Mid week Training

Yesterday was a good high intensity day of training. I drove out to Sedro Woolley to ride the "Woolley Cross" race course at the park just outside of town. A great race was put on out there last year around the delapitated dairy farm (it has to be haunted with ghost cows) and now the entire area has been turned into a beautiful park.
What was also cool, is that the parks department (or someone) actually has the 'cross course mowed and marked! Holy cow, that's cool! I started off with a couple of laps just warming up to get the muscles going. After that I began to hit it harder and harder every lap for one hour, with the last 30 minutes at full race pace. With "Woolley Cross" being so bumpy and dragging because of all of the boggy turf, you are forced to push a big gear just to not get beat up. Though this hurts, it's great for lactic acid threshold building. A couple of great run ups, and a long false flat made for one heck of a workout. I felt good and was finding good rythm, and it started getting me fired up as a David Lee Roth was yelling into my ears to "Jump"! Last year I really enjoyed this course and venue, and now I'm really looking forward to racing here again this year on November 22nd. I want to do well here and I think I can on this course. I will be putting some focus on this race.

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