Wet Wednesdays & Lifting Thursday

Found a few free minutes in the bottom of my back pants pocket Wednesday afternoon. What to do with the new found time, why of course a quick ~2hr recovery ride around the Decker loop. On the down side the weather was damp but on the upside ended up riding with Dr McKenzie a professor, triathlete, and budding road cyclist here at Oregon State. Prior to coming to Oregon State she did studies on Iditarod sled dogs in Alaska. Over the ride I learned a few things that reinforced some of my ultra training philosophy. Sled dogs whom race the Iditarod consume huge amounts of calories via fat, but the interesting thing is that if a normal dog were to consume fat in equal concentrations it would at best cause severe gastric distress and possibly even death and that during training sled dogs train to utilize fat a energy source and thus when it comes time to race can tolerate higher levels of fat. Well, this sounds amazingly similar to ultra racing, gastric distress and the concept of eating during training to reflect the eating patters during racing. I guess with that its time for another scoop of Perpetuem.

Thursday it was back in the gym for a few trips through my lifting sets.