Blogging has been very unwieldy to me recently. I'm not saying I forgot how to do it, nor that the tech is over my head, it's just that "impetus" and "time" are not lining up. Sprinkle in some lack of motivation, and burning eyes, and here we are. Sub-par blogging updates from me.
My old site, swiii.com, lost it's hosting as I forgot to pay for it. I'm hoping I was able to keep all those pictures, although I have a feeling they are lost. Maybe I have them somewhere. That would be a bummer. At least I still have the naming rights to swiii.com, and I've re-directed them here. At least I think I have; it's not working yet.
I had a 3-day weekend, and it seems like it was only 1.25 days long. Friday night I had a tremendous time out at the Lawrence River Trails. 12 other souls went out around 9pm for a night ride, and it was awesome. Night riding is fun in itself, but when everyone turns their lights off and rides by the light of the full moon, that is something altogether special. We all formed a nice line and had great flow through the trees. Despite what my old friend Max said, I don't think I'd try this out somewhere more technical. LRT is pretty smooth, with lost of smooth berms and little risers. We didn't finish until nearly 1 am, which is pretty late for this domesticated dad. I still got up early and made my dear wife a latte since our machine was broke for a long time.
I don't even remember what happened Saturday, but I'm sure it was fun. I do remember we watched "Due Date", and it was very funny. There were some points where you had to have giant suspensions of disbelief, but the comedy was good. Robert Downey Jr. was funnier than Zach Galifinakis, much to my surprise.
Sunday morning I got up early and headed out for a ride. I rode from home and finally found my way through the horse trail and got to ride Blue River Parkway (BuRP) and rode the surprisingly technical Wagon Wheel trail, and came back on Serengeti. I brought a trail map, but still had a vague idea of where I was. I had a lot of problems riding on Wagon Wheel, as my technical skills aren't very good anymore. Well, they never were that good. I do plan on riding it a lot though, as the stronger I am technically, the faster I'll be everywhere else.
I'm racing again on Sunday, and pretty excited although I know my fitness is teh suck. Well, not that bad, but I'm sure I'll get beat down pretty bad. This is more to blow out the cobwebs in prep for the State Championships on Dec 11.
I read somewhere that it is a 3:1 ratio of time losing fitness to time getting it back. Yes, that's confusing. What I mean is if you take a month off of riding or running or whatever you do, it'll take 3 months to get back to where you were. I don't know if I buy that, but if it is true, that would explain my results. And it would be further supported by the fact that all the fast guys ride year round, at least a few days a week. 6+ days a week during the season. I don't know if I could do that. But I think I should try and at least do 3 days a week, and that would be a vast improvement in my consistency.
That's all for now. Time to sharpen my toe spikes for this weekend's race.
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