Official Texas Hellweek site

Hellweek Odometer: 650 miles!

Other fun stats:

  • 42 energy bars
  • 17 shots of carb gels
  • 26 food bars
  • 29 bananas

Here is a crude map of the Texas “hill country”. Right in the center of the map you can see Fredericksburg, this is ground zero for Hellweek.

Feb:
Training program begun for Hellweek. Doing spinning classes two to three times a week to work on interval training (speed and hills). Spending a lot of time on the trainer getting “saddle time”, between 5 to 10 hours per week to start with. Also looking to drop some more weight before the event, any weight dropped is weight I don’t have to pedal up those hills.

March 2, 2001:
Did a long ride in a reprieve from the horrendous winter and got to do a decent gear test.

March 3, 2001:
Did another gear test, this time got all the data captured that I’m looking for.

March 10, 2001:
Day 1 of Hellweek, LBJ Ramble!

March 11, 2001:
Day 2 of Hellweek, The Harper Image.

March 12, 2001:
Day 3 of Hellweek, Southern Comfort.

March 13, 2001:
Day 4 of Hellweek, Fred’s Ride. Disappointing today, blew out my tire!

March 14, 2001:
Day 5 of Hellweek, Born to Boerne. Tough, tough day.

March 15, 2001:
Day 6 of Hellweek, The Leakey Death Ride. I SURVIVED!

March 16, 2001:
Day 7 of Hellweek, The Rollercoaster.