After 2 days of racing at Noho took Monday as a rest day. Knowing that I would be busy the next day. I started with an ez Fat bike ride to the CSA to get the regular eggs, milk and yoghurt. This time I also had to buy a gallon of maple syrup.
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When I got back did a leg strength training followed by a training session of Tabata intervals. This was also the warmup for the NCC hill climb. We went up Leith Hill in Zwift and ended up 3rd. I had misjudged the finish and started to sprint too late. Anyway was another proof that I was in form.
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The next day David and I did the last cross training of the season. Besides riding the regular lap, we focussed on running uphills as that would be needed on the nationals course in Hartford.
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Thursday morning Dusty and I did a 3.7mi run. There were some snow flurries at the start and some sections had some light snow on the road. In the afternoon I did another cross training with lots of cornering and also did a couple runups on the sledding hill along Reeds bridge.
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On Friday did an ez spin on the trainer. I feel these spins have multiple benefits. First keep from snacking ;-), they energize and gets the blood flowing to help recovery, oh and I can watch CX race replays.
Saturday Paula and I hiked for 4.3 mile in the Conway forests. It was hunting season, so I was wearing a orange jacket and hat. We did not see any hunters. In the afternoon did openers for the Shedd park race the following day.
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When I read the pre-race email I heard they reversed the course from the previous years. So Saturday I watched a race video from Vlad from last year. Good that I did as on the morning of the race completely mis-timed my arrival and due to my late arrival was not able to do a course inspection. My warmup was not the best either. My first two laps I needed to get to know the course, but then I "got" the course and started to put better lap times in. In the end finished 16th out of 34 in the Master 50+ open field and matched the race predictor.
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