I absolutely love it. I know I've heard it somewhere else before - maybe in the Race Across the Sky video? (<-- BTW, watch this if you're wondering what this Leadville thing is that I've gotten myself into.)
Anyway, back to the song. Pardon the weird music video, but I love the song because listening to it I can just see myself riding across the open alpine-scape, above tree line, suffering, just pushing and pushing and pushing those pedals.... and with a silly grin on my face because I love. every. minute. of. it!! Man it gets me going!
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The trail up Columbine Climb. Not my photo - (c) Romping and Rolling in the Rockies 2009-2013; check out her blog, she has some awesome shots. |
I did two spin classes in a row today. I was on the trainer for almost 4 hours yesterday, and so I wasn't sure how I'd hold up with two hard hours today. The first hour was a little rough, and I only did every other interval, to keep some gas in the tank for the next hour. But then I hit it hard the second class and really started getting into it, endorphins a-flyin. I'm finding that the harder the class is, the more I like it. Thursday's instructor had us do a 30 minute climb, just adding gear after gear, and that was my favorite class so far. Two classes is a row is pretty hard and sweet too.
And speaking of spinning: This year is the first time I've tried it. It's just too cold out to ride outside and I don't have the motivation to ride alone on the trainer at home, so I figured I'd try out the class at the YMCA. I'm still doing some of my rides (the really long ones or easy ones) on my trainer at home, but at least twice a week I'm at the Y. I was a little worried though whether all that silly spin stuff (jumps, jumps on a hill, etc), not using the exact same muscles as my mtn bike, etc, would translate once I'm outside again. But I felt great last weekend for the entire Death March, so that was really encouraging.
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