The Devinci Fiddlehead
Sold my Devinci road bike today. *sniff* *sniff*. Tough to sell my first bike since I started cycling.. but I never rode it much, my P3 gets all my saddle time. So Carson.... you can longer try and coax me into doing crit and road racing, since I don't have a bike for it now! HA!
On another topic.... I ate a whole bunch of raw fiddleheads on Sunday. Tasty and crunchy, fiddleheads can only be had for a short period each year. However I got nasty sick that very night (and still feel a bit ill). Wondering if maybe it was food poisoning I found a few things with quick google search:
Fiddleheads are eaten raw or cooked. Raw fiddleheads contain the enzyme thiaminase which attacks vitamin B when ingested in sufficient quantities; therefore, caution is recommended.
Although no proven cause for this health hazard has yet been identified, HPB and CFIA believe that the most likely is an unidentified natural toxin present in the fiddleheads. Fortunately, this toxin is destroyed by heat. HPB and CFIA recommend that fresh fiddleheads be carefully washed in several changes of cold water. They should then be thoroughly cooked in boiling water for 15 minutes or steamed for 10 to 12 minutes until tender.
Food poisoning symptoms usually begin 30 minutes to 12 hours after eating raw or undercooked fiddleheads, and may include diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps and headaches. Illness generally lasts less than 24 hours. This can result in dehydration, particularly among the elderly and in infants. There have been no reported cases of food poisoning connected with eating fully cooked fiddleheads.
So there ya go.. enjoy your fiddleheads... but cook them well!
Banff-Calgary Relay
Team Pending (my team) placed 2nd this weekend in the BCR. Our solid leading going into leg 9 was quickly closed by none other than Jeremy Deere (4:55/Mile pace... yikes) on the Esso Tigers... or should I call them the Esso "Ringers". ;-) We continued to lose another 10mins or so in the next two legs... but were solidly in second to the finish.
Edit: Our team name is an inside joke.... something about no team name was submitted originally, so it was just "pending".... so Bernie, our team captain left it at that.
I never seem to run well at the BCR, it's right in the middle of my build for the triathlon season. I managed a 6:06/Mile pace for my 16k leg 5 though, but it was mostly downhill, and strong tailwind assisted. I think my legs would have seized if I had to run even a few more km's.
For a lark I might signup of for the Mother's Day 5k next weekend... I never run 5k's so it might be fun.
Going EASY
Well... it seems any time I make a post about training, some asshole comes out of the woodwork to make a rude comment. It's my blog, so I can delete whatever comments I don't like... it's already been deleted from this post. Honestly, if you have to post anonymous abusive comments... what does that say about yourself? A bit insecure perhaps?
As to what was in this original post, i'm going to rephrase a bit:
I (re-?)learned the value of going VERY EASY this week. I was forced to ride a VERY EASY two hours last Friday... think MTB pace, or not much faster. Well, I woke up Saturday and my legs felt good, almost too good for the volume I had already put in that week, and despite downing several beers the night before. My 6 hour ride that day, I was much stronger than I expected to be. I can only attribute this to the ride the day before. Or maybe I'm just killer fit. ;-)
My conclusion.... easy sometimes isn't easy enough. I do plenty easy workouts for recovery, but I'd benefit on some days by dropping my HR 10 beats further and just going "cruisy pace".
