Hit the trails in Collins with -22 conditions. Required some extra layering and not really stopping. but still a good 90 minute ride.





Another pic of the Mistress.

After thinking about it during my ride I have made the decision to buy the Sette seatpost in Febuary. This should be a good piece of kit.

The Office Chair

Found some seatpost info that has piqued the interest of the cheap and frugal team. It appears that Pricepoint.com has a seat post from Sette that shouild fit nicely with my requirements. It's cheap and it seems that it will work. And I can get it for less then $100 CDN and that is important as money is a bit tight right now.

http://www.pricepoint.com/detail/16675-275_SETSD7-0-Search--/Sette-Ryde-ST-850-Suspension-Dropper-Seatpost.htm

So now just need to raise the capital to take care of this.

Was thinking today while perusing Chapters and the cycling books how over complicated things have become. So much energy is wasted on HRMs and such when most people either can't afford them or want them. The emphasis is less on just trying things out and more on following some set formula. Seems a little boring.

Fresh Tracks

Am doing 2 a day rides for the next 3 days to increase bike time. This should be fun


Today was some fresh tracks.


Hydration break
Found a spot where some Deer had a nap last night.

Frozen Intervals

Today headed out to do some Yo-Yo hill intervals. Not exactly warm as it was about -14 with windchill.

Then spent part of the afternoon doing some more work on the Franken Cross. Hopefully will be up and running by Friday.

Exhaustion

With a mere 3 hours sleep headed out to Rogers to ride with some new people. Good relaxing social ride. Plus barely ate much at all today which fits in with the present nutrition protocols. Which have of course been decreed by the coaching staff.

No pic's though as I forgot da camera.

Tomorrow will be the building project for the Franken Cross.

New Part

After a 2 hour ride spent some time installing a new derrailleur and pads.



The work area.

The only easy day was yesterday.

Today was hill day. The workout was 5 times up Base hill with the added bonus of doing it within an hour of waking up and no food. The object of course being to force my body to learn to use fat more as a fuel.

The last descent and time to head home.


Not much of a hill but one's gotta make do.

Tomorrow is the day when I should have the final part in hand to finish the Franken Cross bike.

But first things first, a 90 min ride to Rogers with some one leg work thrown in.

Gotta add to the gear list, Buy a bike computer from MEC in Febuary for both the Cross and the Chromag.