Sunday morning Church of Pain training ride…

Ride Cancelled because of Cold

If I learned anything in my first year of racing, I learned that the race is usually won on the hills. I raced in about 5 races last year and was dropped off the back of the peloton in every one of them on a hill, except one, where I bonked at mile 95 for lack of carbs and fluids. So my goal this year is to improve my climbing. Nothing felt worse than to see the peloton slip away as I was gasping for air, and feeling the painful effects of lactic acid overload through out my body. So I am going to have to make some changes to achieve my goal. For one thing, I will need to get my weight under my last year low of 189. Secondly, if I can keep from getting laid off, I will need to purchase some lighter wheels from our new wheel sponsor Williams Wheels. Lastly, I will need to do some hard hill intervals. So if there are any gluttons for pain and improvement, I will be doing a Sunday morning boot camp of hill intervals on March 8th, at 9:00 AM. Check your clocks because I believe its day light savings time that day. This is not for the faint of heart or really out of shape. This one is going to hurt. We will meet at the top of the hill at the corner of 2300 E. Bengal blvd.(approx. 7600 S.). We will do about a 2.40 mile loop as a warm up and then hit the hill hard. At the top we will go slow, regroup, and try to recover as we go around the loop again. I plan on doing it 6 times. You get extra points if you throw up at the top. If you have any health problems or are not in really good shape, then you can do the interval a lot slower. The total mileage will be about 14 miles. If there are any ride leaders who are going to come could you try and get it put on the calendar. Thanks.

2009 East canyon road race details

The 2009 East canyon road race details are available at http://www.sports-am.com/events/index575.htm. This is the second race on the team's official list.

Personally, this was a 55-ish mile individual time trial last year. Don't do that.

Team meeting Feb 18th (RSVP)

We will have a team meeting Wednesday, Feb 18th at 7pm at Rocky Mountain Pizza. Our sponsor Capital Confidence Advisors is kicking in for some pizza and soda, thanks Todd!!! (No buffet this time, we are going end by 8:30.) Yes, I knows this conflicts with the In-n-Out Burger Road Trip, we did the best we could to balance time for everyone to make room in their schedule for this meeting, with the need to get the team kit order processed for delivery by East Canyon RR.




Please RSVP to (JTodd.Anderson "at" lfg.com) if you can make it to the team meeting, we are trying to plan for the food. Thanks in advance.


Rocky Mountain Pizza Company
3977 South Wasatch Blvd
Salt Lake City, UT 84124
(801) 272-9888

The shorter topic is collecting your information and orders for team kits. More information on this to come from Randy Miller who has graciously become not only the Fashion Guru but also the Recording Secretary to collect all our info, and the Treasurer to collect all our dues and also handle the money for the team kits. Thanks, Randy !!! Randy will be sending out kit info by email, PLAN TO ORDER kits by this meeting if you need them.

The longer topic is training. The Lactic Acid Gang met yesterday at Todd’s office, finalized our approach to training this year. Thanks, Bill and Elton !!! Bill will present our outline for training this year, which involves the topics of lactate threshold and power testing, heart rate monitors and power meters, heart rate zones, using SuperSeries rides and weekly rides for specific training goals, coaching, and peaking for various races. :-)