Cycling & Track Racing, Vegan-Style!: A Moderate Week

A fairly easy week training-wise, just a couple 2hr EM rides, partially due to feeling a bit under-the-weather on Tuesday, and a double-header race weekend about to esplode!

Tomorrow is a flat but muddy course at Slugget Farm in Saanich, and Sunday is a hilly and grassy course at the Juan de Fuca Rec Center (home of our beloved velodrome that we've been locked out of: screw you Dave Saunders you gurgling idiot!!)

My two rides looked a little something like this:

Tuesday

Entire workout (208 watts):
    Duration:     2:01:09 (2:04:49)
    Work:          1502 kJ
    TSS:           146.9 (intensity factor 0.856)
    Norm Power:    223
    VI:            1.07
    Distance:     61.235 km
        Min    Max    Avg
    Power:           0    833    208     watts
    Heart Rate:     79    180    157     bpm
    Cadence:         21    118    95     rpm
    Speed:           3.8    59.4    30.5     kph

Thursday

Entire workout (208 watts):
Duration: 2:11:45 (2:16:55)

Work: 1632 kJ

TSS: 160.4 (intensity factor 0.858)

Norm Power: 223

VI: 1.07

Distance: 66.168 km

Min Max Avg

Power: 0 711 208 watts

Heart Rate: 70 179 157 bpm

Cadence: 29 122 95 rpm

Speed: 4 55.5 30.4 kph

If i'm anything, i'm consistent, apparently! Similar but different routes.. I lucked out Thursday, it was raining all morning, and for the 2-4pm window that i snuck out, it was dry, and we actually had a few sunny breaks! Also, thanks for the company from Lysanne.

Wish me luck this weekend!

Links Of Interest

Al Gore on ABC News, talks a bit about diet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrfAW1NvWV4
Some comments:
Methane is 20x more damaging than CO2.
"I'm not a vegetarian, don't plan to become one."
"But the biggest issue, by far, is CO2. And methane comes from a lot of sources...natural gas, coal mines, rice, a lot of sources."
Good job, Al Gore. Way to ignore this "inconvenient truth".

No Need for Vegans to Give Up Fat, Gluten, Soy or Cooked Foods
http://veggiedietitian.blogspot.com/2009/11/no-need-for-vegans-to-give-up-fat.html
Amen to that, Ginny! Veganism is not a deprivation diet, but should actually expand one's dietary horizon! Follow her on Twitter as well: http://twitter.com/TheVeganRD/

MEC Reveals their New Line of Bikes
http://www.mec.ca/Products/product_listing.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302886456&bmLocale=en
I'm not really impressed...these don't seem like very good values. I don't think bike shops have much to worry about.

Number of Animals Killed to Produce 1 Million Calories in Eight Food Categories
http://www.animalvisuals.org/data/1mc/
An interesting visual.

Vegetari-what?
http://bit.ly/2rm26j
Beeb article on the confusing 'levels' of vegetarianism...let's not let this happen to veganism!

NISSCCOTU Race Report by Wendy Simms
http://islandsportsnews.net/?p=3792
Hilarious race report from Wendy from last weekend's Single Speed Championships, check it if you haven't already!

Plus Some NISSCCOTU Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcgtXPn_UBE
Some fun footage, plus i'm in there:
* 3:05 - Air Vegan!
* 5:35 - In the mud..

NISSCCOTU GPS - Roland's Garmin Data
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/17648271
Kind of cool to check out, Roland's GPS data from the race.

Another Vegan Cycling Blog: Chronicals of the mtbVegan
http://mtbvegan.wordpress.com/
Twitter friend Regina's postings, a strong SS rider from Milwaukee, WI.

All Things Cyclocross on the Island
http://victoria.organicathlete.org/cyclocross
From the OA Victoria site, this link connects to most all the cyclocross stuff on the island. =)