Amelia Intervals

Sunday March 16, 2008 by Terri Gooch

I’ve been wanting to write lately – but time, unlike the Rolling Stones song, is not on my side.

January started pretty well – I rode everyday but one or two I think. February was not as good to start – work got really hectic and crazy and I missed a bunch of days in the beginning, but the weather changed and we all sort of stopped everything just to get outside and soak up some of that Vitamin D.

March came in like a lion – and apparently it intends to stay that way for awhile. George and I had some great rides in Maupin, but they were short. And sadly in the past two weeks, due to terrible weather and really gnarly work stuff, I’ve only ridden on the weekends. And I’ve only ridden like 15 miles each time….I know. that’s so pathetic.

Yesterday I did another short ride, and today I did another short one but I pulled Amelia. I was reading Ross Muecke’s blog yesterday (he’s done about 1000 centuries already this year!) and liked one of his training ideas. When he’s out on a long ride he does a ladder of hard efforts every 10 or 20 miles. So I thought about that today while I pulled Amelia around. For about 10 feet I’d do a hard effort -ha! no, actually it was longer than that – then recover from the interval and do another that was about 2x as long. Then recover and then 3x. Repeat and ladder back down to 1x. It made a ride that was cold and windy a bit more fun. Plus it’s been really fun to pull Amelia in her Burley. She fell asleep again today. My little sack of potatoes! I figure with the trailer I am probably pulling about 40-45 pounds. Sort of like captaining the tandem with George on the back!

I’ve only got about three weeks until PAC Tour starts – so I am totally nervous that I haven’t gotten enough long rides in. I can’t believe how hard it is to make time to ride. I never thought I would say that – I’ve been thinking back over my past visits to PAC Tour Camp and the different levels of fitness I’ve brought to each one. This one will be with the lowest level of training but with the most developed sense of how challenging it’s been to get each of those miles in.



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