Recap of Park City UT Training Camp

Lisa and I went up to Park City UT for an awesome training camp with 20-30 folks associated with Team Donate Life. The camp was supported by Max Testa, Mike Brown and who have some great pro riding credentials.

The camp started with Lactate Threshold testing on Thursday Oct 15. Lisa did a new test as a follow up to her test at Athleticamps in late May. The encouraging results were that Lisa's power had increased by about 20% from 2.8 W/kg to 3.5W/Kg(!) normalized to sea level.. This is impressive and explains why I am always watching her disappear up the hills.

The Fall colors were happening and the roads and hills around Park City were gorgeous which made for some stellar riding and climbing. We had some easier days and then some hard climbs with grades up to 16% ( all at 6500+ feet elevation) Also on tap was a 12 mi time trial and sprint races.

The whole camp is geared toward goal setting and intelligent training based on your current fitness, LT zones and goals and in this some wonderful one on one with Max Testa and Mike Brown was indispensable. We returned on Sunday after a great long weekend. For Many is was also an opportunity to hear more about Race Across America and start training for a place on a RAAM team next summer

Unfortunately for me on day 2 while descending on some wonderful new pavement I discovered that the pavers had raised the road surface 4" but failed to raise the manhole covers with the pavement... I went down hard and fast ( about 35mph) which resulted in a trip to emergency, lots of road rash and a large investment in bandages and antibiotic ointment etc at the local Rite Aid. The bike did OK but needed new DuraAce shifters, New carbon bars, bartape and wheels re-trued.

All is pretty well mended and repaired and I managed to get some nice photos from the Sag vehicles on the remaining days and still participate in the lectures and other activities.

Thanks to Jared Ellison and every one that made this a great Camp!

Best regards

Ron and Lisa