Fitness
Week 2
Today was a nice little ride on a COLD start to the week – 26 degress with a 15mph wind out of the west (crosswind for my route today). The mountain bike needs a good cleaning, and the roads are relatively clean, so I took the cross bike. This was pretty static zone 3-4, with [...]
Week End Totals and Core
Saturday core workout: Thoracic Spine Extension and Rotation 3×10 each side Wall Slides with Chin Tuck 3×10 Reverse crunch 3×12 Bridge 3×15 Good mornings 3×10 Weekly Totals I’m taking my first stab at doing some periodization with my training throughout the year. There’s not a lot of reading out there on periodization specifically for cyclocross, [...]
Friday Ride
We’re out visiting Trisha’s family in Dickeyville today, so I was able to take in some new scenery. This is a really beautiful area of the state, the area which wasn’t flattened out by the glacier drifts, and I love riding here. The consequence of the land not being smoothed out is that I get [...]
Vanilla Ice Ice Baby
No riding on Tuesday, but got a good core workout in instead. Tuesday is my late day at work which means I have meetings until 5p and don’t get home until close to 6pm. As I write this, it almost sounds funny that I consider 5pm to be late, as six months ago it would [...]
Snow Biking Two Days in a Row
We’ve been watching the forecast for the last few days, and looking forward to the mid-30′s they had been promising so we could get out and go for a hike or something together. Well, it never got warmer than about 28, so I ventured out on my own. What I missed in the forecast was [...]
Fix My Core Workout
I’ve been using a core workout that takes some exercises from my McMillan Runner’s Core DVDs, this stability ball workout, and a few miscellaneous moves from who knows where. It looks something like this: 3 Rounds of… Bridge (minus marching): 10x Bird Dog: 10x each leg Traditional crunches: 10x Oblique twists on the ball from 3:00 in this [...]
Wisconsin Weather Takes Some Creativity
After ‘cross season ended and the holidays really put the nail in the coffin of my 2011 fitness, I’m starting to start thinking about starting my training up for 2012. Winter is here for real now, and after a few weeks of cold and snow, I was aching to get out and ride. I’m avoiding [...]
