Training Log for the week of 5-13 thru 5-20

Post your training miles in the comments for this week and let us know how your riding is going Indiana Cure Chasers!

Training Log for the week of 5-6 thru 5-12

Tell us what you did Team!

We have a weekend Ride leaving from SWW at 7am Saturday morning, if  that is to early, let us know and we will loop back to pick up a second wave.

Some of our team is going to do the assault on Mount Mitchell on the 20th so we are doing some longer rides early to get ready!  This early season century has over 11,000 feet of elevation gain and finishes atop Mt Mitchell the highest point this side of the Mississippi!

Also, those of you planning to ride with the Cure Chaser Squad on the RAIN ride in July, it's not to early to start extending those miles.

But tell us what you did this week!

Sam and Michael

Blog Your Training

Hey Team

We know that all of you have busy schedules and often can not make it to any of the 3-4 team training sessions that we have every week.

I know for example, that Joel Pritchard (we miss you Joel) can not drive over from Illinois every week any more than Steve Lewis can drive up from Kentucky (nice to ride with your Saturday BTW Steve!)

I also know that you all realize that you need to train in order to meet your goals at your destination (for you national riders) and your goals for the season (for our state supporting team) and former riders, (because we know you still love us).  So what Sam and I would like to do is offer you a way to share your training with your team mates on a regular basis.

• This will help to keep you accountable for your training, give you an opportunity to log your miles/activity and encourage your team mates while staying a bit more connected.

• This also will give us the added benefit of looking for trends and opportunities that may help us to train together as the larger team on a more regular basis.

• In addition, you can share the blog on Facebook, with your friends and family, to use all of the teams experience and efforts to garner more support for your ride.  Gary Martindale always writes a really nice summary of his experience in Death Valley and shares that with his supporters. 

You can start the daily training blog if you are first on with a title like...

Training Tuesday 4-30-13 Blue Tuesday Hills

Did 32 miles to the top of observatory and back, my crazy team members talked me into riding the big hill 3 times.  You bet it hurt, but I am so glad that I did it!

Or

Wednesday Training 5-1-13

Trained by myself today, rode 10 miles through housing additions and on bike paths at a leisurely pace.  Got to see some real neat houses and got chased by a rabbit and a squirrel.  This brings my total miles to the season to 100!

These are just a couple of examples

You can also just post replys after the initial thread is started for the day so that we can see what our team mates are doing and thinking in preparation for their various rides.

You guys are a great team, let's let the rest of the world know just how great and make the Indiana Cure Chasers the team everyone wants to be on!

Another Blue Tuesday!

16 people turned out for Blue Tuesday this week that included former destination riders, Ted Schutzbank from the Southwestern Ohio JDRF team, old friends, number of new riders along with Veteran riders Gary Martindale, Kevin Garner, Jay Hancock and Richard Shevitz. and of course Sam Scahill and myself.  A great turnout and ride for the Cure Chasers.

The weather was perfect in the high 70s and just a little bit of wind to combat.  We left SWW at 6pm sharp and quickly segregated into multiple pace groups with various target mileage in mind.

 

The slowest group is currently slated to turn around at 1 hour out and last night we did 24 miles with that group!  Not to bad for relatively new riders and the hill profile that our route presents.

 

The fastest and upper middle group made it all the way to the top of Observatory and back with in a 2 hour and 15 minute time span, with a distance of 32 miles.  So the distances I heard at the end of the night were 3 - 24 - 29  and 32, plus we all got back to SWW at about the same time!  Great job team and team leaders!

 

Our next planned group ride is this Thursday leaving from Performance South at 6pm sharp and will be mostly rolling hills at about 28 miles.  Looks like the weather will be great!

If you can't make it south, you can join Gary Martindale at the Nebo Ridge ride and pick your pace.  That ride starts at 6pm at the Nebo Ridge Bicycle shop and distances are 17 - 35 miles depending on which group you ride with.

If you happen to be running the Mini this weekend, be sure to stop by the JDRF booth at the Expo and say hello!  Amy, Sam and I will be working it along with Rebecca and Katie from the JDRF office!  We'd love to see you!

It's Been Great Riding Weather....... For March

 

 

We did our first scheduled ride out of Performance Bike in Greenwood last Thursday and it was really a fun ride in spite of heavy rain. Six of us left the shop at 6pm and headed south through Johnson and Morgan counties to inaugurate our new Thursday south side route, with cloudy almost threatening skies, warm weather and most of us with rain jackets on,,,, just in case.

We made it almost a half mile down the road before the clouds dumped  on us and inaugurated some of us in rule #9 The Rules because we got wet!

 

A good place to point out Sam's reminder on this week's email to make sure that you have at least a working tail light on your bikes every time we go out as Spring weather is unpredictable and at this point in the season a delay could put us home after dark.

