Training last weekend was all about the overs!
Total Km's for the 2 days Approx 250km
Great company and a little luck with the weather made it a fun weekend of training. Looking forward to many more before the TOUR de CURE 2008
Can you guess who's legs these are?
Safe riding everyone. Enjoy the training over the holidays and remember you don't want to be under done on the TOUR!
Knowing that days 4 and 6 of next years tour are equivilant to climbing to base camp of Everest, a group of TDC riders (Cosie, Phil, Mal, Max, Marty, Loey) began 3 solid months of training to be fit and ready for next years ride. Over the next 3 months TDC riders will clock up close to 5000km in training. Hate to think how many powerbars and energy drinks we will go through to complete these rides. Apologises to all partners for the after effects of those bars and GU's!
Some compelling facts behind our solid training regime
Tour 08 is 1206km over 9 days
Our longest day is day 4 and that is 207km
Day 6 is not far behind with 205km
On each of these days we climb some 2000m
Over the entire 9 days we will climb 9643m. Everest is only 8848m
Backing up on Sunday taking the long slow dead road* to Ettalong having done Palm Beach and an equally slow dead road out to Akuna Bay on Saturday was great training. Punch up the hills knowing these were the 'OVERS'.
Total Km's for the 2 days Approx 250kmApprox ascent for the 2 days 1800m
Average Speed for the 2 days approx 26km/hr
Food Consumption for the 2 days.............HEAPS! Loved those extra pancakes on Saturday.
Great to see everyone in kit and making some great impressions on passers by. The roads taken were absolutely perfect training and I expect this could we be the norm for the next 3 months. Personally I will be aiming to do 250km every weekend and at least another 150 during the week if I can. For me, shedding a couple of extra kilo's before the ride will make every meter we climb that little bit easier. Giving away 20kgs to Berty, Loey, Beast and in fact most riders (except MAX at the moment) is inspiration to be lighter for the ride.
Great company and a little luck with the weather made it a fun weekend of training. Looking forward to many more before the TOUR de CURE 2008
Can you guess who's legs these are?
Safe riding everyone. Enjoy the training over the holidays and remember you don't want to be under done on the TOUR!
Cougar
* Long slow dead road = a back country road that is not tarred (hot mix) and has little or no free roll when on a bike.................we don't like these!
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