The past 6 days I was in Lubbock to help coaching about 30 junior/U23 riders at the USA Cycling Regional Camp. It was a great time, and I even got to ride my bike, too.
Jarred and me drove down there on Sunday morning and spent the rest of the day getting people registered. Over the next couple of days the kids got to ride a lot, did some power-based testing on Computrainers, raced 20K time trials and 3K hill repeats. All of us coaches (Tim Redus, James Karthauser, Mike Keitz, Richard Wharton, David Mayer-Oakes, + mechanic Ricky) stayed like the riders at the dorms of Texas Tech University.
First, I wasn't too excited having a training camp in the middle of hot, windy West Texas but it's actually not too bad. They have the Ransom Canyon there, which is like a oasis in the middle of plain, flat West Texas Farm land. You ride on some small farm road with no tree left and right and suddenly you go down a steep descent and green trees, bushes, and hills appear out of nowhere. That's something we need in Wichita Falls! Right next to it is Buffalo Springs Lake, located on the outside of the Canyon and a very nice place to own property in the Lubbock.
Next to riding our bikes a lot, we also got to listen to some good presentations by my friend Juergen and his wife Julie (USAC Officials), USADA, and I also talked a bit about training with a Powermeter.
You can watch a video from one of our skills sessions as aired on the local TV station here.
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