I was surprised to hear a familiar voice call my name from atop the levee the other morning as I came up the ramp to the usual morning meeting spot. It was Gina (aka GiVo) and Kenny out for the early training ride. Gina has been mostly in Arizona at Med School for most of the last two years, but is doing a pediatrics rotation here in town for a while, which must be nice for Kenny who has been driving all over the country trying to keep up with her! We had an easy ride and everyone stayed in a double paceline so it was nice to be able to talk and catch up on things with this rather unique person. It is amazing to me how she is able to balance riding and medical school and still always seems to be in such a good mood. She's one of those rare people who really got under my skin. Hopefully we'll all be able to get together for dinner while she's here.
Meanwhile, I finally got the permit for Rocktoberfest done and set up the website and online registration, so assuming that Robin doesn't run into any unexpected problems with our good buddies at the Levee Board, and I don't forget to order numbers and pins, we should be OK for the Oct. 10 race that our club promotes. It's a fun, low-key end-of-season race along the New Orleans lakefront that has gotten to be a real tradition around here. After October, we'll probably start up our traditional Northshore training rides on Sundays and drop back into "base training" mode with more long, slow, distance rides out in the country.
Well, I finally had to resort to chemical warfare with the rapidly proliferating rat population that has sprung up around my house. I think they have been living quite well the last few months, eating the dog's food and burrowing under the concrete stairs and sidewalks. Sadly, they are gone now, except for the stench in my basement that is no doubt the result of one of them who died somewhere down there and who I cannot seem to locate. Oh well, life in the big city!
Cooler weather this morning for the long Thursday ride. Very nice, and it looks like we'll have cool mornings for a few more days. Most of the group this morning wanted to do a nice even paceline, but we had a few new riders show up and Robin spend about 20 miles teaching "Paceline 101" to the guys who were surging three mph every time they'd get to the front.
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Tom: There are lots of books that cover the basics of racing and training. Bicycling Magazine publishes a whole line of small books aimed largely at beginning cyclists - far too numerous to list. Ed Pavelka's book Complete Book of Road Cycling Skills might be what you're looking for. Eddie Borysewicz' book is a little dated now, but has always been popular among bike racers. For training, Joe Friel's Cyclists Training Bible is, well, the Bible of perodization type training.
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