marquette

this past week i was in marquette michigan visiting ingrid and family. it was a good time. to start it off it was a 5 hour drive and to my surprise and delight i only used half a tank of gas on the subaru. so that is fun. but yeah the week just kept getting better from there. went biking. went swimming, a nice sand beach is a two minute walk from ingrids. so that was very nice. i did both road and mt biking. the mt biking there was amazing. tons of trails. single track, downhill, places wide enough for four wheelers, technical, non technical, and so on. just amazing mt biking. (the ore to shore is in that area). since ingrids dad is the coach of nmu running and skiing he has got all kinds of fancy training tools. he was nice and decided to help me out by doing a lactate test. the purpose is to find out where my body starts making a lot of lactic acid and is unable to keep clearing it. also known as the lactate threshold (i think). also it is used to find the point where just lots of lactic acid starts to be created. to recover right, do intervals right, do OD workouts right this is important stuff. so we set my bike up on a trainer and all i had to do was (for round 1) put my HR at 125ish and keep it there for 3 or so minutes. then a finger prick and blood tested on a cool little gadget for finding lactate. then the next set was at 135ish HR then blood then 145 then blood, up to 163 is where my threshold is. so above that i will fatigue fast. and i should be under 143 for long distance stuff. hopefully this will help the training.
but even without that fun test the week with ingrid was great fun.
tomorrow sean comes for a race up at spirit and some bike riding.