{"id":1364,"date":"2012-09-24T15:06:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T22:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/o2fitness.net\/o2\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2012-09-24T15:06:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T22:06:11","slug":"heidis-2011race-season-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/heidis-2011race-season-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Heidi&#8217;s 2011Race Season Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/09\/Heidi_MaderaCrit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2327\" src=\"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/09\/Heidi_MaderaCrit-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"Heidi_MaderaCrit\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Heidi_MaderaCrit-230x300.jpg 230w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Heidi_MaderaCrit.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a>My season started out with promise in February.\u00a0 It quickly went awry starting with Snelling, where I DNF&#8217;d due to back pain that would always start around mile 30 of a road race.\u00a0 From there, it went downhill\u00a0pretty rapidly and continued doing so\u00a0until a thoroughly awful\u00a0weekend at the\u00a0Chico Stage race, where my back problems really hampered me.\u00a0 After Chico, I decided that training harder wouldn&#8217;t fix the issue.\u00a0 I needed to get some help.&lt;<br \/>\nI had a connection to Julie through my current club\/team (Silver Sage is a sponsor).\u00a0\u00a0She\u00a0changed my\u00a0bike fit and<\/p>\n<div>within a couple weeks, I was able to actually ride my bike without pain. I also gained some wattage output\u00a0that\u00a0translated to\u00a0an increase in speed that I couldn&#8217;t have otherwise attained.\u00a0 I got some quantification of\u00a0the improvements\u00a0at a couple of our local Tuesday Night Twilight races and\u00a0the Little City Stage Race in July.\u00a0\u00a0The road race, while not the greatest placing, was the best I&#8217;ve ever felt in that discipline.\u00a0 The total lack of pain meant I could actually train for road racing.\u00a0 What a concept!<br \/>\nThrough two 8-week training camps, Julie taught me some huge improvements in my pedal strokes, as well.\u00a0 That change, along with a wider variety of interval workouts, caused an overall improvement in my riding\/racing that resulted in several podium finishes in the last half of the season.\u00a0 The changes also made it possible for me to be more aggressive in my race tactics because I&#8217;ve been more confident in my physical ability.She&#8217;s been an incredible sounding board for all my ups and downs this season, even though she probably didn&#8217;t have to do that. Her support and knowledge was the major reason I was able to turn my season around and start having FUN again.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/images\/cleardot.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My season started out with promise in February.\u00a0 It quickly went awry starting with Snelling, where I DNF&#8217;d due to back pain that would always start around mile 30 of a road race.\u00a0 From there, it went downhill\u00a0pretty rapidly and continued doing so\u00a0until a thoroughly awful\u00a0weekend at the\u00a0Chico Stage race, where my back problems really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletes-blog","tag-heidi-littenberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}