Training Log Archive: ebuckley

In to work. Didn't get going until 6 and was surprised by how much busier things were during the first half of the ride. Once into the hood, there wasn't much traffic. Guess there's no reason to get up early when you don't have a job.

So I have an update on the medical front, which I'm sure all my readers are burning to hear. The liver ultrasound revealed no annomalies in that organ, but they did find a "floating gallstone" (whatever that is) that is now being touted as the likely cause of the whacked beliruben levels. Truth is, they don't know, but I'm supposed to go get the stone assessed. It will be the same surgeon who's slated to fix the hernia, so maybe I can get some kind of bulk discount. I sure hope they don't have to do two separate ops.

C • Medical Update 4

Midland, Brown, around the east side of the airport to McDonnell and then down to the flood plain via Teson. Crossed the river to St. Charles and rode the new cobbles, but the old ones were blocked off for some concert that was going on. Wandered around some more and wound up way out in Harvester at which point I picked up the Katy to get back home.

In to work.

C • Biker body shape 4

Grant's trail route again, this time using Rick's suggestion of Compton and Tennessee to Carondelet. A bit longer and less interesting, but definitely more bike-friendly. I wanted to have some time in West County so I took Union past the trailhead and picked up the trail when it crossed back. Got out to Kirkwood with 90 minutes til my curfew. Squandered it poking around Ballwin and ended up having to come back home riding the shoulder on 141 (yuck!)

Easy jog round the hood.

On CC Lake with Baby-O up front.

C • Baby-O 2

C • Baby-O 1

In to work.

Back home. MRT to Chain of Rocks then further north on Columbia Bottom to Spanish Lake and west across north county. Second half was pretty solid tempo, but mostly I just wanted to try out Kenny's fancy new multiple intensity feature.

C • Kenny's fancy new multiple intensity feature 2

In to work. Finally got an early enough start that it was easy to be under an hour (slight tailwind helped, too).

Back home via Midland and then north to the airport and over to Bridgeton. This was about 1:20 into the ride, so my total time in the saddle for the day was over 2 hours. As I had only eaten 1200 calories so far, that meant I was going net negative on the intake/workout differential (my target to hold weight is +2000). As yesterday was -600 for the day, I figured it was time to refuel.

So, I stopped at a 7-Eleven and picked up my current favorite and relished the fact that it was absolutely necessary that I force myself to eat it.

Sufficiently juiced, I dropped down to the flood plain and added a bit of quality by pounding the River Valley climb and the double hump through Old Farm.

Finished off the ride with some bike handling work. Not sure what I expected to gain from that as I have no intention of entering a criterium any time soon, but there's a certain satisfaction in keeping an old saw sharp.