Training Log Archive: biggins

out to Zuma and back. hot and windy. legs felt good.

first ride that felt good all week. there were roving clouds maybe 1/4 mile long of very dense fog rolling around the marina, and what was weird was that they were very well defined: if you were outside of them it was blue skies and sunny, and if you were in them you couldn't see 100m and should have had the lights on.

legs still felt pretty sluggish today, and also noticed that my cadence would drift to about 10 below normal when I wasn't paying attention. not sure which one was causing which.

felt pretty crappy last night so I slept in and went for an easy ride.

so will this make the olympics before orienteering?

C • Premier venue: Catching Featur... 3

Did the circumnavigate-the-Santa-Monica-mountain-range ride. Started off climbing up over Sepulveda pass, which wasn't as bad as I was expecting, just cold. Then down into the SF valley and west out along the north side of the mountains. Really nice roads once I got out past Calabasas. Rolling hills and open horse farms, a lot like northern Baltimore Co. Had a gusty headwind for most of it though. The last climb before dropping down the west side had an insane descent on it. Super steep down a windy canyon. Wasn't sure the the brakes would actually keep me slow enough to make the turns, and this was from a dead stop at the top. Survived that, then out into the farms around Camarillo and back along PCH (with a sweet tailwind - held 27 for about 10 miles). Route was roughly this, with less ocean swimming than may be implied. Turned out to be 98 miles, so I had to loop around a section at the end to push it over. 100 just sounds better.

C • Nice ride! Been plotting loop... 8