At 2400 meters!

Last week was really a crazy one. Lot's of things to do.

I had to go to the Canary islands (I'm actually here) and had to prepare all the material to the trip and also finish some things from work before travelling.

About sports ... let's go chronologically! They put the pedal back on the spinning bike, changed the pedal of the other bike to a SPD and also put a third bike with SPD. That's good! It was getting a bit crowded sometimes, specially because of the race.

Last week was a recovery week, which was used as such :-)

Normal climbing on thursday! We may have found another place to climb in the town. Thorsten and Josu were in charge of checking this other place, just to vary a bit.

On the weekend I managed to train for the race on the road! It was nice, 51 km, but I got my knee a bit achy. Contacted my specialist in biomechanics and did some changes on the bike setup. Now, coming back I'll check it.

Before travelling, I managed to train on monday and tuesday! Tuesday on the street! That was nice. So half a week of endurance!

Now I at 2400 meters observing! YEP!! Astronomers do it at night :-)) hehehehehe

The way here is a road uphill of 36 km, going from sea level. So, 6.6%, on average! I'll try to bring the bike when I come here next time!! When I was leaving to the telescope there was someone arriving with a MTB at the guest house ... I got really envy!! heuheueheuheuehe

Getting back I'll finish the endurance week and hope that the spring rains give me a break!

Not so good week!

This week was not really a good week in all the aspects, not a terrible one, but a week full of "bad days".

Climbing on monday and thursday! That was good! Josu, our "climbing master", is teaching me new techniques and improving is always nice! On thursday I remembered to take the camera with me, so, a picture of me on the wall!


Last week, after saturday, my knee was really aching and I had to take a little care with it.

The week training was intensity, it was good, but on friday I got a little up set with the gym which changed the only spinning bike with clipless pedals (which I need for some exercises and which give a more realistic feeling to the bike) for another without those pedals. What up sets me is not the bike changing, but the fact that no one there knew anything about it and no one there actually care about. Is like "the bike with clipless pedals is not there anymore" and the replies sounded like "whatever!!".

We had some rain during the week, so most of the snow was gone!! Saturday is the day of the long training (expected a 3 hours ride this week). Besides the weather forecast, friday I was still hoping that saturday would have a good weather (specially because of the spinning bike without good pedals) but in the morning everything was white ... :-/

Only option was indoor training in the bad bike ... set a goal of 2.5 hours, but got deadly bored in 2 hours. Minimum goal for a saturday (it should be 2 to 4 hours of cycling) but still inside the range.

Today was quite of a sunny and extremely cold day with a lot of snow on the floor. Therefore it was a "inside" day. Formula 1 race on TV and the last stage of the Paris-Nice, the first classic road race of the year. Nice day! :-))

First training!

One more week of training! This week was endurence. It was good!

No climbing on thursday, for work reasons, and on sunday (today) the sports center of the university is closing at 3 pm, because it's winter vacation.

Yesterday I woke up, a bit late, and it was really sunny, so "why not" a outdoor training (without rain that time). Got the race bike and went to the road, for the first time with it!! It was great!! It really responds very well!!

So! First training of the "season" and first training with the race bike!

It also gave me an idea of how much training I'll have to do to finish this race!!