We started our way at the Carlsbad Pointsettia Train Station. It was a new location to me but I remember riding by this train station so many times now on the last couple of rides we have had. Now we are starting here. I didn’t know much of the terrain at all on this ride. I remember seeing so many new things and sites I did enjoy on the ride.

We headed south for a small distance to go to the restrooms at the nearest Jack in a Box and talked a little before we took our morning ride. It is funny sometimes how we always seem to be the last group to leave but in the end we are always first. We followed Avenida Encinitas till we hit Carlsbad Blvd.

Onto Carlsbad Blvd and we headed north for a quite a distance and followed into S. Pacific Street. We then got onto the San Luis River trail that seemed like a large bike and running path that was single lane and had traffic coming both ways. There were a lot of people on this pathway. I liked it though. It gave a new scenery to look at and it proved a little tough with the headwind we were experiencing here. We did do a lot of changing here on the front. This pathway followed the 78 freeway east and we took this for a good distance till we got to College Blvd and made our way to N. River Road.

N. River Road was a different road. It seemed similar to roads in Rancho Santa Fe. There was a lot of rolling hills here. I remember going up and down a good amount of them. We followed it to Mission Rd and then back onto Old River Road and then to McDonalds where our SAG was stationed at. We met with the Ace Team riders. We were in Bonsal, I didn’t know of this area at all. It seems that doing all this training is great and has many new sights to see around San Diego.

After the SAG, I asked about our new path. We were going to be doing some climbing. I decided to keep a mindset of taking it easy on the hills so that I wouldn’t get an overall burning in my legs. I had to keep my heart rate down. We headed onto W Lilac Road and it proved to be a tough hill with different grades. At the top it intersected the 15 freeway on a bridge that I seem to drive by on the way to Temecula. I always wondered how to get onto it and now I know.

We took a break at the top and then rode down onto Old Highway 395. We were screaming down this hill at 40 mph max. As this road connects into Champagne Blvd, I knew I was in for it. This climb was a steady grade that was something around 3 miles long. I think it took me around 15 minutes to get to the top where we had another SAG. I was tired. I am glad the weather was nice or it would have been worse. We had a long rest and waited for one of the other team mates as he was having a hard time that day.

We eventually got going again and left him at the SAG and continued our way west again through Deer Springs Road. We continued our way through N. Twin Oaks Valley Road and followed that as we crossed the 78 freeway. We made our way and got onto W San Marcos Blvd. and continued to head west and get back to the coast. This area was nice. It was just some rolling hills and we got to our last sag with about 10 miles left next to a Carls Jr.

We followed San Marcos Blvd. till it intersected with El Camino Real and followed that and then we got onto Cannon Road where we saw our last hill of the day. It wasn’t too long of a hill but it proved to be steep and tough. I was burning my legs at the top with some standing and I knew that we were almost home. We crossed the 5 freeway and got back onto Avenida Encinas and got to the parking lot. It was a tough day.

I know now that I will be prepared next week for the ride. I know it will be tough but with some riding I will do this week, hopefully I can do better.

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I had spin class on Thursday. I kinda want to start riding more this week so that I can get more into shape. I feel that I can’t keep up with the group sometimes especially on the hills. I just too tired and my heart rate just goes up and then I get burned out. I do fine on the smaller hills and inclines but when it comes to some serious climbing, I just get burned. I think I need to mix in some strength and speed intervals to help with that.

The ride was nice though. I wish I could have ridden like that in a group. I wish I had a group of friends that I could ride with. There is still a lot to learn from all the riding and its good that I have a great group that I am doing this with. I think I almost enjoy it more than running. It may take a lot longer but the fun is there. I feel a little bit more connected with this group than the run group. It seems like I will never be with a group like this anywhere. Maybe or maybe not.

I forgot my heart rate monitor at home. I wish I brought it. I think I probably burned about 400 more calories than the previous week.

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The class started off slow but it still gets tougher. I think because I push myself harder and they make it a little tougher every time. I managed to burn over 700 calories and I feel ok at the end. I always have issues during the ILT. I get the burn in my upper thighs there. I think doing some AB Ripper X will help in that department.

