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We had a few issues at the host center in Portland, OR aka Johnny Z‘s place. He’s replaced something or other and rebooted a few times and all seem stable now. Nothing was lost which is cool. That happened once, what a pain. Good thing Google caches everything!
Life has been a little busy lately. Namrita is still doing her clinical rotations at Grady Hospital, which means she’s gone all day. That leaves me here at home to tend to the dogs, laundry, groceries, dinner, etc. I don’t mind, it’s just time consuming. 55nine Performance is getting real busy. It’s the season for bike fits and it’s been a mild winter, so people are riding. Again no complaints. When I get a free moment I work on race proposals, my accounting, and personal sponsorship. Luckily Nam only has 2 and half weeks left and things will settle down a bit.
Training is good. I am doing long tempo rides a couple times a week and getting around 17-18 hours a week in. I’m right in the middle of a training block, so my legs are just starting to feel like lead. Next week will hurt. We are still going to the gym for upper body and core work as well. I need to figure out a good night for that. We tried Monday this week, but it’s so crowded. Wednesday would be good for me, but not Nam. Maybe when she finishes at Grady we can switch it up.
I’ve changed Namrita‘s training quite a bit from last year. She pretty much did what I did last year, but that didn’t work so well especially this tempo phase. She would do the tempo rides (if she had the energy), then go ride the SS the next day. I’d be on the gearie, so I could control my effort on the ‘off’ days, but with the SS you are at the mercy of the terrain. It’s hard going up and easy coming down and very little in between. All this added up to multiple hard days for her and not enough easy ones. This year I’m prescribing the hard efforts on the mtb or if the weather is bad a trainer workout that simulates riding the SS on a hilly course. This on the weekends we’ll gradually work up to riding in the mountains for the sustained climbs. This works out so that when I’m doing tempo she can do an easy road ride and when we ride the mtb during the week she can go hard. Now if the weather would just cooperate.
The exciting news of recent is that our modeling careers are really taking off. Namrita and I worked with Andrew Kornylak up in Ellijay on Saturday. We biked, we hiked, we loaded and unloaded our bikes about 100 times, we drank wine and ate BBQ, all so Andrew could photograph us. He’s working on National Geographic Adventure profile. We sported about as much Twin Six as possible, hopefully something is recognizable in the final cut. Then on Sunday we met Ken Gehle at Arabia Mountain for another shoot. This one was more choreographed. Ken is an advertisement guy and is working on portfolio to present to an agent working with REI. I hope he gets the account and calls us back. It was fun and pretty easy. Ride in circles for 30 minutes or so and that was it! Heck, we can do that all day. BTW – there is no mtb access at Arabia Mtn, which is a shame. It’s like the granite side of Conyers only bigger, much bigger.
We’ll post some prints when we get them.
Eddie O