The Beginning: My name is Curtis Morley and I just signed up to be the Guinea Pig of year long experiment. The experiment is to see if Elevate Fitness, Runner’s Corner, and Fezzari/SBR Cycles can take an average guy like myself and turn him into a Triat...
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I woke up at 4:45. It was dark outside and I threw my Trek bike into the back of the suburban and sped down to Elevate Fitness for my first day of training. I wheeled my bike into the Gym and around to the back where the round “Cycle Room” is located....
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4:50 a.m. – The SleepBot alarm on my phone starts singing to me. Because of the sleep deprivation from designing this blog late into the night, the normally pleasant music sounded like someone had backed up a dump truck full of broken concret...
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Plan 7 greeted us this morning with seven (yes 7) sustained hill climbs that are 4:00 minute in duration each. As always, the first couple hills aren’t that bad. In fact they are kind of fun. I saw some pressing email come through on my phone so, fo...
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Holy Cow!! I think today I found out what biking is all about – Sustained Endurance at high speeds. The moment I roll my bike into the Cycling Room I can see something is different about today’s workout. Sam isn’t in his usual biking bi...
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I missed the group for Plan7 this morning because I only had about 1 hour of sleep. For some reason I had the chills all night. Instead, I went to Elevate Fitness at night and set up the PerfStudio Pro to track my ride. It was a very different experience ...
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Last night I got another wild hair. Coach Marci wanted me to bike and swim yesterday. Because of the CLOXchange conference and the running group was counting on me I decided to run and swim yesterday and save the biking for today. So, I decided to switch ...
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What an amazing month of training. Here is the summary so far: Swimming This has been the craziest adventure of all. It is what terrified me the most yet it is what I have made the most progress in. It is hard to believe that Coach Marci has me swimming l...
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I’m learning that I definitely have the strength for biking but need the endurance. Pit me against anyone and I will keep up or beat them the first five minutes of any workout but by the end I am wearing down at a faster pace. Today was a great wor...
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Plan7 was really fun today because instead of just riding the same as always I spent a little time pushing my limits. My original FTP is 178. Today I decided that needed to be a little higher so I pushed the “+” button on my control pad while ...
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