Interval Training

Coach Dan has been nice enough to check in on me the last few weeks to see how my training is going.  I know the coaches have talked to each other about making sure I am ready for this ride.  Since I am so much further North than them, it's been hard to join in some of the group training rides.  God bless Coach Dan that he offered to come up my way to ride with me one night this week to see how I'm doing.

We've talked interval training.  I'm not happy with my overall average speed and was hoping that if I tried intervals that it would help improve my speed.  We were both able to take off work a little early and decided to meet about half way in Jackson Center to ride.  We both like to have head wind first, but we really didn't have a choice because riding North was the best option for us.  Heading out, we had a little warm up, then started out with a 1 minute sprint with a 2 minute rest.  After the second set he took pity on me and adjusted our times to 30 second sprint with a 2 minute rest. I've decided that I'm not a fan of intervals, but I need to buckle down and do them!

We went about 12 miles out and started coming back, but the head wind hit us and was horrible!  It's funny to see your speed go from 20-26 mph clear down to struggling to maintain 10 mph! On our way back we saw a love seat that was dumped right beside a wheat field and since we are both photographers, we had to laugh and joke about what a great picture that would be!  Well, what the heck... let's stop!!! How can you resist a photo op like this?!

Coach Dan was pretty impressed with the area.  It is definitely different from the urban area of Cinci and Dayton, and a nice little change of pace!  We are hoping to get others up this way for a ride some time soon so that I can show off my neck of the woods!  I can't thank Dan enough for taking the time to make the trek up here!  It really goes to show that these JDRF coaches care about the riders and are willing to make sure they are prepared for these rides!