“Feeling like I just lost my mind. One step ahead, and yet one step behind.” -Dismay
Oh man, last three days were BRUTAL. Pro roadie Dylan McNicolas was so beat at the cafe stop 1 cafe con leche turned into 4. We got so wayward because we had 3 hard days in a row. The first was a run and then a CP 20 all out power test on a 7k climb of switchbacks. That was followed up a hard tempo day of 5 hours on the bike with serious climbing (7000 feet) plus a sick swim with fast intervals, and then came SICK SATURDAY.
A nice 10k run with 5k tempo because I was running with short course stand out Eric. Watch for that kid, some day you will see him in the elite ranks. Then the goal was a long ride of 5 hours with steady climbing. The ride formed a pyramid. 3k in The Quarry, then 5k up El Romel, then 15k up El Torcal and lastly a 17% grade climb called Peurto Del Barco aka Amellia Pukes Hill, because its so steep that one day an SLB athlete puked going up it (and just kept going). Christine Lynch aka the Holistic Guru rocked it and said to me during the ride: “You know whats awesome about Spain, every day you do the longest hardest climb of your life.” She is right. She has been keeping an AWESOME blog about the camp here www.holisticguru.blogspot.com
10k run with a 5k tempo.
Dude. youre insane.