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Dear Rick, Next weekend we start the new 2006 RMCC ride schedule. Hard to believe that the first third of the Midlife Cycling training season has been completed. If you haven't been riding and don't intend to ride until the ski areas close don't be discouraged the training progression still holds no matter when you start. I've been told that some e-mail programs do not display the HTML formatting of these newsletters. I have started a newsletter archive and will add a link to the past newsletters soon. I continue my valiant fight against time to improve the website and ask for your continued patience.  Rick Russon
The 2006 RMCC Ride Schedule has been released. You can get one at most bike shops or at the start of any club ride. There are over two dozen introductory rides where an experienced rider will be available to assist you with your first ride. This is not coaching! The intention is to help you get signed in, introduce you to other riders, and make sure you do not get dropped during the ride. Coaching is provided through this newsletter, periodic seminars and clinics, and personal training. The RMCC ride schedule was originally developed to train for the Denver-Aspen ride. The classic Colorado rides like the Elephant Rock, Triple Bypass, and Ride the Rockies require specific and different training. My goal is to turn you into a well-rounded cyclist with a good mix of climbing ability and speed. Therefore, I have picked the RMCC rides that I believe support our training the best and substitute in our own rides when we need to work on certain skills. So please click on the link below and print out a copy for the season. Print out a new one each month as I may adjust the schedule. SUNDAY AFTERNOON RIDES: this year I will be attending Sunday morning church services with my family and cannot make the RMCC rides (except for Populaires and Brevets). Therefore, I am going to start another group that will ride at 1 pm on Sundays. We will meet at the Santa FE & Mineral PNR. Rides will be approximately 1 1/2 - 2 hours. Please contact me if you are interested. If I don't see much general interest then I will put together a select team of 6-8 riders.
I want to elaborate on our weight training discussion of last week. One of the comments was that doing the reps at our riding cadence is not as "hard" as doing them slowly. Remember, we are trying to increase muscular endurance and neuro-muscular speed - not muscle size (hypertrophy). Sometimes we get caught up in an academic mindset. My argument is that the BEST exercise technique is useless if people won't do it. Perhaps we give up some slight potential gains. But I've seen people, myself included, make tremendous progress without the fatigue, muscle soreness, joint pain and other discomforts associated with hard exercise. Remember that we are recreational cyclists. We do not need to maximize our gains. We just need to make consistent gains over the long term (years). So find an exercise level that is comfortable and that you look forward to doing on a regular basis.
The website is undergoing some redesign to make the site more functional rather than just an online brochure. We will be adding a newsletter archive so that you can bring up current and past newsletters in your browser if your e-mail client does not display HTML pages well.
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