Triathlonious

Saving Lives One Mile at a Time | Fighting Leukemia and Lymphoma

Swim Bike Run - the flyer

Here's the flyer I'm sending to all my friends and family who prefer snail mail to email.

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Put it up at work, at your place of worship, your WFCaffe, on your car.

Three Bears Ride - Orinda, California - 18 Miles on the Bike

Today we went out on the longest, most challenging ride thus far. It's a popular route just to the east of Oakland through the backroads of the east bay regional parks. I have the elevation profile below. It gives you a good idea of the workout. The first 2/3 of the ride weren't too bad. But then we hit the "3 bears". Mama bear wasn't too bad. I only have two gears in the front. I'm missing what is lovingly referred to as the granny gear, a gear that I have on my older bike. A gear I missed dearly when I met pappa-bear. 

Bicycle Path - Three Bears - Orinda, CA - a very popular ride with a great descent at Bikely.com

After scaling Mamma bear, tackling Pappa bear was a challenge. If you look below at the elevation profile pappa bear is only about 200 feet higher than mamma bear. But at that point I was 16 miles into the ride and already done a bit of climbing. Scaling pappa-bear took everything I had. At one point I actually thought I'd have to walk. Instead, I convinced myself to keep going, stood up in my clips and cranked my way up the hill. It was pretty crazy and my quads were killing me. It's been a while since I've pushed myself to the point where I consider stopping.  Keep in mind, this is a nice Saturday ride for most of the cyclists of the East Bay. I think it's rated "intermediate" by cycling clubs. Little did I know that the best part of the ride was yet to come. Pappa bear was a bruiser on the front side, but by cranking up 1000 ft I'd earned some seriously fast down hill on pappa's backside. I don't have a speedometer, but I was seriously bombing. Some team members reported that they hit 37mph. Seriously fast. Well worth it. I've made it through the day without taking a nap. I should sleep like a rock.

The Elevation Profile of the Three Bears Ride three-bears-map.jpg | Cal Cycling

Here's the early crew chilling out after the ride.

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Jean-Paul

Saturday Workout | Forty Minutes of Hills | 45 minute Swim | Stroke Analysis

Today was a Run/Swim Brick, but all in all a great workout. We ran two hill loops near Campolindo, ~ 20 minutes each. As always I started out creaky, but once I loosened up I could really enjoy the run. We swam yards upon yards waiting to be video-taped to analyze our stroke, swim technique. It was pretty sweet. Once I saw the video, I could pretty quickly note that I need to work on my body rotation, and not lift my head when I breathe.

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14 mile Walnut Creek to Danville Sunday Ride

Danville Blvd & Rudgear Rd, Alamo, CA 94507 to Greenbrook Dr, Danville, CA 94526 - Google Maps

Today was a "yoyo" - a "your on your own". The Summer Triathlon Team was on their way to Pacific Grove to practice for their upcoming triathlon. I drove out to Walnut Creek for a flat a straight course to practice my biking. An hour on a bike is nothing, but again, I'm just getting of the couch. 

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