holy wind....and an update on paleo

[Ryan Gibson]

Well, getting in mental therapy and training miles this past week/weekend has been tough, with all the rain and my son's 3rd birthday party...but I got out Saturday afternoon for what I thought would be a nice 40ish miler road ride with a friend. It was the windiest conditions I have ever walked, run, hiked, biked, driven, etc etc in-ever. Decided to go out and over the Marshall Wall from Novato, then down to Pt. Reyes and back in through Nicasio Res. WOW, felt like 40+mph gusts straight on most of the 25-30 miles to Tamales Bay. Despite feeling fresh and strong, my time up the wall was ~23 minutes, whereas I usually do in ~17mins. There are two ways to tackle conditions like this...and thankfully I usually take the right way...to not consider it bad, but, rather, enjoy the extra workout and changeup from the norm. That might have been the hardest 54 miles I have ever ridden, as I pulled my friend the entire ride. Tough sleep with restless/twitchy almost cramping legs that night, but it felt good :)

 

Paleo is going okay, verdict is still out on whether the tweak to eliminate gluten and dairy from an already low-carb diet will benefit me. Great consciousness has resulted in losing 2-3 lbs so far, down to 175.

 

[Paul Montgomery]

The upside of a crazy hard headwind is when it becomes a crazy fast tailwind...I was out the same afternoon and clocked my slowest time out of Nicasio to P.R. and on the way back averaged 25+ at a "tempo" pace...

[Ryan Gibson]

Very true, and that tailwind saved me from a major bonk, as we were low on fuel. If we had had the right fuel and my riding partner had been conditioned for it, we could have had some top 10's on the way back for sure.