Thursday, October 27, 2005
FINDING WINTER
OK.. the weather was foul and I am talking chickens, geese, and partridge! The damn sky was falling. Dark dismal with cold rain is how I would describe it in laymen’s
terms.
I finally got out the door at 11:45 and jammed on a mission toward the daughter of the stars Shenandoah mtn. I shocked to see the white coating the tops of the mountian had received. Cranking it out at a solid endurance pace of 140+hr I got to the mouth of the mountains where a tongue of small river escapes. The temperature dropped 10 degrees in 10mins! yikes, It was now also totally cloudy. As I started my At Effort I built up a enough heat to fight the cold. I couldn't quite attain the hr I wanted to due to the cold 40 degree temps. As I start getting to 2500 ft the snowy wind picked up and gusted pulling the still fire colored leafs. Another turn and white. Some branches where white. Another turn and bam a hillside frosted another turn and powerful storm gust ripped leafs and limbs from a tree. Amazing now just the road was not covered in snow. Then I got to 3000ft and I was in the middle of a dangerous snowstorm with driving winds and temperatures in the 30s. The trees where all bent over from the unexpected weight of inches of snow on
Leafs with 4-5 inches of snow and slush on the pavement I couldn't help but think of a woman who died here 100 years ago while trying to make it over the mountain.
I checked out and jogged a bit to keep from freezing on the way down.
I got in my 20 accelerations they where only at 85 % of max. And then my 3/5 min blow out hell intervals went ok the 1st one was only 3 mins and the following ones where maybe 4 mins and change..
Tonight’s cross race was a bit disastrous but because I got last place due to a loose seat. Because of always chasing it made for a really hard interval workout with some massive strength work riding up run ups in a bad gear makes your muscles want to explode. Erin and I had a great time sprinting around the cross course, it reminded me of some fond moments from winters a few years ago when we went to the mid atlatic cup races.
I didn't have a power meter on but it was an over load of intervals. Ouch.
Cheers JB
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