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| Wednesday, 26 August 2009 06:17 |
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I apologize for the lack of updates. Is just that the past two weeks have been kind of crazy and unexpected… In a good way… After doing Ladera GP a couple of weeks ago, things were looking a lot better with the form I was getting on the bike. And just as I finish the race I went home, and packed my stuff! Again! and left the very next morning for a week long training camp in Mexico. It was at the same place I had a training camp before doing the Tour of Mexico back in March, and with the same team. But now, it was to get ready for the Tour of Puebla.
I knew it wasn’t the best to do a week of hard training in altitude two weeks before the race. But since it was in one of my favorite towns (Mazamitla), I just couldn’t resist the offer. Got there Monday afternoon, saw my teammates, and everything looked as if I had come just yesterday to the Cabin. It was an awesome feeling.
By the next day, I was already out in the mountains with the team doing a 5 hour hard session on the bike. The training camp pretty much consisted on back to back 4-6 hour sessions in the mountains with 3x3 – 5km intervals at 80-90%, pretty much every session, and just to finish each ride we would have to race a 5-10 km climb.
Doing 6,000 – 9,000 feet of climbing everyday on those roads was really exhausting, but at the same time it was really nice to ride in such a beautiful place. Mazamitla is so green right now, that it basically feels like being on a Jurassic Park movie with a bunch of roads to ride on.
The camp finished last Sunday morning, and after that the team drove down to Guadalajara. Now I am just here spending the rest of the week until Saturday. The tour of Puebla starts August 31.
EVERY MORNING
WALKING AROUND THE CABIN AREA MAZAMITLA TOWN AT NIGHT THE LAST HILL ! THE COOLEST NIGHTCLUB (MALINTZE!) |
