Sante Fe Training Camp - Days 4

For the last day of camp, we had a big climbing route in store.  After a quick decent back towards town from our house, we took a hard left and headed up the climb to Ski Santa Fe.  This is a relentless 15-mile climb with about 4,000 ft vertical.  I took the KOM for the crew by a few minutes up this climb, leading the lower slopes at upper tempo or 210W and then surging ahead with 20-30 minutes at 235W or low threshold.

Here are some pictures of some of the teammates finishing.  This was quite the effort and up top it was still fairly snowy on the shady sides of the roads.

Here is a picture at the top before we all headed down.  I wish I could do this every week.  The training was great, the food was great, and the company was even better.  After getting back to the house with super tired legs, we packed up and started the drive back home late that afternoon.