Well, I hate to say it, but I am starting again. I actually got over 7 hours in this week! Wow! Now if I can do that during a week that doesn't involve 2 days off of work, that will be wonderful...
As I think I've mentioned before, I'm just riding right now. Getting some pre-base base in to get my body used to riding consistently again before I up the volume or the intensity much. Starting next week, I'm going to actually plan and structure my training more carefully again, going back to the build-for-three, recover-for-one week schedule that worked so well for me the first year. I'm not strapping on a HRM until January at the earliest, though. Maybe February. Base, base, base. And I know my body well enough to know when I'm at, or above threshold.
I love riding in the cold. Don't know why. It's like a badge of courage, I guess. The edgy feeling that if my mechanical is bad enough and I'm far enough out, I might be in real trouble before someone came to pick me up. And yet, I ride way out into the countryside anyway.
Here's to never walking more than 100 feet in road cleats.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Sunday, November 23, 2008
And so it begins, or at least continues
Since my old blog used to be only about cycling and now it's becoming more about everything else in my life and since I like the name of my old blog so well, I've decided to create a new blog for just my cycling reports, training, musings, etc.
This is it.
I'm looking forward to riding this winter. I know, that's bizarre. It's freaking cold in Minnesota in the winter. Upper 20's sounds like a heat wave by the time you get to January. But there's something about riding in sub 30 degree weather than I like. That I've always liked since I started doing it. The sun so far south in the sky that you really can't tell what direction you're riding based on its location. Noon looks like 6:00 at night during the summer, only west and south have switched places.
Still, there's something about it. And braving it makes you strong. Or makes you broken on the black top with your bike corroding out from under you, but you do the best you can.
And yes, I'm riding unattached in 2009. My missed races, bailing, inconsistent schedule, failed commitments are all mine now. Somehow I think I'll make less of them and it will all turn out better. The proof is in the pudding, I guess, but I'm still declaring now: Durand 2009. Here I come!
This is it.
I'm looking forward to riding this winter. I know, that's bizarre. It's freaking cold in Minnesota in the winter. Upper 20's sounds like a heat wave by the time you get to January. But there's something about riding in sub 30 degree weather than I like. That I've always liked since I started doing it. The sun so far south in the sky that you really can't tell what direction you're riding based on its location. Noon looks like 6:00 at night during the summer, only west and south have switched places.
Still, there's something about it. And braving it makes you strong. Or makes you broken on the black top with your bike corroding out from under you, but you do the best you can.
And yes, I'm riding unattached in 2009. My missed races, bailing, inconsistent schedule, failed commitments are all mine now. Somehow I think I'll make less of them and it will all turn out better. The proof is in the pudding, I guess, but I'm still declaring now: Durand 2009. Here I come!
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