Scott McMillan : Endurance Junky

Resolution time do it every year often break them here they are:

The classic lose weight I am at 170 now need to drop 10lbs.
Do more Epic mountain bike riding. Last year was good this year is the other level.
Finish the Test of Metal in sub 3:30. I think this is pretty doable my bike is […]

Racked up another fairly descent week of training, starting to “lean out” dropped 5 pounds in the last few weeks. The weekend rides are paying dividends. The training is not strenuous in any means more fun the way it should be right now.
Weeks training included 11:50 of riding.
1:20 of running and 4 hours of climbing. […]

September has to go down in the books as one of my most epic months of riding. Every weekend has been filled with long XC riding at least 70km every weekend! Right now I am beyond enjoying the mountain bike and fear the dark months ahead when I will have to step away from the […]

On Saturday I rode the legendary Cheakamus Challenge arguably one of the tougher one day bike races in BC. This was my first real hardcore endurance competition in almost three years and my first mountain bike race since the 2004 Test of Metal, I pretty much swore of MTB racing after that, but after […]

Great night of riding up on Burnaby Mountain with Joel. I really love this place great hill climbs with fun descents. This is my 8 straight day of riding and today I did over two hours of riding. Legs felt a little tired but I made the climb up with no fails.
Ave Hr 146 for […]

Started riding the mountain bike again, been doing 3 rides per week off road plus bike commuting feeling somewhat fit pedaling wise. No that I seem to have little time to “train” I use my time when I have it to train with a key on having fun. So that means a run is a […]

I haven’t raced much lately and to be honest I miss it. What do I miss? The suffering. Read two great articles related to this yesturday, re-enforced everything.
Welcome to the Cult By Robert Mackey and
Glory through Suffering
I think it is hardwired into us to feel pain and suffering. When we were on the plains chasing […]

Bloggable. Back on the junk. Went for a killer XC ride on Saturday with Steve to help him prepare him for the upcoming epic XC race the Test of Metal. I did this race 4 years ago and swore to never do it again not because I didn’t like the course which I do […]

Haven’t posted in awhile I have been busy with work, taking a course, working on some side projects etc. My only real “endurance training” has come from riding to work. I have continued to hit the climbing gym a couple times a week and even managed to get out to Squamish with Chris last weekend […]

Went snowshoeing for the first time this year on the North Shore mountains with Tara up on Mt. Seymour. Quite surreal 30 mins away is downtown Vancouver where it is above 0C and the grass is green.
There were some weird ice formations on the trees near the peak, the winds caused the ice […]