A Strong Start of 2025
New goals, new bike, additional motivation. The year 2025 started strong with a sunny ride to Morgan Hill, along the Coyote Creek trail. This is becoming one of my favorite rides, with no cars, a relatively flat path, and beautiful scenery. With a refueling stop at The Running Shop and Hops brewery, and a climb to the Leroy Anderson dam, this is a great 30 miles workout.
Tridot
Tridot is a triathlon training platform, “The official Training Platform of Ironman”. They also run a great marketing campaign: Join our research program for free. This is basically a week trial + 2 free months for those who show interest. Brilliant.
I am impressed by their guidance and training videos. They offer swim, cycle, and run workouts straight to my Garmin devices. The swim workouts are perfect to kill the monotony of lap swimming. The run sessions keep you focussed on zone 2 training and going slow. The cycling workout was confusing. I couldn’t read the instructions on my Garmin Edge bicycle computer. Also, slow was just too slow to be fun.
My 2 month “research program” session starts on Tuesday. I do plan to give it a shot. To be clear, I am not aiming for an Ironman. My ambitious 2025 goal is finish an Olympic triathlon.
First Flat of the Year
I have been riding tubeless on my gravel bike for 2 years. The tubeless setup has served me excellently. The goo automatically plugged several punctures, only with one time, in the streaming rain. There is still a learning curve with the tape and refilling the goo. Yet, I’ve been a fan.
My new road bike has inner tubes. It is tubeless ready. But I didn’t go for that yet.
Today, on the third ride of the year, I got my first small puncture. I did struggle a bit with removing the tires. Yet, it all worked out eventually.
Fundraising Update
Before the end of 2024, I reach the $1500 ALC fundraising milestone. That brings me at 42% of meeting the participation minimum. With a little bit of help, and I will be half-way to Los Angeles.
