John K Scott’s Training Blog

Ok. It’s been a while since I posted. Well, that’s because I haven’t had a lot to post about. Seems like after the Harpeth River Ride on 6/12 (more on that below) I picked up some kind of stomach bug and haven’t been feeling well. Without going into TOO many details, I was going through [...]

Giving Lance The Look

So, after my 72 mile ride on Saturday, I decided to take Monday & Tuesday off just to let my TSB (low number means high fatigue) come back up a bit. Last year I pulled out of this ride at about 80 miles in with heat exhaustion. Guess what. Tomorrow’s forecast [...]

Friday was nothing unusual. 69 minute training ride with climb up Lynnwood way thrown in. Did it slightly faster than the prior two times with 3 bpm less avg heart rate. A sign of some fitness coming back? Maybe. Was trying to keep the pace in the endurance zone for the most part and succeeded.

21.13 [...]

Rode Saturday, raced Sunday (and worked the race the whole day) and rode Monday. Plus spending a lot of family time so I haven’t had a great chance to update since Friday.

Saturday morning I headed out just about 90 minutes at a moderate pace nothing exciting. Didn’t want to kill myself as I was going [...]