Brevets Riding Training: Brevets Rapha spring training Tour of California
by Krystal
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Life in the Fast Lane
I want to ride faster – I go through this EVERY year around this time. This urge to ride faster – to ride with the faster riders – I want to ride faster!
Problem is I’m slow. I have a heavy touring bike. And I’m over weight. The truth doesn’t look very glamorous in black and white does it?
Each spring I loose a little more weight, add more miles and ride harder. Sometime around April or May [when I'm still averaging 13 - 14 mph] I give up on “going faster” and resign myself to just getting out there and riding. This is fine – and comes to me through several juicy rationalizations about what’s really important – why am I out there anyway – and “no really – I like to ride alone”.
The trouble is seeing things like this video, and riding brevets, and dreaming about the feeling of freedom I believe is attached to being able to “keep up”. Anyway – that’s how I feel about it.
Rapha Rides The Tour of California from RAPHA on Vimeo.
I’d rather have the financial wherewithal to purchase Rapha clothing guilt-free. And for that matter, if I was blingin’ like that, I’d probably have the time to ride as much as I wanted, too… 
Have you tried intervals? Seen what you could average on a lighter bike?
I saw a page about a 300K and got the same bite… it is the season…