Rist Canyon Hill Climb Race
I pulled the trigger and added the Rist Canyon Hill Climb to my 2010 race schedule on June 5. Here’s an awesome video of the race highlights from 2009. Plus you get a chance to see where I ride and train just about every day. The course is quite literally in my backyard. If you’re interested in racing or doing the citizens ride up Rist Canyon, there’s still time to enter before the June 4th cutoff date. Details for registration are here.
2010’s Goal or What Did I Get Myself Into?
I just made a race commitment earlier this week and entered the 2010 edition of the Bob Cook Memorial Mt. Evans Hill Climb…YIKES! I’ve been wanting to race this one for a few years now, but something always got in the way (little things like a herniated disc). Well, provided I stay healthy until July, I’ll be climbing to the top this year on North America’s highest paved road…hopefully. It’s strange but the second I pushed the submit button on my entry, I felt butterflies in my stomach and my legs suddenly felt really tired! I think my body was asking “What the hell did you just get us into?”
So, now that I have a good long term goal looming out there at the end of July, I’ll have to start setting some short term goals to keep myself on track. That should help me stay focused on the task ahead. Well, that and a printout of the race profile that will be hanging in front of me in my home office and in my training cave! So, that’s my main goal for 2010. What’s yours and how are you staying motivated to reach it?
Here’s the route profile for the hill climb:
Cyclemeter iPhone App Giveaway
Me and my friends at Abvio are teaming up this week to give away 10 FREE copies of their latest iPhone app for cycling, Cyclemeter 2.0. Cyclemeter is iPhone-centric. No Web site logins, no uploads, no ads. Your iPhone has all the cycling data you want, right when you want it. Click on the button above to take the full Cyclemeter Tour.
Entry Requirements
To enter for a chance to win, just head over to Abvio’s Cyclemeter website and take the Cyclemeter Tour. Then come back here to Zen on Two Wheels and leave a comment on this post telling us what you liked most about the app before midnight PST on February 7. We’ll randomly select 10 winners from the comments we receive here on Zen on Two Wheels.
Daytum: A Great Way to Keep Track of Anything
I’m a complete tech and stats freak at heart so it’s no wonder I am completely in love with a website I recently found called Daytum. According to Daytum, the site helps you “collect, categorize and communicate your everyday data“. And, you can share the things you track with everyone else on the web. You can update your stats via the Daytum website, mobile devices or with your Twitter account. While it could be used to track literally just about anything, I’m going to use it in 2010 to track the number of miles I’ve ridden this year, my average morning heart rate, where I’ve ridden, how I’m feeling, my average hours of sleep per night, and the number of books I’ve read. I might add other personal or business metrics, who knows. So, if you want to know what I’m up to this year, head over to my Daytum dashboard and check it out. And, if you decide to share your daily data on Daytum, add a link to it here so we can all follow along with you too. Here’s a screen shot of the dashboard display I set up for my key metrics in 2010:
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