Quiet on the Home Front
But loud in the interior........
Team H2V spent some holiday time in the interior this week with most of the team riding their new Argon bikes from Vancouver to Mable Lake over two days [over 500km and I'll let the boys tell you how it went]. I spent a week in the Ironman capital of Canada, Penticton, riding every day and recovering from a bad food poising incident that had kept me off my bike for 9 days.
Part of the plan has been to increase the kilometres over the next thirty days as this time in our training is pretty much the last hurrah for gaining any speed or strength. After about July 30th most of our team will be unable to gain any major speed and it will all come down to maintenance.
I personally put in 6 hard days in a row, amassing over 400km and learned a few lessons about how I fuel during rides, which for me is an increasingly big worry. Practising riding every 24hrs is something that is needed as with each ride each team member needs to feel and understand how their body will respond to the tired legs that will be inevitable. Feeding during rides is something that we all need to do in order to be prepared for the next ride. I did some hill rides and some long, extremely hot rides and even some slower long rides to test the system and our fuel options.
Carbo-Pro is our fuel of choice as it is ingested as a drink so it helps to maintain hydration as well as give instant important calories. Overall I felt the drink was phenomenal as stomach problems, even on the 33 Celsius 100km day were nill. Elete electrolyte replacement are being used in our water to help replace our key base elements that we will be sweating out and in general it is hard to tell if any of this stuff works but I would say that with 6 days under the legs and recovering from illness being still top of mind, I felt great. I would have to say that it must be working and thanks to the amazing team of nutrition support for helping us make the most of these older bodies!
While it was quiet in Vancouver, the interior saw Team H2V training hard and having a blast doing it.
Team H2V spent some holiday time in the interior this week with most of the team riding their new Argon bikes from Vancouver to Mable Lake over two days [over 500km and I'll let the boys tell you how it went]. I spent a week in the Ironman capital of Canada, Penticton, riding every day and recovering from a bad food poising incident that had kept me off my bike for 9 days.
Part of the plan has been to increase the kilometres over the next thirty days as this time in our training is pretty much the last hurrah for gaining any speed or strength. After about July 30th most of our team will be unable to gain any major speed and it will all come down to maintenance.
I personally put in 6 hard days in a row, amassing over 400km and learned a few lessons about how I fuel during rides, which for me is an increasingly big worry. Practising riding every 24hrs is something that is needed as with each ride each team member needs to feel and understand how their body will respond to the tired legs that will be inevitable. Feeding during rides is something that we all need to do in order to be prepared for the next ride. I did some hill rides and some long, extremely hot rides and even some slower long rides to test the system and our fuel options.
Carbo-Pro is our fuel of choice as it is ingested as a drink so it helps to maintain hydration as well as give instant important calories. Overall I felt the drink was phenomenal as stomach problems, even on the 33 Celsius 100km day were nill. Elete electrolyte replacement are being used in our water to help replace our key base elements that we will be sweating out and in general it is hard to tell if any of this stuff works but I would say that with 6 days under the legs and recovering from illness being still top of mind, I felt great. I would have to say that it must be working and thanks to the amazing team of nutrition support for helping us make the most of these older bodies!
While it was quiet in Vancouver, the interior saw Team H2V training hard and having a blast doing it.
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