Gran Canaria, Spain, Route GC-15, 25 January 2018.
Below is a list of training camps that I've completed to date, all of them to build fitness for my endurance-distance, mountain bike racing ambitions. The first was on the Big Island of Hawaii in 2015; those most recent, when I was still living part of the year in Europe, were back-to-back trips to Gran Canaria and Mallorca in Jan-March 2018. I've inserted a contemoraneous blog-entry for each camp, but you might find more details by searching the list of clickable CATEGORIES that I've embedded in articles I've written and published on my blog page. If you have any questions don't hesitate to send me an email ...
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Big Island, Hawaii, USA
6 January - 6 February 2015 Highlights: Sea to Summit to Sea, Waipio to Hawi Out & Back via Mud Lane, Waipio Valley In & Out Blog-entry, 18 April 2015: Much has been happening over the last four months at Andre Breton Racing. Below I want to catch-up anyone that might be following my activities. In particular, I want to introduce my new coach, Fort Collins resident Pat Nash; recollect the highlights from four weeks of training on the Big Island of Hawaii including an all day rendezvous with Mauna Kea ... [READ MORE]. |
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Mallorca, Spain
3-28 February 2017 Highlight: Mallorca 312 (the course, not the race) Blog-entry, 27 June 2017: From my winter base camp perspective, gazing-out the window from the third floor of an old brownstone on the Bismarckstrassa in Hamburg, Germany, it has been easy for my mind to slip comfortably into day-dreams framed by relatively nearby places where a motivated cyclist could, sensibly, spend part of the winter ... [READ MORE}. |
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Gran Canaria, Spain
16 January to 1 February 2018 Highlights: Ayacata, Wilco Kelderman Flyby, Valley of Tears, Pico de las Nieves (image, left, is from this adventure). Blog Entry, 11 June 2018: Despite common sense, intuition, and logic, hard work does not guarantee improvement in sport especially as an athlete accumulates years of experience. As that experience approaches about 7-10 years, a hard working / training / recovering athlete transitions to marginal gains for the same effort that delivered much larger gains in the past. Sadly, these marginal gains may not even keep pace with losses, due to aging, illness, poor nutrition, etc, during the same period. Six years into my cycling and racing history (2013-present), at 47 y.o., aging is a significant factor nipping away at my physiological capacities ... [READ MORE]. |
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Mallorca, Spain
20 February to 12 March 2018 Highlights: Sóller, Wonderland Never Disappoints, Serra de Tramuntana. Blog Entry, 11 June 2018: In early December, I was still planning two trips to Spain to add climbing / elevation adaptation blocks to my winter training program. I traveled to Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, from 16 Jan to 1 Feb; and later, to Mallorca from 20 Feb to 12 March. When in Spain my priority was climb, climb, climb, no gym, occasionally stretching, always eating. I took days off to work and recover. I did perform some interval sessions ... [READ MORE]. |
A collection of images from my 2018 Training Camps in Mallorca and Gran Canaria, Spain:
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This image and all above, Mallorca, Spain 2018; all below are from Gran Canaria, Spain 2018.
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