Saturday, June 18, 2011

Marymoor Velodrome



Yesterday I had the pleasure of chatting with the president of the Marymoor Velodrome Association, Hyun Lee, and was invited out to shoot some test video next Friday night. For those of you not up to, ahem, speed, on track racing, their site has a FAQ that will answer all your questions. I am thinking that four laps of high output tack racing might go for a moderately motivational video workout session. Moderately, of course, being relative. I would find this more like monstrously motivational.


If you would like to join the MV caravan next Friday, please drop a comment below and we'll start to arrange the logistics. Racing starts at 7, so I am looking at a 5pm or so boat over. Admission is $5pp, cheap entrainment for a Redmond Friday night. We could also stop at Veraci on the way home for a pizza and ale. That way I could take another look at their world-class pizza oven before starting the brick work on mine. Yesterday we spent the entire glorious afternoon getting the fascia and cedar soffits up as the fire bricks are backordered and might be another week in getting here (all the way from Tacoma.)


As you know this weeks big ride was postponed due to, well, complications. The Elma events we cancelled, Bernie's acute dual achilles tendonitis has prompted rest and recovery (on the couch I was just informed via e-mail), and it's raining. Despite these real-world outdoor issues, we still managed to rock the casbah for 91 (not a typo) minutes this morning, even adding an additional 15 seconds to the attack, max blast, rest drill. They now look like this: Stand (groove)>Attack (15 seconds)>Sit and Max power blast (10 seconds)>Seated attack(15seconds)>stand&recover. Whoa.


Take a look at the very cool promo video and see if you notice some similarities. Whoa.


See ya Friday night.

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