Jack’s training so far for this season has included: Preseason – The last part of 2014 riding at least four days a week and doing physical therapy to rehab an old injury before the main season begins. Base – Five weeks of endurance training. The key workouts were twice-a-week aerobic capacity intervals ridden at moderate intensity so…
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Old roads, old bikes, old clothing Adding to the heroic theme of the ride, official L’Eroica Italy rules, which the USA event follows, require riding a pre-1987 (or facsimile) racing bicycle (“racing” is used loosely, as in a dropped-handlebar road bike). I chose my 1974 Peugeot PX-10 and my riding buddy John rode his custom…
Going up that first long hill in the peloton, barely able to see anything, was not fun. I didn’t want to get too close to any other wheel, so I eased off and pulled to one side. It was then that I decided to do something I had never, ever done in all my years…
