I have a lot to say, so I guess I just have to write chronologically, because that is at least some kind of organization. Today I raced the Lake Sunapee Road Race. Back in 2013 it was my second road race ever; I came in 3rd in the W4 field after some over-zealous pulling and not being able to handle …
NECX
Nervous Nelly
Before races, training races, or even just big workouts … I want to quit. I don’t know if it is so much that I want to quit cycling, but, I definitely want to take the day off. It isn’t that I hate competing, I just hate the anticipation of it. There is just far too much to think of: what …
Satiation Deliberation
This post next to the last post pretty much explains my life – always confused in my desires to overeat with my desires to be healthy and lose weight and train smart. Maybe this is how every athlete feels? Hell, maybe how every person feels! My training is increasing. I had at one time planned to write out my general …
Californication
5 days have come and gone, and I have now returned to the land of the snowbanks. The weather in LA in unseasonably warm while we were there – what a delight! Inland temps reached into the 90’s some days, whereas we stayed on the coast were it got into the 80’s and the mornings were quite chilly – in …
So it begins
I have arrived in LA. Purpose: ride my bike. Season kick-off. Updates to follow.
Back in the Saddle
Since CXNats, I haven’t really ever felt that I was back to riding. Mostly because I have barely ridden. I have done some roller rides supplemented with skiing and running, but whatever I have been doing has been emergency-fitness-scavenge meets desperate-attempt-to-prevent-weight-gain. Neither of which have proven successful. Here I am, fat and slow, halfway through March. I am also sick …