Sunday, February 24, 2008

Mt. Lemmon...A Success!!!

After 6000 feet of climbing, almost 5hrs in the saddle and 82* weather, this was the perfect ride to end our incredible week of training here in Tucson, AZ!
It was pretty crazy climbing to a ski resort with snow...kinda odd in AZ
I do however, have to comment on the lessons learned from this trip...

1) Don't bring your TT bike to ride when you haven't been on it in 4 months. I might not be able to feel my lower back for the next week.
2) Ride more than one hill that is longer than 5 minutes before you come unless you're okay with feeling like crap climbing for a week straight.
3) Pack running and cycling shoes as well as a swimsuit in your carry on...airlines lose shit
4) Even though it's convenient, sample packets of recovery drinks just don't cut it...Grape Cytomax is disgusting
5) Boulder really does have some pretty cool people to hang out and train with...even outside the bubble :)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you for posting all the wonderful, smiley pictures of your fun times in Tucson. I really enjoyed looking at them...

Love you,

stageracer said...

vacations over....back to the grind!!!!