Sub 32 FREE Pizza

Very successful shoot yesterday in and around Tahoe. If there is a better, more pristine and scenic location to ride (in early November) please advise. Although the volume of traffic was a little more than anticipated and we encountered a 20 minute delay for the ongoing road construction project five miles south of Truckee, the primary directive was accomplished. I even managed a sneak preview at Midnight before the central governor demanded four hours of sleep prior to the 0430 alarm for the Monday HoM spin.

Which of course rocked, because when I am tired, I find high intensity to be a particularly valuable antidote. Deeply and subliminally my thinking is that I am practicing for the last hour of an Ironman. With all systems running on the fumes. Out of gas. A flat tire with no spare. The proverbial paddless creek. Anyone who has done an IM knows about this. It is a feeling like no other. You are toast and the butter is gone. Your hopes, dreams, goals and desires are an hour of intense suffering away with one of two options available.

You do.

You do not do.

So we practice this. Isolate the emotion. Get used to it. Make it habit. When things are at their worst, it is time for my best. When I am at absolute zero, the time is ripe for a ten. All it takes is all you got. 

This really casts a new light on how we train. Pushing past. Getting there. Giving more. Preparing mentally for the challenge sure to come should you decide to closely examine your core beliefs about what you are capable of doing. 

You do.

You do not do.

You act.

You stagnate.

You risk.

You fail.

You repeat.

You hide. 

You focus.

You fade. 

All under stress. On a mission. Fatigue becomes nothing more than a six letter F-word. We can practice this monumental transcendence. 

IN the can we now we have the 11.43 miles from Truckee to Kings Beach via Brockway Summit, Hwy 267, 7,179 feet at  summit. Took 32 minutes at an average speed of 21.3 with 1,120 feet of gain. A 8% descent to the lake. A challenge suitable for this spectacular area.

And coming soon to an indoor training facility near you. Anyone who can ride in less than 32 minutes gets a pizza!!!!

Big thanks to Dave and the Sacramento Tri Club who came out to ride, and who assisted me re-carbo-load with $150 worth of pizza after.