Did the Big Bear ride with the Broadcom team this weekend, and these guys make it so humbling. Just when I think I'm pretty trained up, I'm shown just how much more I need to keep going. Just about everyone had turned it up in the beginning, and it's amazing how they can push so hard and have enough to finish. I really wanted to manage my pace to limit the time at the stops, but it was hard to do so when everyone was pushing the pace early on. I didn't do too bad getting to the top just behind the monster, Shannon, but having cramped after really bummed me out. I really need to figure this out before we do the Death Ride.
As for my nutrition, I never really felt hungry at all during the ride. My loading up since Thursday seemed to help a lot. I'm not sure the beer I had the night before had anything to do with the cramp, but maybe I probably could have still drank more water beforehand. For the ride, what I had was 3 waffles, 2 packages of Shot Bloks, 2 Honey stingers and 1 Zipvit. I also had 4-5 bottles of electrolytes. I would have kept drinking more, especially on the climb up to Onyx. However, I'm not sure what was going on but every time I took a drink on that climb up, I would get a little dizzy. I wonder if that had anything to do with the lack of oxygen up there.
The beerfest after the ride was ridiculous. I'm not sure why I drank as much as I did, but it was definitely not good for me. I wasn't able to eat again until around 11 PM, so I probably absorbed more alcohol in my system as a result. I felt sick up through yesterday, so I probably won't be doing that any time soon. I did eat a little more freely yesterday to take a break from my diet for another day, but today, I'm back on the healthy wagon.
Today, I trained my chest this morning and did push a little harder to kick off my reset (meaning the training starts for the next ride). I also kicked it up a notch from all the crap I was talking regarding crits from the liquid bravery. I know most of it was just talk, but I do want to help the team do well on our next outing. I even kicked up my core training by increasing the weight for my lower back. I realize my lower back strength still could use some improvement given how tired it had gotten from the climbing, so I hope the added weight helps.
For lunch, I would like to ride again but will just save it for tomorrow. I'll do some elliptical work instead and try to sweat out some more of the weekend's alcohol.
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