April 5th and 6th Training Rides - COMPLETED

Saturday
When: Saturday, April 5th
Starting Location: 296 E. Van Buren, Elmhurst
Starting Time: 11:00am
Target Distance: 35 miles
Route: West into Glen Ellyn and then Wheaton.

Sunday
When: Sunday, April 6th
Starting Location: 296 E. Van Buren, Elmhurst
Starting Time: 11:00am
Target Distance: 35 miles
Route: West into Glen Ellyn and then Wheaton.

Making up Some Ground

Last week was a tough first week. We had five riders - Larry, Louie, Matt, Chad, and Paul - on Saturday and found the great hill in Winfield on Summit. This is a hill of about a 6 to 7% grade and about a 1/4 mile long - a perfect training hill in the middle of the ride. Chad trained with us last year but could not make the ride. He has a brand new Specialized road bike and is serious about riding this year. Paul is a brand new rider and used a road bike and clips for the very first time on this ride. I think he found a few new places to be sore by the end of the ride.

Sunday was cold and rainy - about 38 degrees and rain is not a very fun time to ride. For this one, there were just three of us and we all wanted to give up after the first few miles. But mutual peer pressure did the trick and we did the entire ride.

For this week, we will catch up a little ground on the training schedule and shoot for 35 miles - just two miles short of the 37 target for the day. The weather looks like it will be absolutely perfect, so it should be a lot of fun. Again, we will stick with a flat, easy route. We will have rest stops at the Glen Ellyn Starbucks and the Wheaton Caribou Coffee Shop. If anyone is too tired to continue, they can rest while the rest of the group continues and then loops back to pick them up. This worked out well last week. There is no shame in resting while other riders go on. By the time we ride the double century, we will all be cruising!

We will be trying the later times again this weekend to allow a bit of warm up.

Labels: bike ride, double century, syscon, training

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