{"id":1517,"date":"2010-09-06T16:32:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T22:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2010-09-06T17:02:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T23:02:20","slug":"back-side-of-carter-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/2010\/09\/06\/back-side-of-carter-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Back side of Carter Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garmin Data: http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/47924681<\/a><\/p>\n

Today was a short but intense ride. My neighbor, Sara, set a ferocious pace and I decided I’d do my best to hang on! The route itself has its challenges, but add to that 25-35 mph winds — we had a REAL ride on our hands!\u00a0 There was a brief stretch where I had flash backs to the infamous 21 mile northbound segment of nasty headwinds on the ABB ride.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I got Sara an ABB jersey for her birthday — looks good on her and she’d fit right in. Hope that she’s able to wear it as a tour rider someday.<\/p>\n

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Sara wanted to do the Carter Lake loop in reverse — which meant going up a half to three-quarter mile climb with a grade of 10%-14%. Sara got a good jump on me at the bottom of the climb and I spent the rest of the time reeling her back in. It actually felt good. I watched my heart-rate rise and top out at 162. For me that’s pretty high. But, I didn’t feel like I was out of gas and I honestly think I could have either maintained this level of intensity or even increased it if I needed to. No Lance-like sprint to leave Jan Ulrich behind, but it did have that feel to it.<\/p>\n

Having said that, after a short level spot where both Sara and I managed a slight recovery from the climb, there is another (much shorter) steep climb. This time when I dug deep and tried to attack the climb, my legs weren’t having any of it. Apparently, there was quite a bit of lactic acid built up by my earlier effort that had not cleared my bloodstream yet! So, I took my time and met Sara at the top!<\/p>\n

The ride home from Carter Lake was still windy, but more of a cross wind than a head wind. When we were heading directly away from the foothills we felt a mighty push! As we neared home, I told Sara that had she not gone on the ride, I either 1) would have turned around at the end of my driveway and never gone, or 2) turned around long before we got to the steep Carter Lake climb. Funny — she said that she would have done the same!\u00a0 I’m glad we went — this will be a ride I refer to in the future because of its wind and the effort we both put into finishing strong inspite of it.<\/p>\n

When we got home, the sky south and west of our farm was filled with smoke. There is a HUGE fire burning in the foothills west of Boulder. The fire is centered right where Beth Laber and I rode on Saturday! Very scary! This shot was taken at about 12:30pm from our farm.<\/p>\n

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Garmin Data: http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/47924681 Today was a short but intense ride. My neighbor, Sara, set a ferocious pace and I decided I’d do my best to hang on! The route itself has its challenges, but add to that 25-35 mph winds — we had a REAL ride on our hands!\u00a0 There was a brief stretch where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starfirefarm.com\/ride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}