Finally, spring is showing up,
the birds tweet, the temperatures are getting warmer and it’s raining a lot….so
the trails are muddy, which means no MTB, which mean I’m sometimes grumpy but
that another story!!!
We took advantage of a beautiful
sunny day to fit the 1h40min ride schedule in our training plan with the group
ride from Mitch’s Bike Shop “Biowheels”. The shop is located on Madeira (check
the link on the right) and it’s a great place with lot of good gears, bikes and
team and a great bike fitting system “Retul” (I will use it soon after changing
stuffs on the TT and MTB!!!).
Every Monday evening, Wednesday
evening and Saturday morning, Mitch has a group ride starting from his shop
with a well thought A and B group system. Basically, we start all together and
the riders who get dropped during the ride create a B group.
David, Marc and I were fully
motivated by the sunshine of the day for a nice week day ride...but I was
finally the only one to make it, as David got stuck at work and Marc in the
traffic because of a car crash on the Highway…Don’t take the highway at 5pm in
Cincy…just don’t do it!!! Trust me, it’s a perfect picture of “the Murphy’s law”…
:P
6:15pm the ride begun, and we got
pretty quickly in line taking relay to get a fast pace. It’s early in the
season as the main race is in October (aka IM Barcelona…Back to Europe!!!). It’s
been a while I have ridden in an organized big group and I wondered during the
first 10 minutes if I was in shape for that…
As I got warmed up, and it takes
more and more time “Diesel style”, everything got back naturally, drafting,
taking the relay and everything was so enjoyable with a great weather and a nice
group of riders.
The climbs went not too bad, but I could feel that long winter
and lot of work has to be done to get my climbing speed back…hopefully we will soon
go for long MTB rides, that always helps!!!
We re-grouped after the last
climb and rode back to the shop just before night..which made me realized that
I still haven’t got a new rear light.
Too late for a transition run, and a bit lazy too (the shoes
were in the trunk and the stayed there). I also forgot to drop my rear wheel
with a loose spoke to the shop…next time. That's the perfect kind of short ride of the training plan.
Thanks Mitch and the group for this nice ride, see you next
week!!!
55.4km - 1h39min - Avg:33.6km/h - A good dose of fun.
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