So, I'm not sure if my room is hypoxic or not, half of the participants are in hypoxia half are control and not. But, I wore my heart rate monitor to sleep last night and my average heart rate was 70, which is a bit high, so I think we might be one of the hypoxic rooms. I have a room mate now, AJ, and we have to be in our room for at least 16 hours a day. Enter at 4 pm, leave for an hour at 7 for dinner, back in from 8 pm til 7 am when we have an hour break for breakfast, then back in for 2 more hours from 8-10 am. So, its a lot of laying around sleeping and being lazy in general. Which is fine with me really... 10-4 is riding time, I've gone on some pretty sweet rides in the past couple of days, but taking today off, my legs are pretty sore.
Yesterday we rode a nice loop that Logan picked out. Laust, Russel, Logan, Andrew and I went, it was a 69 mile ride with about 6000 feet of climbing.
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We started out with an hour of descending in a beautiful valley, through the town of Mijoux and ending in Montanges. On the way down we went past a lot of cool rock formations and into a tunnel blasted through the mountainside. After about 25 miles of going downhill, it was time for some climbing, up about 2500 feet on the first one, another ripping descent into Saint-Claude, then basically climbing for the rest of the ride back to Premanon. Here are some pictures from the ride-
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| Camera strap got in the way, but you get the idea... |
I registered for the La Forestiere 100k mountain bike (VTT) race this Sunday. Its a point to point race, starting nearby in Les Rousses and finishing way down in Arbent. I'm pretty excited to race in France, this is a UCI marathon event too so should bring out some pretty big names. No one will know what my 29er is, they are not very big in europe. I will let you know how it goes...
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