8.5.17 Super Saturday!

Hello! 75' ride on the trainer, with 3 x 5' at goal thrown in the middle. By this time next week, I'll be resting.

0645: 12 mile easy recovery ride. I've been having some tightness in my left IT Band, so I wanted an easy ride follow by lots of good stretching. I'm feeling tons better now!!!

Horrible weather here today--torrential rain every few hours interspersed with light drizzle; streets flooded. 3:30 trainer ride, watching videos of scenic rides in France and Italy and trying to convince myself I was actually riding there.

For anyone desperate enough to need to do a 3-4+ hour trainer ride, my video drugs of choice are the channels HD Cycling (happy German cycle club rides mostly scenic European routes to steady 90 BPM thump of techno music--you even get to enjoy the occasional "beer stop") and Bike the World (Go-Pro footage of scenic rides of over Europe, BYO music. Some of the videos on both channels are 2 hours or even a bit longer. Just discovered a new bunch of videos--check out Billy Yang's movies of the Western States 100 Mile and other ultra events. Great trail running pron and very artfully done.

(To clarify--I am not and will probably never be an ultra runner. My only forays beyond 26.2 have been a couple of non-competitive trail runs in the 50K range, and a DIY 60K-ish outing--mix of roads and trails--in my early 20's. I would never want to run 100 miles, or probably even 50 miles, at a stretch, but would love to do that course over maybe 10 days! But those are great films and might make nice trainer or treadmill entertainment.)

30 mile bike ride. Great to get out and ride after sitting in a training class room all week