Mr. Cagle never ceases to amaze me…

Last night on Tulsa’s weekly Wednesday night group ride we didn’t continue our game, because half the players are vacationing in Cancun. This was unfortunate for all of us, because there was now nothing holding Chad back from riding “Tempo” at the front. When he started his “Tempo” I assumed he would blow himself up, because this pace couldn’t possibly be his Tempo. He had the whole group lined up behind him. A couple of us attacked him to try to mess with him, but he didn’t even know we were attacking, with our feeble efforts that looked more like someone trying to pull through than an attack. Toward the end, after he had ridden all but about 10 riders off his wheel from the previous hour of “Tempo”, some of us would try so hard to pull through, but as soon as he would let us through it was like there was someone in our jersey pocket with an anchor they were tossing out the back. I would try to drag the anchor for about 30 seconds and then I would be done, so it went like that; Chad for 30 minutes than 1 or 2 guys for 30 seconds, with the majority of the riders afraid to even attempt sticking their noses in the wind.

Our coach has an interval named force intervals. Mat has done some hard research and redefined the force interval as seen below.

Force Interval:
Purpose: To practice your weakness, which conveniently for Chad is his Strength.
Description: Go on a ride with Chad and get “forced” into doing intervals.
Protocol: Eternity at max effort. 0 minutes recovery.