June 2012

This month featured a lot of racing. Despite this, my overall volume remained consistent with previous months (see below).The month included the following races:

• Wednesday Night Series
• Mercx-style 16km ITT - finished a respectable 8th in Category A field containing some very good racers.
• 2-up Sprints - somewhat reeling from Banff, and largely due to disastrous sense of timing and focus, the evening only salvaged by a decent post-race ride with Mike and Isaac B.
• Giro-style RR - 32.4 kms, 4 category 4 climbs, 600m of climbing - 'nuff said! Not my favorite race, but can't argue with the training benefit of hanging on as long as I can to the Evan Bayer train up 5-10% loong climbs...

• Underwear Affair 10k Run - Official time 41:42.4. Good enough for 8th across the line.

• ABA

• Banff Bike Fest - Great prep work leading up to the event, solid result in the prologue, weak ITT, and abundance of power in the crit, despite the unfortunate involvement in 2 crashes.
• Devon GP - A week after Banff, and just days after discovering I had been upgraded to cat 4, my form felt great and placed 5th and 4th on consecutive days.

Next month, there will only be one weekend of ABA races, the RMCC Road Rage SR, July 14-15 in Canmore. It features a 5km prologue along the ski-roller path (think hilly bike path), a downtown crit, and a road race.I'll train through these races in order to attempt a second peak during the Alberta Cycling Super Week in August.

Stats:

• Run: 10 runs, 80 kms, 6:50 hrs (most volume of runs recorded in garmin connect over the last 13 months)

• Bike: 34 rides, 982 kms (+1 trainer ride), 39:40 hrs