Friday
Jan232009
::100KM BICYCLE RIDE::
Friday, January 23, 2009 
Camp Maui Multisport 2009 continues to go incredibly well. Training today was pretty wicked... I had a good swim this morning
(early! check the dark pool! triguys n gals are morning folk), about 2700yds of mostly 50yd sprints, then we did a 3hour bike ride which took 4hours. Check the map for all the places we visited, according 
to SQW's bicycle tricorder we climbed 3000m throughout the ride, and covered a total of 100km, on the money. That's a very far bicycle ride for me, 1km for every second that my 500m race takes, in a slight headwind. So, my legs are tired. We stopped at a banana bread stand which boasted the "best banana bread on the planet", so we devoured 2 loaves. Given our state of hunger, I don't think anyone was in a position to judge with a particularly worldly bananaloaf standard, so let's just leave it at, "certainly worth the trip to Kahakuloa, banana bread". The views were 
totally nuts; cliff top ocean vistas, switchback mountain tops, and eerily skinny roads made for a pretty spectacular ride. The top of Haleakala crater is at 10 000ft, about the same amount of climbing we did today, and it's a 100km round trip too... the most glaring and obvious difference between the two rides that ALL of the climbing is done at once, and it's much, much steeper up to the top of this volcano. Outside magazine ranks this climb as the world's best (didn't mention banana bread), and one of the 
hardest. The great Canadian tour rider (currently at the Tour of Australia), Ryder Hesjedal recently broke the record for it's ascent on a bicycle, awesome... we are considering attempting an ascent, at a much more civilized pace... perhaps including a few stops for a snack of triangle egg sandwich? Simon (and his wonderful family) and I are sharing Ryder's home here in Maui... so big thanks, and good luck in AUS Ryder! Yesterday included a good swim, a great 70min run with Lauren Groves, and a few laps of Kahalui Harbor in the surfski with the Queen of Maui, and OC-1 virtuoso, Lauren Spalding-Bartlett... tomorrow: more swimming, and some serious gym-time, before I lose 25lbs.
to SQW's bicycle tricorder we climbed 3000m throughout the ride, and covered a total of 100km, on the money. That's a very far bicycle ride for me, 1km for every second that my 500m race takes, in a slight headwind. So, my legs are tired. We stopped at a banana bread stand which boasted the "best banana bread on the planet", so we devoured 2 loaves. Given our state of hunger, I don't think anyone was in a position to judge with a particularly worldly bananaloaf standard, so let's just leave it at, "certainly worth the trip to Kahakuloa, banana bread". The views were 
totally nuts; cliff top ocean vistas, switchback mountain tops, and eerily skinny roads made for a pretty spectacular ride. The top of Haleakala crater is at 10 000ft, about the same amount of climbing we did today, and it's a 100km round trip too... the most glaring and obvious difference between the two rides that ALL of the climbing is done at once, and it's much, much steeper up to the top of this volcano. Outside magazine ranks this climb as the world's best (didn't mention banana bread), and one of the hardest. The great Canadian tour rider (currently at the Tour of Australia), Ryder Hesjedal recently broke the record for it's ascent on a bicycle, awesome... we are considering attempting an ascent, at a much more civilized pace... perhaps including a few stops for a snack of triangle egg sandwich? Simon (and his wonderful family) and I are sharing Ryder's home here in Maui... so big thanks, and good luck in AUS Ryder! Yesterday included a good swim, a great 70min run with Lauren Groves, and a few laps of Kahalui Harbor in the surfski with the Queen of Maui, and OC-1 virtuoso, Lauren Spalding-Bartlett... tomorrow: more swimming, and some serious gym-time, before I lose 25lbs. ...
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