Arm Warmers in August?

Tuesdays have become kind of a tough ride day for those of us on TEAM VSK. It's something that we all have come to cherish, and fear. Yesterday what I had in store for the boys took things to a new level for some of them. We rode easy down the Edelfels hill, where we would ride up it for 3 minutes getting our hearts up to zone 5 on each climb. 3 minute recoveries between each hill repeat. Then after our last one, we recovered out to Irlbach where we turned around and TT'ed in the aero in zones 4 and 5. We have a couple of guys who are wheel suckers, so I made sure to mention a few times before we started that there would be no drafting. Drafting would defeat the purpose. I let everyone get about a 30 second head start on me, then ended up beating them all back to Schlict by anywhere from 20 to 45 seconds. The legs were happy. Today though, they are more than tired and they did not enjoy the 2 mile run this morning at PT.

The wildest thing about the ride yesterday is that for the first time in my riding career, I had to put arm warmers on in August. I could not believe it.