Saturday, April 29, 2006

Wildflower Spinning Class

Since our team had to ship out our bikes to Wildflower last weekend, I put together a spinning class so that we could all get one last decent ride in...we're talking 2 hours of intense spinning here, guys.

I made it 'be' the Wildflower Long Course Bike Course...I got the elevation chart, and figured that each mile would be covered in 2 minutes, and then created the class from the elevation chart...

Here's the plan:

WILDFLOWER—PART I
Cars—Just What I Needed—3:43—slight up (2), more up
Blue Man Group—Mandelgroove—5:49—UP (Beach Hill)
Third Eye Blind—Semi Charmed Life—4:28—down (2), up
B 52s—Love Shack—4:19—down—sprints (2), flat
Midnight
Runners—Come on Eileen—4:13—up
Beatles—Money!—2:46—flat
Beatles—Revolution—3:23—down—sprints (2), up
Da Rude—Sandstorm—3:46—down
DJay—Hard Out Here for a Pimp—2:53—flat (2), slight up
Eurythmics—Sweet Dreams—4:52—slight up (3), more up
Beatles—Help!—2:17—more up
Doors—Break on Through—2:27—more up
I am a Man of Constant Sorrow—4:16—flat (2), up
Green Day—Castaway—3:52—down (2), up
Johnny Cash—I fought the Law—2:17—flat

(bathroom/water break)

WILDFLOWER—PART II

Kinks—I wish I Could Fly—3:36—warm up (1), up
Letting the Good Times Roll—4:57—endurance
Lynard Skynard—Sweet Home Alabama5:00—endurance
The Smiths—How Soon is Now—6:39—endurance
Outkast—The Whole World—4:57—up (2), more up
Prince—Seven—5:13—flat (2), down
Red Hot Chili Peppers—Around the Wold—3:58—slight up
Cake—I Will Survive—5:10—UP (Nasty Grade)
Spin Doctors—Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong—3:54—down
Snoop Dog—Beautiful—5:00—up (4), more up (2)
Genesis—I Can’t Dance—3:33—down—sprints (2), up
The Verve—Bitter Sweet Symphony—5:57—flat (2), slight up (2), down

The number in parenthesis means that the song is split, and the first section will be (# of minutes long).

Here's the elevation chart:

The class is from 1:45-3:45 today...I think it's going to kick some butt!

7 comments:

TriSaraTops said...

That is sooooo cool! What a great idea!

BuckeyeRunner said...

Oh my. This sounds like a killer class!

qcmier said...

Yikes that sounds like a lot of spinning. Awesome job leading all of that.

Bolder said...

that's awesome -- i wish our spin instructors woulda thoughta somethin' like that.

i like the cake up nasty grade -- nice touch!

i'm not doing wildflower, but i would have wanted to do that class fo sho.

mmmm... elevation charts... mmmmmm.

greyhound said...

Hey Curly! Good luck at Wildflower! You're going to be great, and you've got 15 years head start on me. I wish I had discovered how much fun this is when I was a wee kid like you.

tri buddah said...

Ilove the concept and I am interested in how you all felt after? see you all at wildflower , should be an unbelievable display of colors thaks to all the rain and the lake should be fairly warm(swam there2 weeks ago and it was great) and the weathjer looks like it is going to be mild 70 -80 range so we should be in luck and I can't wait to see you all from the midwest!!! I'll be out on the long course so look for me there!!Bib 1588
cheers,
tri buddha (aka JT)

Siren said...

That is freaking brilliant! I hope it went as well in practice as it looks in theory : )