The time change has been good. I like it. It has started to get warmer now. I think because spring is here.

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My and gf did an Insanity workout yesterday, Plyometric Cardio Circuit. That was tough. I am feeling sore but liking it a lot.

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We decided on a distance of two miles since she is comfortable with that distance. So we took off right when we got outside. My calves were already sore form the 2 previous days of cycling and snowboarding. I knew that I didn’t want to go out fast anyways.

We were running at a moderate pace of around 15 min/mile. She did well and it was nice. I am glad that the route isn’t too crazy but it is a nice run. We run along side the road though with the cars. It gives us something to see. I would rather not though. We did some part in the beginning in the neighborhood before getting out to the main road.

We finished around Palomar Hospital and then came back. It was good!

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I might need to get the seat at the correct angle and position. I hate to change anything on my bike because it might always change my cycling. It was crazy at the spin class because it seemed like everyone was there. We had about 30 or so people in the intermediate class and about 20 people in the advanced class.

I ended up going to trek after the spin class to get me some new livestrong bands and also to look around. I also picked up some chamous butter. I wonder if it might help at all. We will see!

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I think my watch is off also. My update to my garmin website shows my workout as being on January 25th. I also want to buy some new shorts. I looked at some shorts over at bicycle warehouse where we had the spin class. They cost over $100. I don’t understand the price sometimes. I want to look around but I guess I don’t have much time.

I need new batteries for my cycle computer. I need to replace all three so that they are just in brand new working condition. I needed the cadence during the spin class most of all because it helped for everything because the instructor was yelling out speeds to follow and I was stuck trying to watch the guy next to me or the instructor to follow the speed he was yelling out.

I never knew how tough it was to maintain some of the speeds, especially the ones in the 100s. We did several different ones like that where he would start at 60 rpm and increments of 5 all the way up to 100.

One of the new ones that we did was the ILT (Individual Leg Training) or SLT (Single Leg Training). That really felt weird and I never knew a lot of things in spin class that they talked about. Pulling on the upstroke versus always pushing downstroke really helps the muscles and the leg strain. I guess the pulling is really helpful when going up hill and it will make the hills a lot easier than to push.

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The workout was easier than I expected. I don’t know what will be for tomorrow though. The reps really do go up. I did rest a lot between sets so I don’t know if that might have helped also. I think it was over 120 seconds between sets. The last set was tough but I slowly got the last 10 in. I guess we will see what happens next time for tomorrow on the new workout. Hopefully it won’t be so tough and I can finish the last set.

workout: 20,25,15,15,25
actual: 20,25,15,15,30

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It was a little cold this morning but not so much. I got there a little early but not so early. I joined in conversation with some folks but not many. My coach Ken talked to me and thought I had called him talking about an injury that I had but it wasn’t me that actually called him.

We went into our normal talks and had one of the guys that I have been running with all season do the mission statement. I had found out that he had cancer and survived along with his wife. Wow, that really hit me hard. I never knew.

The run started out fine. I was going ok with the C team and definitely felt tough within the first three miles. By mile 6, I had already slowed down because the C team was going close to an 8 minute pace which was a 10k pace for me. I knew my fitness has been going a little soft. I felt that I should be training more and doing what I could. I need to pick it up here for the last two week before I die at the end of the marathon.

I still am having issues with my callous. I tried running a little bit on my heels to take the initial impact off of my feet and it felt a little different. The only thing I noticed was my right leg feeling more sore in some way. I feel that lifting my leg is a little bit more tough.

The route would probably be described as a little weird. I never ran this route but I have done parts of it. I felt like the last 3 miles were crazy, just in the fact that I thought I was getting lost. The map itself was good and it made for a great run. It was a little shy of the 12 that I was supposed to do.

At the end of the run we had our last meeting really. We talked about the race and what we need to do. It was a nice rest for the day and it started to warm up then cool down but good nonetheless. Next week we have about an 8 mile run to finish off the running.

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