Training Day

Easy day today.  Went out and played 9 holes with Erin this morning and shot a disgusting 43...but the weather was beautiful.  Decided to hop on the roadie and do a relatively consistent workout, with few hard efforts, from Eagle to Glenwood Springs.  Other than the traffic and the headwind, I got a good spin in, and met up with Erin for some shopping and dinner.  Lots of people on the path through Glenwood Canyon, and lots of boats in the water.

Check out the picture - it's pretty cool when you can go out for a training ride and be able to ride through one of the most scenic places in America.  The Glenwood Canyon rec path is an eight-foot-wide concrete sidewalk extending 17 miles from just outside Dotsero down to Glenwood Springs.  Most of the path is right up against some of the most often rafted sections of the Colorado River; all within a steep-walled canyon.  Decided to use the new heart-rate monitor for this ride...looks like I topped out at 191bpm just outside the canyon, and averaged 169bpm across the entire 1hr44min.  Whatever that means - time to talk to my coach.

Oh yeah - GAMEDAY!  K-State's first game of the 2009 season, against UMass, with the return of Bill Snyder as head coach.  Keeping my expectations tempered for the season, but it was good to follow the team on ESPN.com this evening, coming up with a 21-17 win.  If we could hang on to the ball, it wouldn't have got that close.  Nonetheless, 1-0.

 

Now it's off to go join the J-Block cheer on James Blake in the night match on Arthur Ashe Court in the US Open...