Wow-the switch has flipped. He is a riding machine now-on his bike most days of the week. He did 3 workouts on his trainer, plus 3 outdoor rides this past week. His coach sends him his required riding, and he uploads all the data so she can see what's going on. It's WORKING! She's a retired professional racer. Raced for 20 years and has a passion for teaching. So far we love her. Her name is Anne Samplonius. After I found her and decided she might be the one (based on a little bio on a website I found, and her philosophy on coaching), I was chatting her up and she said "Did you pick me because I am Canadian?". I HAD NO IDEA. Pure coincidence, but cool all the same!
As an added benefit, I go along for her suggested rides outdoors. We did a fairly short ride on Friday (24 miles), a faster paced ride on Saturday with a group (38 miles) and then a hill training session on Sunday (27 miles).
Yes, we trained on Easter Sunday. Now *that's* dedication! And since it was our hill training ride, we rode 8.5 miles up the side of a mountain. It was absolutely gorgeous. My favourite ride so far, despite the climbing. Funny thing about the climbing though.......when you look up this particular route online, it ranks it a 2 star ride (out of 5, for difficulty). I didn't find it that hard, but honestly-it makes me shudder what a 4 or 5 star climb would look like. YUCK!
Of course......descending after all that climbing is super fun! I got up to 38.4 miles per hour (62km/hour) and Den was over 40 miles per hour (65/66km per hour). It's not a record for us, but it was fun none the less!
As an added bonus......burning those calories (darn boy burned twice what I did!) made eating the kids' Easter candy less guilt ridden!
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| At the top of the climb was a tiny little town called Jamestown. Lots of hippies around, strumming their guitars barefoot in the park! :-) |
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| Dinner with the family that night. |
Our email went out for donations a few days ago too. Hoping we can meet our target!
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