Marin Headlands downhill from Jack Huynh on Vimeo.

April was not good for training at all. i was gone for a week at spirit rock on a silent retreat. there’s plenty of good excuses that prevent me from logging more than a few hundred miles in april. still, last weekend i did 62 miles on a organized race and felt pretty good most of the time. the legs were watery the next day but some hot spa action […]

Training Loop from Jack Huynh on Vimeo.

The last few weeks have been not as productive with all the rain in the bay area. Still, i’ve been able to sneak short rides in here and there. the average ride is probably about 23 miles or something. I did establish a couple of standard routes, one for more hill training and the other is just flat training. the video is part of my hill training where i go through the montclair area of […]

January is coming to an end and i’ve made some good progress on training and fundraising. i logged 160 miles on the road bike in the last 30 days and have gone to the gym 2-4 times a week for cross training. undoubtedly, i suspect it will be my healthiest year in over 15 years! i tried working on the gut a bit but the sit ups where pretty painful, still, i think that type of exercise just needs some better pacing!

On the fundraising front, i’ve reached 25% of my $3500 goal. i am slightly surprised that […]

I got on my bike a week or two before the end of 2008 and i remembered how great it felt to be on the bike. After not thinking too much about doing the Aids Ride (knowing that thinking about it too much would just lead to not doing it), i embarked on the training program by joining the local gym and team alameda. I did my first two group rides this weekend. The first was very fairly easy, 17 miles around the island. The second ride broke me hard. Maybe I got schooled because i didn’t […]