Missed the morning group ride so went out later by myself. Finally a cooler day here with less humidity
Finally rode into the Sierra mountains, mostly following Interstate 80 up to Dutch Flat and then out Drum Power House Rd:
39 miles of rolling up and down in the heat:
Easy tempo climbing.
I’m the tall dude that doesn’t look like a climber 
Wore my DeathRide jersey in honor of yesterday’s cancelled ride due to fires, and in case I forgot how to climb 
theme song: Love Rollercoaster (original by Ohio Players or cover by Red Hot Chili Peppers)
A bit of a TR outdoor workout this afternoon after a 4.3mi run this morning (with a total of 52’ of ascent!). The temperature was around 32C / 90F, so that was nice. At the end of the ride, Garmin said I was now 50% heat acclimated.
Clouds Rest + 4 is 4x(30s at 130%, 15s rest). I miscounted and thought I was done after the 3 set 
. There were some interruptions due to traffic but generally, I was able to do the workout as prescribed, well, except for the warm-up. The workout is set to roll right into the warm-up of five intervals but getting out the urban area prevented that.
A convenient pause after the first of four sets when traffic slowed.
I’m toast and on an overpass after all 4 sets and looking toward the urban area of Valencia, Spain.
This is the main “hill” on the outbound. The other “hills” are overpasses. On the return, I “tunnel” under this climbing apparatus (there’s an mtb descending the thing).
A brief tuck into the bike path on the return and just entering the urban area. I’m waiting for the green to get back into traffic on the left. There’s a sign ahead giving the temp as 33C.
It’s nearly 9p which means it’s nearly time for dinner. The schedule is a bit different here than back in Switzerland (or the US for that matter).
The rabbit is currently at my friends house and sleeping on him. All is well
If you think the jack rabbit is difficult, try getting a pic of a jackalope!
1978 was my first jackalope encounter, at Wall Drug in South Dakota.
My oldest is on a temporary job assignment about 45 minutes from Wall Drug, and I’m trying to convince her to make the pilgrimage. That pic should help!
I was supposed to do Jacks -1 today, but it was the first nice day after like a week of cold and bluster, and Benjamin wanted to ride but he doesn’t train on purpose, so I compromised and dragged him up my five-mile hill. I may have neglected to mention that it’s a five-mile hill. IT’S FINE he’s fitter than I am anyway.
Lousy two watts off a 30-minute PR. I’ll have to go back and do a better job pedaling through the dips.
The Trønders do ice cream stops instead of cafe stops. I don’t understand. The waffle was awesome.
Best ride of the year today!
Short, mostly in active recovery zone but with my dad!
At 78 he’s still training and racing. After last year with no racing and really limiting his social interactions he was looking forward to a race season again when he crashed in training.
Multiple fractures to his pelvis and shoulder blade put him in hospital for two weeks in April.
After a few trainer rides (on TR) the past weeks today I got to be his domestique for his first outside ride after the crash.
I then went out for a 2:45 endurance/tempo ride which was nice but riding with dad made my week!
Met some mates in the morning again, pre TT. I wasn’t off till near 5pm though so I did a bit of the ride with them.
The wind was supposed to die down a bit for my TT at Cambourne and it was supposed to get wetter too (it had been forecasted thunderstorms earlier in the week) it done neither. With getting held up at the turn and the last 5.5miles being into a 20mph wind I am quite happy with a PB of circa 1min 10secs (circa 22:30 for the 10) 
It sure felt like it was more than 15secs of zone 1 on the way out though
TR puts it at 95% which is about right
Back to the foothills for some climbing:
a lot of short & steep pitches:
The name of the ride is 4 Towers and here they are… the one above Costco Hill:
air looked yucky but air quality AQI index was good. Next up is Beatty Dr the middle portion of the climb is a cat4 1.2km at 9.5% with over half of it above 12%:
just after the steepest part, when I took the water tower pic:
Oak Hollow before stopping at a park and crashing a Zumba class to refill my water bottles:
And the top of Aberdeen Dr a nice 1km 9.1% cat4 climb:
Nice morning for an all zones climbing ride:
Your dad is awesome!!!