We had a group of eight show up for the ride this morning. Instead of going out to High Ridge again, I kept the whole ride more "urban" as we wound around Kirkwood, SoCo, Fenton and Valley Park for just over 2 hrs. Tack on my ride time to and fro and I got in nearly 3 hrs.
I'm surprised my legs feel good. They are not overly tired tonight from the fixed gear. The only problem I encountered was making sure I had a pedal in a good starting position after coming to a stop at a light. Other than that, the ride went smoothly. This route kept the climbing to a 2 or 3 hills. Kerth Rd was a little of a push but very doable. Marshall Rd was the finish to our ride and I was grinding the last few hundred feet. Still, I rode up pretty well.
Hills on the fixed gear should be a good strength builder. A 42x14 is not a huge gear to turn over but you can't spin it up a hill either. You approach the hill and go. Either you are strong enough or not. No wimping out and finding the granny gear. Pedal, pedal, pedal.
News Item of the Day: L'Equipe has nice, small gallery of Hinault photos chonicling his career in honor of his 50th birthday
In other news...
(Translated from Todociclismo) The Basque cyclist Joseba Beloki has broken his contractual relation with Saunier Duval and is negotiating with the Liberty Seguros team, according to the director of Saunier, Joxean Fernandez Matxin: "Right now he is riding on our team, but there is a meeting Monday and most probably he he will leave".
Beloki wants to reach an agreement with the Matxin's team at the beginning of the next week that the two parties will part ways in 2005. The cyclist has begun negotiations with Manolo Sáiz to try to reinforce the Liberty Seguros and to return with the technician with whom he had his best years.
Viewpoint: Beloki just can't make up his mind where he wants to ride. When ONCE folded, Saiz was unwilling to sign Beloki. Most likely because he was recovering from a broken hip afther that terrible TdF crash. So he goes to Brioches La Boulangere. He's not happy there and leaves mid-season for Saunier Duval. Now he leaves for Liberty. Three teams in one year. Nice work. I thought he negotiated some with Liberty when he left Brioches. I guess their budget was tied up at the time since it was in the middle of the season.
I'm surprised my legs feel good. They are not overly tired tonight from the fixed gear. The only problem I encountered was making sure I had a pedal in a good starting position after coming to a stop at a light. Other than that, the ride went smoothly. This route kept the climbing to a 2 or 3 hills. Kerth Rd was a little of a push but very doable. Marshall Rd was the finish to our ride and I was grinding the last few hundred feet. Still, I rode up pretty well.
Hills on the fixed gear should be a good strength builder. A 42x14 is not a huge gear to turn over but you can't spin it up a hill either. You approach the hill and go. Either you are strong enough or not. No wimping out and finding the granny gear. Pedal, pedal, pedal.
News Item of the Day: L'Equipe has nice, small gallery of Hinault photos chonicling his career in honor of his 50th birthday
In other news...
(Translated from Todociclismo) The Basque cyclist Joseba Beloki has broken his contractual relation with Saunier Duval and is negotiating with the Liberty Seguros team, according to the director of Saunier, Joxean Fernandez Matxin: "Right now he is riding on our team, but there is a meeting Monday and most probably he he will leave".
Beloki wants to reach an agreement with the Matxin's team at the beginning of the next week that the two parties will part ways in 2005. The cyclist has begun negotiations with Manolo Sáiz to try to reinforce the Liberty Seguros and to return with the technician with whom he had his best years.
Viewpoint: Beloki just can't make up his mind where he wants to ride. When ONCE folded, Saiz was unwilling to sign Beloki. Most likely because he was recovering from a broken hip afther that terrible TdF crash. So he goes to Brioches La Boulangere. He's not happy there and leaves mid-season for Saunier Duval. Now he leaves for Liberty. Three teams in one year. Nice work. I thought he negotiated some with Liberty when he left Brioches. I guess their budget was tied up at the time since it was in the middle of the season.
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