Days off and a fun new training strategy
Looking forward to a long vacation from the mind-eraser. Almost 9 days straight that I get to work on my allotted 10 lb weight gain before Feb. All the beer and X-mas cookies seem to be doing the job nicely.
Its been wierd being off the bike for almost a week now. I think I’m almost recovered from the past few months of double-header races, and then the final nut-kick at nationals. Pretty soon I will start my “cross-training” plan (not cross in the cyclocross sense).
I have a totally new off-season strategy this year. I am going to have some fun playing basketball with the dudes here at work, and hopefully do some XC skiing (if it ever snows). I don’t think I’m going to lift weights like I’ve done in the past few years. I hate hanging around the work gym at lunch. Anyhow, I think racing mountain bikes gives you upper body strength aplenty to get the job done the rest of the year. All the road base training usually kills it by May in any event.
So fun cross-training, and I’ll throw in a few “fun” mountain bike rides, until I start the slow, cold road rides in Feb. or so. I wonder who I can get to go riding with me next week?
