AVS Cycling Camp

Asheville Velosports Women's Cycling Camp
Clemson 2006

Day #1: Assessments 4.5 mile time trial
Day #2: Criterium in the morning, Kermesse in the afternoon
Day #3: Long effort and climbing skills up to Ceasers Head
Day #4: Road skills and Pace lines
Day #5: Circuit race, camp completed

Great instructors including former racing pro Kurt Begemann.
This camp was well worth the time and money.
I learned so much and am very grateful for the opportunity to have been there.
I would definitely do this again.

YMCA Sprint Triathlon

This was my first Tri since my ACL injury Feb. 7
My knee felt great and gave me no problems... I am just out of practice from lack of training during this recovering time.
I started my swim too fast and went into oxygen debt... then I could not seem to get into my rhythm.
The bike felt great but my legs were tired from just coming off of a week of cycling camp.
This was the first run I have done since January and I was way slow.
It was a great practice to gage my performance and see what I need to work on.

60 to Georgia

Had an awesome 60 mile ride to Tocca, Georgia. The weather was fabulous. We stopped at the Tocca Java Station for lunch and cool drinks.

The Assualt on the Carolinas

Awesome 65 miles up to the top of Ceasars Head Mountain. Lots of climbing and downhills.
One hill... Hickory Nut Gorge had a 17% grade. Yeah Baby!! It was cold but we had fun.

This was a great start to the 2006 biking season.

Trying out this new performancing extention to Firefox

This is a test blog to see how this feature intergrates with blogger.
I think I am going to like this.

Easy Saturday

Taking it easy today....my muscles are sore from the ride yesterday but it feels so awesome that they do hurt because that means they are getting stronger!!

52 Mile Ride

Had an awesome ride today.... got in some hills...rode down to the lake...stopped for coffee and a muffin and enjoyed the beautiful weather all with my best buddy Dawg. (not pictured)

kaboodle

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I've been using Kaboodle for online shopping and for collecting things as I research on the web. It's a great service and is completely free. Go to http://www.kaboodle.com and check it out.

Knee Therapy Session #2

Had my second therapy session today.

The first one I went to I had on my workout shorts, shirt and running shoes but all we did was little movements of contracting the quads or hams and then relaxing. Simple stuff that you could do just laying in a bed.

So I went there today thinking we will not do much I will just wear my jeans, shirt and casual shoes.

It turned out I was out of breath and had worked up a sweat. It was really good but I was suprised I would get a good workout. One of things I really had fun with was this balancing board that you stand on and try to balance it while you are doing knee sqauts. It was cool because you have to tense every muscle in your body to stay balanced...even my abs got a workout. I would not mind having one of those boards to train with regularly.

I have two more sessions next week.

This is my homework:

Shotguns on steps 5-10 15 sec. intervals 2xday

Stepup/downs 3 sets 10 2xday

Lunges 3 sets 10 2xday

Straight leg raises 3 sets 15 2xday.

Keifer Sutherland

  

Attitude

ATTITUDE
by Charles Swindoll

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home.

The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude...

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.

Put your Lance Face On

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Cat's Southern Cycling Community

I set up a cycling community on my Website. I don't know if I will have much response to it but I will wait and see. If It does not go over well I will just take it down.
I just like to try to new thing every now and then.

My Favorite Quote

I love this quote from the first time I heard it. I changed it just a little but it come from the movie "Batman Returns" In the movie Batman says, "It is not who I am underneath...but what I do that defines me." For me I say "It is not who I am... but what I do that defines me."
There can be a lot of meaning in those few simple words if you think about it.

Mt. Mitchell

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This is a century ride that starts in Spartanburg SC and goes through the Blue Ridge Parkway to Mt. Mitchell NC. Since only so many cyclist are allowed on the Parkway at one time there is a cap for how many are able to register for this ride. The registration began at 4:00 PM and was all filled by 5:53 PM. I am IN.

knee pain, knee injury, knee surgery

KNEEguru
This is a very informative site about Knees. I am currently waiting for an MRI scan to show what type of knee injury I have. I hope I do not have to have surgery.

basketball vid clip

Share Video at DropShots.com
This is an old clip of me playing basketball in High School. Those were the days...

Dropshots is a great site and will allow you to upload a certain number of videos and pictures for free. If you want unlimited there is a $5 fee per month. I just stick to the free one for now.

I have knee joint effusion

joint effusion - General Practice Notebook

I hope this heals soon so I can get back to trainning.

Triathlon Training Logs

BeginnerTriathlete.com - Triathlon Training for Beginners
If you are a Triathlete then you will love this site. You can set up your trainning log, be apart of a tri community and get valuable information.