Two Days Until the Adventure Continues...
I am finally going to make it out of Colorado and on to some warmer weather down South, hopefully. I say hopefully because I guess last week it snowed two inches in Mesa, AZ!?! Which is almost as unlikely as me racing the Tour de France. I hope that this crazy weather has gotten all the NM and AZ snow out of its system and will leave me out of the cold for the next three weeks.
The plan for the trip is to continue the biggest base I have ever put in on the bike, by first going to a week of the Cycling Center Camp in Albuquerque, NM. Bernard has been nice enough to let me jump into the camp he is hosting for all the US riders that are going over to race in Belgium this season. The camp will also have riders from the intercontinental pro team Navigators Insurance and the pro women's team Lipton. All three teams are having a big unveiling next Saturday night. I am looking forward to the long group rides with these professional riders and the Cycling Center riders that are coming over from Europe.
After I get a decent beating in NM I am going to drive over to Phoenix, AZ to stay with my cousins, Bonny and Jeff, and put in some long solo rides in the AZ desert. I figure if there is any place that will be dry and warm this will be it, and maybe my body will thaw out. After a week of that I will be finishing the trip off by testing my gains from the Six in November and this massive base load against the Cat 2 Mens field at Valley of the Sun, a three day stage race in Phoenix.
Over the last two weeks I have been making the best out of the cold riding conditions. Sunday was the pinnacle with the best group ride I have ever had in 30 degree weather. My house the Chaomis Army Fort, full of four other cyclist, joined with another cycling house of five and went on a 4 hour mountain bike ride around Boulder.
For more on the adventure, see The CAF Blog.
The plan for the trip is to continue the biggest base I have ever put in on the bike, by first going to a week of the Cycling Center Camp in Albuquerque, NM. Bernard has been nice enough to let me jump into the camp he is hosting for all the US riders that are going over to race in Belgium this season. The camp will also have riders from the intercontinental pro team Navigators Insurance and the pro women's team Lipton. All three teams are having a big unveiling next Saturday night. I am looking forward to the long group rides with these professional riders and the Cycling Center riders that are coming over from Europe.
After I get a decent beating in NM I am going to drive over to Phoenix, AZ to stay with my cousins, Bonny and Jeff, and put in some long solo rides in the AZ desert. I figure if there is any place that will be dry and warm this will be it, and maybe my body will thaw out. After a week of that I will be finishing the trip off by testing my gains from the Six in November and this massive base load against the Cat 2 Mens field at Valley of the Sun, a three day stage race in Phoenix.
Over the last two weeks I have been making the best out of the cold riding conditions. Sunday was the pinnacle with the best group ride I have ever had in 30 degree weather. My house the Chaomis Army Fort, full of four other cyclist, joined with another cycling house of five and went on a 4 hour mountain bike ride around Boulder.
For more on the adventure, see The CAF Blog.
