Todde's Tri Blog

after today's ride my legs are trashed. today was 95mile ride to perdenales falls near johnson city and then finished up with some loops on south mopac for a total ride of 5:40. the main goal today was to keep my ass in the saddle for 5.5hrs. mission accomplished!!!! now my legs are completely dead from all the hills thru austin, into dripping spings, and out to the falls. the ride itself was awesome. the roads are paved really well and the traffic is limited. you ride along fitzhughs road which run parallel to 290. its all farm roads with nonstop rolling hills. the hills varied with some long monsters mixed thru out. they get worse the closer you get to john city. my legs were already worn from weights on fri and a 2hr ride yesterday so today put them over the top. a good sign was that they felt somewhat better once i was back in austin and hit south mopac and once i was off the bike they werent too bad. i ended up drinking 2 24oz bottles on infiniti that had 1.75 servings in each. i worked then first with a gel and a powerbar. once they were gone i had 2.5 24oz bottles on water with 3 more gels and another powerbar. total calories were 1850 for the ride. this is close to what i will do for AZ but i may go with some more infinit or 2 more gels and drop 1 of the powerbars. overall the ride was a good way to end the major part of my training and head into the taper knowing i am pretty well prepared. if i can get this strained shin muscle under control i should be looking at a strong race in 3 weeks.