Long flat holiday miles
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- December
- 29
Happy Holidays!
In Two days I rode 119 miles on the flatlands of the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Maryland. What a terrific 
way to work off a Christmas dinner feast. My wife’s family rents a vacation home to bring the family together over Christmas each year. This year we stayed on Chincoteague Island in Virginia.
I’ve been riding on the Eastern shore for many years and would often top off my racing season training with a long weekend of 200 miles or more in late March. This gave me longer miles and high cadence to ready my legs for high speed early season criteriums. These roads are perfect for early season LSD (Long Slow Distance ) miles.
So I printed some maps and headed off the island for a few hours Friday (67 miles)and Saturday (52). The terrain allowed for a high cadence on my 50X21 and 19 and never using the small ring for the short gentle grades. I cannot call them hills really. So the hours in the saddle were spent spinning 110 rpms with little change in tempo. Not something my body is use to along the Hudson. While the peddling was free and easy my legs and back felt the steady position. 
The roads are open fields, swamp and a few cedar forests. Small old towns dot the crossroads taking you back 50 years or more. The roads here are safe and smooth with good visibility.
Both days the wind ticked up and made for a long tiring return across the wide-open causeway.
Early spring of 2009 might just find me on the Eastern shore for some long days in the saddle and flat road LSD to move my body from winter training to season ready.
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on Monday, December 29th, 2008 at 12:54 PM by Randall Wolf. 
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