Apr 13, 2006
Weekend Warrior: Perinton Preview
My next race is Perinton which is located in a suburb of Rochester. Yup, I am heading back out to Rochester for another race. Hopefully everyone on the team will be AOK after the race. This Saturday we finally get the team jerseys. I’ve been wearing my Black Castelli Simple Jersey on all of my rides out of respect for the new team. Plus, it looks better than wearing a Discovery Channel jersey in a race.
Matt Howey of spokepost.com has been posting previews of many local races lately and today he posted the Perinton Preview.
full preview
Furman hill looks to be the big challenge at 100ft of climbing in only a 1/4 mile, ouch.
Hopefully these shorter hills won’t slow me down to much and I will be able to stay with the pack. My climbing speed is not where I would like it to be at the moment. I need to lose about 10lbs to get up the hills a little quicker. This isn’t an impossible task, but it is definately not easy. Every year when I get back on the bike and start riding I immediatetly lose 5 to 10 pounds. I attribute this loss to longer efforts on the bike and less weight training in the gym. This year, the weight loss is happening, but I need to lose 10lbs more than usual since I did not ride much last year and gained a little extra weight.
This evening I rode my usual training route that traverses 91 which is a seven mile climb with about a 6% average steepness. I am working on getting my general climbing speed up and will do more climbing intervals next week. Later on in the ride, I was able to hammer up smaller hills with some significant speed, and I did pretty well in a spur-of-the-moment sprint, so training is working out well.