Two weeks ago MTB season ended for me. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make it to nationals so I decided to look ahead to next season. Since then I have for the most part taken some down time from riding. I got my new ride (Specialized tarmac expert w/ rival) its not my E5 s-works but it isn't anything to complain about.
November 5th marks the beginning of my training for road. I haven't been riding very long and this is in reality the first time that I am doing a training plan. We will see how it goes.
So this weekend I was supposed to go to veloswap in Denver, Co, but instead decided to do my first century. In the past I have come close but never completed one. Two other people went with me. Rachel (CSU teammate, and her friend).
The weather this weekend was crazy. When we left in the morning it was cloud covered, slightly chilly, and by the afternoon it was sunny blue skies. The only problem with the weather and this ride was inconsistency. There were times where you were riding and hit this wall of cold air, and when I mean cold it was about 20 degrees colder. Then, the climbs. Seriously, I haven't seen this long of climbs ever. We did this one climb and it had to of taken us 45minutes, and that was at about 10mph+.Leaving Fort Collins (the bagel place) at 9am the adventure started. My headed to Masonville via the dams, then to Estes Park. Once at Estes we headed to Boulder Co. We stopped twice along the way to refill bottles and stretch. It was funny on some of the descents people in cars would ride behind us and see how fast we were going. This one guy in a truck stuck his head out the window and using his fingers showed us the speed (45mph, that was 5 over the speed limit). He seemed pretty stoked.
Overall, I would say that this was one of the most intense rides I have done. The only problem with this ride is that fact that it isn't a looped ride. We ended up in Boulder where the guy I rode withs father gave us a ride back to Fort Collins.
