I’m trying to come back……

I’ve been pretty busy lately so I haven’t been on the bike much at all.  As of right now I only have around 200 miles in for the month, pathetic!  This month I only have three days off of work and I am out of town ten days.  That makes it tough to get much riding / training in.  Actually, all I get in is riding these days, no training at all.  I generally get in a nice Tuesday night ride and then try to get in one or two more rides in during the week.  The past two Tuesday nights we have all gotten completely soaked.  We went ahead with the rides though.

Anyway, I did do a road race on the 4th of July and suprised myself.  Even though I haven’t been training and I have gained ten pounds I’m still riding rather strong.  I didn’t get a podium or anything but I did survive without getting dropped.  To me that was a victory in itself because this was a very difficult race.

Now, to the trying to come back part.  I’m not really trying to come back to racing since I plan to take most of the remainder of the year off.  I am trying to get back into some type of shape though.  This week I made it to the gym three mornings and I did one good ride so far.  I plan on doing a century tomorrow so I am staying off of the bike this evening.  I am hoping to have a pretty strong core and a decent upper body for the Spring road races next year.  One thing I really want to work on is my sprint.  To do this I think I need to develop some upper body strength.  I also need to lose some weight.  When I weighed myself on Monday I weighed a whopping 183.  I feel like Shamu, this is pathetic.

I’m going to take my time and try to get down to around 165 – 170 in the next couple of months.  Then this winter I am going to start concentrating on trying to build up some type of spring.  Racing cat 4’s and hopefully cat 3’s later on I’m really going to need to have a sprint.

Anyway, that’s pretty much what is going on with me.  Now, wish me luck with sticking with my plan.

~ by lowcel on July 20, 2007.