Today’s ride

Greetings Readers!

I went out this morning for a nice spin in the country, I tried to leave all the existential stuff behind and just go out and ride my bike, given how tired I’ve been the last few weeks. The legs were tired today and I stayed in my 39t ring. Usually I ride in the 53 and work the larger cogs, today I worked the smaller cogs in 39. My speed stayed about the same, and I tried not to work too hard. I also resisted the desire to chase down anybody I saw up ahead of me. Something I have a bad habit of doing. There were lots of people out today on a 70 degree day.

I went back and checked last years spreadsheet and I think I’m farther along that last year at this point, however I didn’t put in as much training either. So I’m still dissapointed in that I feel like I should be farther along than I am. Another mile and hour faster avg speed would have me feeling a little more confident. Cross is still 5 months away, and I’m hoping running is going to help. But I’m dissatisfied with my progress so far. I’ve only 3 more months of base building before I start adding those tough intensity intervals to try to boost up my anaroebic threshold so I can crank like a mutha for 45 mins. I had a dream last night I was racing cross, too bad I had to wake up.

I have to drive tomorrow so I’ll probably go for a run when I get home. I’ll commute Tuesday and Wednesday, drive in on Thursday and go running when I get home, followed by commuting on Friday. That’s the plan anyway, we’ll see how it plays out…

All this self coaching leads to a lot of ambiguity, and unanswered questions. I’m trying to go by my gut, train smart and leave out emotion, that folks is hard to do. I really would like to be doing the weekly crits, but I think it would be detrimental to me at this point.

Miles ridden today, 41

Miles ridden 2008, 1283

Cheers!