100 miles in a couple of hours...

So it has come again... A whole year has passed since I finished my first Jalapeno 100 and tommorrow I do it all agian.  I have done several 100 mile rides but this is the one I first set my goal of accomplishing when I started to lose weight.  I did this one all by myself. That was then and this is now... This year I'm going with a big group,  This year I'm helping my sister finish her first century.  Even Adrian, the 6 ft 3 260 pounder is going to finish this.  They will get to experience something that not that many people can say they have done.  It will be a good day.

Cold GO AWAY let me ride....

Another day on the trainer. This time we distracted ourselves by watching the waterboy. Come on warm weather, let me ride.

It's like a sauna in here...

 This is a picture I took while on the freeway yesterday.  That is how it has been the past week.  Horrible! Gloomy! Just plain nasty... Unsafe riding weather.  Good thing I got my man cave!

It's cold outside but we still get a good workout inside. Too may people in here that it feels like a sauna.  You sweat like crazy, dropping pounds on a trainer is easy!  It's gonna feel weird next week when we start on the road again. My legs are gonna be all muscle! lol

I got game....

Today I hit the court!  Laced up my Nike's grabbed a basketball and went out the school some punks!   Well the first guy to challenge me was an 8 year old kid.... He did not look that tough so I challenged him to a game of horse.  It was just a kid so I started off easy to not discourage the kid.  All of a sudden he starts doing trick shots off the backboard, bouncing it off his head and doing layups.  He took me out quick!!! I got horse and all he had was the H!  Damn, kids now a days got skills! lol

After that warm up, well lets just say it was a warm up cause I will ignore the fact that I got embarrassed by an 8 year old,  we started the real game of 5 on 5.  Now I brought out my skills which were pretty much my awesome endurance.  I can run around this guys and not get tired, it is awesome! I can't shoot worth a damn but I can get there!!! lol   

After the game I went home to get our good training ride done.  Billy, Serge, Sebastioangns and Chris showed up for the fun.  Overall it was a good workout day mixing it up with bball.  On to tomorrow!!!! 

Getting new faces on the trainers...

This is what it is all about... Get someone on the bike and make him work hard to get to the point where they want to be.  Adrian has been riding off and on for about a year now and it seems like he never puts full effort into his cycling.  Of course he has been getting better over the year but he never seems to push himself over his limits in order to really make any gains.  Well today I got him on the trainer, I tightened up the tension, blasted the speakers, and gave him some motivational yelling!  He had the hardest workout he has ever had in his life.  On the trainer there is no coasting... you have to push yourself, you have to get past the pain and keep those legs moving.  I'm sure he will feel it tomorrow but I know that he gave it all he had.  Put the effort into every ride you do and your goals will be accomplished.

Welcome to EIJ training...

This is the start of something big.  It's pretty awesome when you can get some people that would not want to go out on the road on a bike.  Makes the experience so much more fun.  Got a whole group of spinners at my house today for a good 1hr session that is pretty hardcore for the regular rider.  The good thing about the trainers is you go at your own pace so you will not get discouraged like when you get dropped on the road. Even my 60 year old uncle did a good 50 minutes of the workout! Thats amazing seeing him go through the whole thing considering that last year he could not walk and was in his death bed.  Coming from that deep of a sickness to getting on the bike and pedaling with the guys made him so alive.  He was just happy that he could get on it and join in.  We are spreading the word and the group is already 6 people strong. Need more people with trainers and we have had some considerable interest.  FUN FUN FUN and all for a good purpose.

Let's see if this ends up as something big. Awesome!

Got myself a trainer....

First of all I would like to point out that my bike survived yesterday's thrashing beautifully! No scratches, no dents, just like new the way it has been.  THANK GOD!!! lol

The day started at 530 in the morning when I received a text from Mike saying that he was not feeling well and was going to pass on our morning ride, but was not sick enough to eat some IHOP.  Well there went our plan for the morning. After IHOP we decided to go to Academy to shop for an inexpensive trainer because we were talking about how it was going to be raining the next few days and we still needed to get our workout in.  Found myself a nice $80 buck trainer, I could not see myself spending 2 to 3 hundred bucks on a piece of metal that puts resistance on your wheel and I can deal with the noise by turning up the volume.

For some reason Sergio broke into a dance when I was opening the package, he gets excited with these things. lol...

Thats when the real fun began!  Fortunately I have an awesome wall projector screen that we can see training DVD's on!  This movie was intense.  Riding a trainer is a beast in itself, there is no coasting, constant resistance and no wind to keep you cool.  My heat rate in a race is usually around 154, with the trainer and this workout I was up to 168 for pretty much the whole 1 hr workout!  This is tough, I can not stress enough. I believe that if we do these a little more often, it will give us great leg strength that when we get out on the road we will be flying.