my ass back in gear

It may be indoor motivation, but I gotta do something here...
Should hopefully be receiving my new ergvideos today.. Some of the videos I purchased were the "Roads of the Tour de France" which includes the climb up Mt Ventoux!

I also opted for a few more including "Grand Prix Blainville" and the "Italian Grand Prix" both sound incredibly difficult, but its all good... To check out the coolness www.ergvideo.com

I checked my TT test I did last year on the Computrainer compared to this year at the exact same time... as crap as I feel, Im very slightly ahead.. its only 5 watts ahead, but If I can progress like last year and get another gain in the watts its all good... Ive decided Ill just be doing these ergvideo rides from now on during the evenings at very low wattage (150 avg or so) for at least 3 weeks, maybe the odd weekend road ride (weather pending of course) I'll have to retest my threshold at some point real soon for the ergvideo training... 20 minutes up a 2% grade right now doesn't seem like alot of fun... hopefully I can average 330 watts.. for some reason Im guessing 310 though.

On a sidenote, the UPS 757 arrived this morning from Minneapolis with my new CX frame... Im usually pumped about getting a new toy... right now, I could care less to be honest... don't get me wrong I want it bad.. Im just not motivated to start building a bike right now... Im thinking Im gonna pull out the golf clubs on the weekends til it snows and just enjoy something different...

I'll post some pics later of the new CX bike.. it is very cool I must say... and yes its Belgian...