Cheyne's Chronicles Part 2
We say goodbye to Cheyne with this last installment of his diary while at the Olympic Training Center. Cheyne is moving on a to http://www.skntcycling.com/ a U25 development team based out of NYC. Cheyne its been an honor to see you move from a Cat5, to the "Real Deal"
Wednesday August 15th
Today we went for a hilly ride in the morning on the northwest corner of the city. It was fairly relaxed except for when we went uphill. We covered around 30 miles by the end. Then in the afternoon we went to the 7 eleven velodrome which is only about 3 blocks from the Olympic training center. It's a nice outdoor concrete, 333 meter track. They gave us track bikes to use and we rode around, got comfortable, and learned the basics of track racing. When we got back to the training center we ate dinner and then watched films of world cup track racing. After that we had some free time so my roommates and I took on the three guys with the room across from us in fooseball. We had a little bit of a dorm room rivalry going on because they had deflated our tires and stole our pillows the day before.
Thursday August 16th
Today was a full day of track cycling. In the morning we all split into groups and pacelined on the track for like 2 hours. It was a lot of fun especially when we started rippin it. After pacelining the guys that lived across the hall challenged us to a team pursuit. We had 3 man teams and it was a 3K pursuit. We lost to the other guys by a mere second. After getting back to the training center we ate lunch and then discussed our power results from Tuesdays field tests. I did not produce to great of results in that. After that we had some free time and then later we went to the track because we were going to compete in the local Thursday night track races but they got rained out. It was unfortunate because I really wanted to give it a go on the track. I knew it was going to rain because it rained every single evening into the night the whole time I was in Colorado.
Today we went for a hilly ride in the morning on the northwest corner of the city. It was fairly relaxed except for when we went uphill. We covered around 30 miles by the end. Then in the afternoon we went to the 7 eleven velodrome which is only about 3 blocks from the Olympic training center. It's a nice outdoor concrete, 333 meter track. They gave us track bikes to use and we rode around, got comfortable, and learned the basics of track racing. When we got back to the training center we ate dinner and then watched films of world cup track racing. After that we had some free time so my roommates and I took on the three guys with the room across from us in fooseball. We had a little bit of a dorm room rivalry going on because they had deflated our tires and stole our pillows the day before.
Thursday August 16th
Today was a full day of track cycling. In the morning we all split into groups and pacelined on the track for like 2 hours. It was a lot of fun especially when we started rippin it. After pacelining the guys that lived across the hall challenged us to a team pursuit. We had 3 man teams and it was a 3K pursuit. We lost to the other guys by a mere second. After getting back to the training center we ate lunch and then discussed our power results from Tuesdays field tests. I did not produce to great of results in that. After that we had some free time and then later we went to the track because we were going to compete in the local Thursday night track races but they got rained out. It was unfortunate because I really wanted to give it a go on the track. I knew it was going to rain because it rained every single evening into the night the whole time I was in Colorado.
posted by taylor at 10/05/2007 06:59:00 PM
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