Erin is here with me and we are getting some good training underway.
We've had a couple of good rides, and thus far, to Andy's pleasure, zero dog attacks.
On Monday, resident cycling hero Thad Dulin and I went for an awesome adventure/misadventure. We covered a lot of ground, riding mountain bikes between the various trail networks and finished our route on some of Ian's famously rugged and tiring trails.
Hopefully, by the week's end, the rest of the crew will descend on Clemson for the Chicken Ride - a training season Saturday tradition.
In the meantime, for today's route we are riding some of Hincapie's familiar training grounds, heading northwest through the towns of Central, Norris, and Pikens, and on up the six and a half mile climb of Caesar's Head. This route will take us to the lair of the Dragon, a.k.a. Off Road Assault on Mt Mitchell racer director Todd Branum. If he's not home we'll probably refill our bottles at a gas station. From there we'll head on through Roslyn and then hit a series of climbs taking us back to the foothills for the ride back to Clemson.
The maps are ready.
Stay tuned for more training stories.
- Jeremiah
Labels: Training
posted by Jeremiah Bishop # 10:36 AM 
