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September 2006 - Posts

• Food Log: 9/30/2006 Saturday

  Breakfast: Coffee Waffles -80g Syrup - 53g Soy sausages - 3g Soymilk 8g *Talk about a sugar spike. Was lightheaded afterwards for an hour 11:30 3/4 cliff bar - 30g yogurt - 30g 12:25 Power Bar drink 2.5scoops 42g 12:30- Ensure 40g 1:30 ride 1:20 On ride Power Bar drink 42g felt fine no lightheadedness. 3:00 Waffle with PBJ - 50g… Read Full Post Here Technorati Tags: Cycling, Mountain Biking Posted Sep 30 2006, 11:26 PM by ashwinearl with no comments

• Poor Mountain Hillclimb tomorrow

  Tomorrwow is the Poor Mountain Hillclimb I've never been here before. Just from reading descriptions it is going to be pure carnage. My palms are getting sweaty just writing this from nerves. I'll be on the hardtail. In a s… Read Full Post Here Technorati Tags: Cycling, Mountain Biking Posted Sep 30 2006, 04:02 PM by ashwinearl with no comments

• Food Log 9/29/2006 Friday

  7am Coffee Low Sugar Oatmeal - 24g Yogurt 34g 1egg 10am Sweet/salty granola bar 19g 11: balance gold bar 22g 11:30 2 fig newtons 28g rode bike down to Radio Shack 1:00 lean Cusine Panini -32g felt tired/light headed after eating this 2:20 PBJ-43g 4:00 Ensure 40g 4:45 Banana - 29g 7:00 3 Pieces Pizza -90g Daily Total: Read Full Post Here Technorati Tags: Cycling, Mountain Biking Posted Sep 29 2006, 08:11 PM by ashwinearl with no comments

• Food Log 9/28/2006 Thurday

  Breakfast: English Muffin 27g W/egg and cheese slice Noon: Hot pocket -40g Ensure+ 50g 1:30 Lunch at sons' school Chicken Fajita salad - negligible Bowl white rice - 30g bowl baked beans - 30g 4:30 -ensure+ - 50g Was going to do cyclocross mock race, but due to rain went on the trainer 5:30pm Trainer ride - leadouts Dizzy after first set dr… Read Full Post Here Technorati Tags: Cycling, Mountain Biking Posted Sep 29 2006, 03:41 PM by ashwinearl with no comments

• Food log

  I'm going to keep a food log for the next week at least to track food intake. The metrics I'm really interested in is carb intake, timing of the carb intake related to training, and how I feel. Specifically, I'm concerned about my excercise induced hypoglycemia This is basically a situation where I feel lightheaded/dizzy pretty much like bonking right at the beginning of a r… Read Full Post Here Technorati Tags: Cycling, Mountain Biking Posted Sep 29 2006, 03:34 PM by ashwinearl with no comments

• Ho hum Interbike

  Interbike is going on right now. This year my enthusiasm for it is very ho hum. There's just nothing I'm really into. It's mainly because of my current situation -I'm totally content with my road bike. Sure new components like SRAM Force or whatever would be cool but I'd rather let that stuff develop for a few years before adopting it. -FS -Just got my new FS and it's going … Read Full Post Here Technorati Tags: Cycling, Mountain Biking Posted Sep 29 2006, 03:07 PM by ashwinearl with no comments

• Interesting diet observations and consipracy theories

  So more than a month ago I had a case of OC (over carb) in a race, and suffered that sickly sweet feeling that permeates your entire body. Bloating, burping, and unable to stomach hardly anything besides grease/fat for hours after the race. The very next day I eliminated junk food from my diet. Cold turkey. For the next week my stomach was in turmoil during the adjustment. I was highly Read Full Post Here Technorati Tags: Cycling, Mountain Biking Posted Sep 28 2006, 01:13 AM by ashwinearl with no comments

• PRQ #12: Jeremiah Bishop

  This is Part 12 in the Pro Racer Questionnaire series. The same questions are posed to pros/semi-pros. The idea is to provide some exposure for the athletes and their sponsors as well as share some info with amateur XC racers. The feedback I've been getting from readers is that they love to hear about this stuff from the pros. There is precious little written about XC racing and sponsors need to Read Full Post Here Technorati Tags: Cycling, Mountain Biking Posted Sep 25 2006, 05:28 PM by ashwinearl with no comments

• Reconnecting

  Had an awesome ride today. Slightly damp, turned to rain/drizzle. The roots were wet and the rocks were slick. I'd been planning on riding regardless of the weather and was actually looking forward to the wet conditions. Lately, I've lost the fluid nimble feeling when riding and like slick conditions to make you relax, flow and bring out your body english. It was nice to reconnect with that Read Full Post Here Technorati Tags: Cycling, Mountain Biking Posted Sep 24 2006, 09:39 PM by ashwinearl with no comments

• H7

  Read Full Post Here Technorati Tags: Cycling, Mountain Biking Posted Sep 22 2006, 08:24 PM by ashwinearl with no comments

• Notes to self on training cycles

  Yesterday the legs felt decent on the commute even though the previous two days they were achey from the race. Those two days were hard so I thought they'd still be achey but they felt snappy on the commute today. I think I do well the week after a rest week. Last week was somewhat of a rest week that ended with a race on Sunday. Last week Mon-Off Tues- Off Wed-1hr with some hard efforts Thurs-Easy mtb skills… Read Full Post Here Technorati Tags: Cycling, Mountain Biking Posted Sep 21 2006, 09:41 PM by ashwinearl with no comments

• Off camber

  Riding off camber turns and trails is something I've been thinking about lately. This is an attempt to put it into pictures. Hopefully it makes sense and hopefully I've got it right. This is bad: This is worse: This is good This is better Read Full Post Here Technorati Tags: Cycling, Mountain Biking Posted Sep 20 2006, 09:34 PM by ashwinearl with no comments

• Good map of poverty creek / Brush mountain trails

  T. sent over this nice map of the Poverty Creek links. If you click on it then go to DIFFERENT SIZES down at the bottom right you can go to the original sized drawing. Read Full Post Here Technorati Tags: Cycling, Mountain Biking Posted Sep 20 2006, 09:00 PM by ashwinearl with no comments

• Good map of poverty creek / Brush mountain trails

  T. sent over this nice map of the Poverty Creek links. If you click on it then go to DIFFERENT SIZES down at the bottom right you can go to the original sized drawing. Read Full Post Here Technorati Tags: Cycling, Mountain Biking Posted Sep 20 2006, 08:58 PM by ashwinearl with no comments

• Analyzing the race

  I've been going over the last race trying to identify problems and how to address them over the next season. From the very start I never really felt that good this past weekend. I just cannot go too hard on the starts or I'm screwed for the rest of the race. Did it again this past race. On sport starts I can hang with a bulk of the pack, not the lead guys. But for experts it's even a stretch to hang at the back. To get the best performance I need to ramp up slower. But fro… Read Full Post Here Technorati Tags: Cycling, Mountain Biking Posted Sep 20 2006, 01:30 AM by ashwinearl with no comments