 

Saturday Morning, we left SWW Park at 7am for a 50 mile odyssey into Morgan county, AKA our way past Wilbur route, this time in search of a hill called "The Wall".
It was a brisk morning with the start temperatures hovering in the low 30s but we threw some chemical toe warmers in our shoes and headed out.  I soon discovered that I had overdressed and had to tie my jacket around my waist to keep from sweating up a storm and being as wet as I had been on Thursday.  Everyone else seemed to be ok, I could have been so hot because I had the most fat :)

We crossed State Road 144 and made our first discovery that the flooding we had been hearing so much about was going to affect our ride.
So we altered our route and headed west up Kitchen hill, which I think all of us agree is the equivalent of Centenary without the traffic.

An hour in we were at the base of Observatory hill and made our first Category 5 climb of the day.
 (a note for those of you on the team who are riding Nashville and Death Valley, even though there is not anything quite as steep as these hills on those routes, anyone who has spent a summer doing these climbs and completed for example, the Jubilee pass climb will agree that this is great preparation both in fitness and mentally for a long Cat 2 climb like that)

We had 4 Catagorized climbs in total and numerous difficult climbs besides.
On the way back we decided to ride up SR67 on the shoulder to the base of Observatory as our planned route back was flooded and closed.  We won't be doing that again, simply because the shoulder is littered with trash and we respect our tires to much to put them through that again.

When we got to the top, Sam and I could not resist taking one more trip to the top of Observatory before heading back to SWW.  It was a fun albeit cold day!!

We had planned to come straight back on Mann all the way, but when we got to Fox Hill, the group decided that we had not yet climbed enough so we took a little detour to the top of Fox Hill and came on home that way.  By this time the temp had climbed to a balmy 49 (still felt like the 30s :)) but we were all still relatively comfortable.

All in all a great ride and we are planning on doing it again this next Saturday as one of our team members from Kentucky (Steve Lewis) will be visiting for the JDRF Gala that is this Saturday also!

Come out and join us, you can find the route from last week HERE !!

I hope to see you on Saturday!
Michael

Good afternoon Indiana Cure Chasers,  We had a great turnout to all of the rides last week as we were 50/50 with 2 rides on the road and 2 indoor training sessions.  Looking ahead for this week, the weather does not look promising so please be on the look out for a last minute change to an indoor training session if necessary.

Below are our opportunities to ride this week:
Tuesday, 4/16/13  - Blue Tuesday, 30 - 36 miles with challenging hills.  Bikes mounted and rolling out at 6:00 PM from Southwestway park 8400 Mann Rd, Indianapolis, IN 46221.  We will be leaving out of the parking lot located on the west side of Mann Rd. near the soccer fields.

Thursday, 4/18/13 - 32 - 40 flat miles at a faster pace.  Bikes mounted and rolling out at 6:00 PM from Performance South Bike shop parking lot. 8830 US 31 South, Across from the Greenwood Shopping Center, Greenwood, IN 46227

6:00 PM 27 - 30+ flat miles. CIBA sponsored ride from Nebo Ridge Bicycles 4355 W 106th St, Carmel, IN.  A, B, and C groups leave together according to estimated pace.  Wear your blue jerseys, meet and ride with Gary Martindale and other Indiana Cure Chasers.

Saturday, 4/20/13 - 45 - 50+ miles - hilly, moderate pace, endurance ride. Location: Southwestway park 8400 Mann Rd, Indianapolis, IN 46221.  We will be leaving out of the parking lot located on the west side of Mann Rd. near the soccer fields.  This will be an extended version of our Blue Tuesday ride and will include several challenging hills in addition to the ones we see on Tuesdays.  Departure time TBD based on the weather.  Will send more details towards the end of the week.

Sunday, 4/21/13 - 40 - 45 miles - flat, fast, endurance ride.  Afternoon departure from the north side.  Bikes mounted and rolling out at 12:00 PM from Coxhall Gardens, 2000 W 116th St  Carmel, IN 46032.

Make sure you have the following items:

• bike
• helmet
• 2 water bottles with your favorite sports drink
• nutrition (Gu or energy bars)
• tire change kit
• Bike Face!

Have a good week!

Hello All,  Just wanted to send a quick update about our rides planned for this weekend:

Saturday - Sam will lead an indoor training ride 10 - 11:30 AM at Performance South bike store, 8830 US 31 South, Across from the Greenwood Shopping Center, Greenwood, IN 46227.  Just a reminder that Performance does have some limited trainers available to use but please bring your own if you have one and don't forget your bike ;o).

Sunday - Michael will lead a 40 - 45 miles - endurance ride on the road.  Bikes mounted and rolling out at 12:00 PM from Coxhall Gardens, 2000 W 116th St  Carmel, IN 46032.

That's all for now!  Have a good weekend!