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Please come to Boston for the springtime? Not bluddy likely!

Back on April 13th I said that spring was late in coming, but that cycling season had finally begun. I was wrong. Basically, that was the only nice day we've had all year.

It's currently May 21th, and it's 52 degrees and overcast, which is ( Read more... )

One thing I forgot to note was this year’s totals for my indoor trainer workouts. So here they are, beside 2009’s numbers to provide a comparison: YearSessionsHours~Miles 20093832.2485 20102020.6310

In 2009, I started training hard on January 1, and my goal for 2010 was to see if I could start later in the year and avoid overtraining. So I ( Read more... )

Geez, two weeks into the 2010 cycling season and there’s already so much to tell…

After a long spell of rain that brought flooding to the area, Tuesday March 16th was a beautifully sunny day, with even better weather predicted for the rest of the week, so I figured it was time to take the bike out of its stationary trainer for some pre-season ( Read more... )

At this time last year, I was already two months into my indoor training regimen. But by the end of June I also felt overtrained, so this year I decided to extend my off-season and not do any heavy training until March.

In the first two months of 2009, I spent 22 training hours doing 27 ( Read more... )

It’s May, so things have started happening.

A week ago Sunday I did the full/long Quad Cycles ride for the first time this year, rather than bailing at Northside (Gammy’s) in Bedford. It only added 10 miles to my day, but it was my first 75-mile day of the year. It being May, I returned home with eyes that were absolutely encrusted with pollen.

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We’re now into that time of year when you get about one day per week where the temperature breaks 50 degrees, so I’ve done that 36-mile Blueberry Hill loop I mentioned in the last post two or three times. I like it; it’s a nice ride, not too long, but a good workout. The roads are a bit rough in places, though.

Saturday Jay dragged me out for a ( Read more... )

Although we’re still in February, there’s actually a heck of a lot to report.

For the past two months, I’ve been training exclusively indoors, thanks to the resistance trainer I mentioned borrowing from a friend. It’s given me the most regular winter workouts I’ve had since I started riding.

I’ve used a number of videos to drive my training. ( Read more... )

More developments, more negative than positive.

I’ve read a couple biking-related books recently: Graeme Fife’s “The Beautiful Machine” and Bill Strickland’s “Ten Points”. Unfortunately, I can’t wholeheartedly recommend either of them. The former is rambling, self-indulgent, off-topic, and lacking in cohesiveness, although it does have a couple ( Read more... )

April is when the weather finally starts to turn for the better around here, and last weekend was both the first non-wintry one, and also the first really summery one. And with three months til the PMCand all the ( Read more... )