Official Teaming Announcement

A few days back I mentioned that new links were being forged within the vanHuuhaa team... well here is the official teaming announcement including the ring.
Still no details worked out on the exact date of the wedding but we are aiming for between March 30 and may 21 2011 somewhere in California.
Warm regards

Ron and Lisa

The Sag Gag

So with some of the Cycle Folsom team diligently training for the Death Ride (a grueling 129mi 16000+ ft climbing event in the Mountains near Lake Tahoe), 4 of the Cycle Folsom Ride leaders secretly conspired to provide surprise SAG support and encouragement to the training riders... Lisa, Stan Kevin and Ron, after a few weeks of quiet preparation set out at 6:30 am from Folsom to Markleeville - via Placerville.

Ron's Jetta Sportwagon was loaded up with 4 bikes and was sporting the nice magnetic "Official Cycle Folsom SAG Vehicle" signs. Lisa had loaded up on every snack, fruit, energy bar, protiens, sandwich ingredients that any rider could possibly want together with 10 galons of water, a foldow table and lawn chairs.

At Picketts Junction we began by chalking the shoulder with Cycle Folsom Signs, Arrows and a few messages... Stan had created some nice inspirational signs including ones Like - "Go kick that mountain's ass!" and "You have Friends in High Places" - indicating the Food Oasis that we set up at the top of Ebbetts Pass.

Half way up Ebbetts Pass, Lisa decided to give it a go as well and managed a very impressive speed up the last 5.1 miles of the climbs.... followed by a fun descent back to Markleeville with Phil and Jeff.

All riders were surprised - and I believe very grateful for the bopunty set out at the top of the long climbs - Lisa had stocked us so well that we had plenty for any and all riders that showed up at the Top of Ebbetts so we got to meet a lot of others training for the Death Ride as well...

Lots more pictures of the Sag Gag at:

http://picasaweb.google.com/starcaster/9262010SagGag#

All in all a very fun fun day - And now we give a shout out to the team to crush the Death Ride in a couple of weeks!

We now Have The Official Sag Vehicle Signs so doont' be surprised to see us somewhere else :)

Have fun!

R

New Links being forged in Team vanHuu-Haa

Hi Friends:

I would like to make the ecstatic announcement that after some careful consideration, my sweetheart, Lisa decided to accept my proposal of marriage and hence the links in the team will become stronger than ever :)

We celebrated the moment with a bottle of white Chateau Valtice Neuburske from the Moravia region of the Czech republic - which we brought back after our Vienna to Prague adventure. The wine was shared in some lovely Waterford Crystal Lismore Essence glasses I got for the occasion.

A LARGE crystal 'diamond' was offered as a temporary stand-in till rings could be chosen. We have not thought much about wedding dates or honeymoon plans etc etc but I do expect there may be a bike ride involved :)

Thanks to all our friends that have given us both their love and friendship...
we send our love and joy in return...

more details to follow

Ron

Lactate Threshold Testing at AthletiCamps

Its been 8 or 9 months of fairly hard riding, with the Vuelta Puerto Rico, 3 Double Centuries, a handful of Centuries and some challenging rides with Cycle Folsom - and yet Lisa and I felt that we were not improving, not getting faster or stronger...So Lisa searched for a place to get some coaching and training advice and maybe take a step back and restart.

As a result of her search Lisa discovered that we in Sacramento are lucky to have AthletiCamps right in Folsom beside Folsom Bike
7610 Folsom-Auburn Rd. Ste. 130 Folsom, CA. 95630
Check them out at http://www.athleticamps.com/ AthleticCamps does Testing, Bike Fitting, Training Camps as well as is associated with Nutrition experts and more.

AthletiCamps has been around for 9 years but only opened the Folsom Office last Fall. Bruce Hendler - the owner and coach is a fountain of information and infectious enthusiasm and so far he has us pumped to work on this, lose some weight, lower our body fat % and hopefully see the results in stronger, faster performance and better recovery.

On Memorial Day Lisa went in for a Lactate Threshold Test and based on the results of the test Bruce designed a training regimen for her. After watching and listening to the analysis I decided to do get the package as well... which I did Sat June 5. The test is done on your own bike on a Computrainer and generally starts with a 20 min warm-up, followed but 3 min intervals of progressively higher power (resistance) at a maintained cadence of 95rpm, while Bruce samples a drop of blood from your earlobe to measure the Lactate (painless).
For me the tests were done at 100w, 130w, 160w, 190w, 210w, 240w, & 270w. Based on the heart rate measured and the lactate Bruce can determine your three training zones and your lactate threshold.

So the result is that we have found out that we have been training at too high a heart rate and that explains our lack of weight loss (since fat burns most effectively in the low and medium intensity zones) and also our training has not concentrated properly on base and endurance training (low intensity zone) and strength training using Slow Frequency Revolutions - basically hill climbing at about 45 revolutions while keeping the heart rate below 145 bpm.

Anyways... Tomorrow Lisa and I are off on a "rubber legs" ride - cycling in our lower zone at 95 rpm with no coasting and maintaining heart rate even on the down hills... should be an adventure
:)