Sunday, February 06, 2005

Gators and Fog

It has been a pretty busy week with some travel down to Tampa for business. The resort I stayed in was absolute massive with a ton of walking. It has 4 golf courses and one of them is used for the annual PGA Chrysler Event. I managed to sneak out of the meetings long enough to get in a round of golf on the PGA course. It was absolutely spectacular and I played surprisingly well for having rental clubs and not playing for 6 months. I shot an 89. Maybe if this 24 Hour racing thing doesn't work out I should become a golfer.......nah. The coolest thing of the round was seeing an alligator at the side of a pond, plus two more in the water. I kept my distance but they were massive!

I managed to use their Gym once and it was a bit of a disaster. It was a tiny hole in the wall with one exercise bike plus some weight machines. It was bloody hot in there and smelled really bad. I rode the bike for awhile and then did some leg curls and extensions. Big mistake. These machines were very cheap and I proceeded to bruise both of my lower chins. It made it very painful to walk around this huge resort.

The weather finally cleared up here in Oakville for the weekend so I took advantage. I managed to get in 2.5 hours of riding on Saturday and another 4.5 hours on Sunday. The Sunday ride interesting as there was a ton of fog. The temperature never warmed up enough to burn it off....in fact the further north I rode the cooler it became. It was so cold that the moisture on my Rudy Project glasses froze. It was a beautiful ride otherwise as all the trees and bushes were completely frozen with a layer of fine snow. By the last 40 minutes of the ride I was suffering pretty bad. I am sure it was a combination of some longer rides along with the chest cold I am fighting. I think I will take a few days off to get complete heathy. The 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo starts in 13 days and I need to be health for that race, although my expectations are not high....I am really hoping to just ride steadily and for as long as possible. I don't always make it through the entire night at this race because of my fitness level, however I have trained more this winter than many past ones so I hope I have the base to go long. I won't be too fast as I'm just at the tail end of my base training, just long and steady. We'll have to wait and see.

Steve

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Less than two weeks to Old Pueblo? Holy Shit that comes up soon eh? I haven't recovered from Christmas yet. I haven't even started to think about racing yet ( not quite true, but close ). Good Luck, Don't sleep.
Cheers, Dave ( aka dskunk )