8 weeks until Moab

The ride in Moab is exactly 8 weeks from today. It's getting closer a lot faster than I realized, and I am going to have to get more serious with my training. This morning I went on a group ride that left from Schlegel Bicycles in downtown OKC and went out to Lake Draper and back. My coach (the TNT coach) is a really great guy; he stayed with me the whole way, but set a challenging pace. Most of the other riders are on the triathlon team, and are quite a bit faster than I am still. It was only a 30 mile ride – not as long as my ride to Okarche, but I set a quicker pace and thought it was just as a more challenging a ride.

I picked up a copy of The Time Crunched Cyclist, and would like to start training along the book's recommendations. Basically, it recommends shorter but higher intensity workouts with the goal of being at or above the lactate threshold in order to improve both aerobic and anaerobic energy production.

Good news on the fundraising front - my boss made a $400.00 contribution yesterday and two colleagues from work donated an additional $100.00, which brings me to almost 25% of my $3,500.00 goal. If you'd like to donate, there's a handy link at the bottom of the page, or you can visit my TNT page. Any donation is appreciated, even ten bucks. It all gets me closer to my goal and goes to cancer research and assistance to cancer patients. (Though admittedly the $25 and $50 or higher donations get me there a little quicker and might allow me to beat my goal.)

Part of the route at Moab (from http://skinnytireevents.com)