Busy week with a quick visit to my daughter Margot in Salt Lake city. Monday started out with an indoor bike fitness tests. It had been a while since my last test. I started out easy, aiming at 260 /270 watts but turned out I had a lot of fitness left from the cross season and I was able to go harder and even extended the 20 min test session with an extra 2 minutes to bump up the average. I finished the test with average of 291 watts. Resulting in an FTP of 276 (see my ftp calculator). The last time (July) I tested my FTP was 282 watts.
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Tuesday I went for my regular run, but now in the afternoon. The morning had been very cold. In the evening I participated in the NCC hill climb. It was a 1.87 mile ride up Box Hill. I beat my PR and finished in 7:49 resulting in a 8th place out of 14.
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I had tried to do my first ski runs on Tuesday, but turned out Berkshire East was closed that day for snow making. I tried again on Wednesday the weather wasn't great, a little drizzle, but managed to get 6 runs in.
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Since the weather was so nice on Thursday went for a 20 mile outdoor ride at endurance pace down rt 116 towards Greenfield and back over Bardwells ferry.
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In the evening participated in the NCC Zwift race, it was a relatively short race, 4 loops on the Volcano circuit, 10 miles total. I was able to stay with the lead group until the last half mile when the lead group broke up. So I focussed on getting my standing sprint for the last 0.3 mile. I ended up 14th out 31.
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That night it snowed and John and I went out for a Fat bike ride in the morning. There was about 3 inches of snow and it was still snowing a bit. The trails were hard, but still a little bumpy.
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We went for a 4.8 mile loop and passed along the Conway grammar school across rt116 and then along the trails back home. I had brought my GoPro and recorded some sections and learned another lesson to not take your hands of the handle bars descending a bumpy snow covered trail, like I did and managed to fly over the handle bars. I banged the top of my right knee on a rock covered under the snow.
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What was cool to see was the Garmin Rally pedal based power meter in action, as it showed some big numbers climbing the steep snow covered sections as I had expected last year.
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Friday night Paula and I flew to Salt Lake City to visit my daughter Margot and Brendan. For Christmas Brendan had given me a ski ticket. So the next morning at 6:30 we went the ski bus to the Soltitude ski mountain. We skied all day and the especially in the morning the conditions were amazing. The ski slopes were definitely a level up from the slopes we have in New England. After 25 miles of skiing (and riding the lifts) my legs were shredded.
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Sunday we went for a 2 mile hike with Margot, Brendan and their dog Moose. The views were stunning, being surrounded by mountain ranges.
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Here the week on Veloviewer.
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