currently I'm sitting at chipotle in Boulder killing time befor Jenny gets done with work and can go get coffee with me. I just got done with a 3 hour TT bike ride, by far the longest I've been on that bike this season so far. 3 hours is really about as long as I can "comfortably" be on that bike due to my aggressive aero position, which due to the wind and me being sick the last week I have still yet to test out. I gained a pretty good grasp on how powerful I can be in that position doing a few hard intervals up one of the canyons north of town today - let's just say I'm happy with the results. I'll have to wait for a couple more hours until I can look at the power file but every time I looked at it during a hard effort, I was actually pushing more watts than on my regular bike! (that's good for a lot of reasons...). Time trialing is all about the fastest balance of power and aerodynamics and trade offs have to be made, but I think I've found a pretty good balance already.

It was such a nice day up here, temps in the upper 50's, no wind hardly, sunny... Lindsay is skiing at Vail today with friends and I was pretty torn. It would have been a great day for both. I probably should have just gone up from work this morning and met up with them for a couple hours... I need to ski more, and I think the way me schedule will work out this month will allow me at lest 1 or 2 days per week to get up, it's been like 3 weeks since I've gone now.

I got my training plan for next month last night from Eric and it's going to be a sweet, but busy, hard month. Instead of a normal 3 week training block I'll be doing 4, and I'm starting to do a lot of higher end threshold type work along with hard, long climbing days, I'm psyched. Hopefully the weather cooperates for at lest the long days; it sucks bad to do a hard 4-5 hours sitting inside on a trainer. Part of what I really enjoy about cycling is doing long hard rides in the mountains. I love suffering and pushing myself to the limit in beautiful places!

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