May 2009
Final Training Update and reaching the summit of training
With the fund raising all done and the start of the ride is exactly one week away, i am relaxing from the most ambitious ride of my training. We did the 'three bears', with about 1000 ft in elevation change and then headed over to Mt Diablo for another 4000 st climb. It was billed as an 81 [...]
my first century
_at the start of the ride, photo by lovely wife This past sunday, i did my first 100 mile ride and it all started with some chilly rain! I was fairly nervous to begin with never having done more than 50 odd miles in one sitting and the rain added more to the adrenaline. Luckily, the rain ended [...]
April 2009
Training update 4
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 [...]
February 2009
Training update 3
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 [...]
January 2009
Training update 2
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 [...]
Training begins.
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 [...]
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