6 degrees on the remote out door thermometer.. with a 10-15 mph wind out of the north (i live south of work) we all piled in and carpooled. The whole family. Dropping off one by one until only the furthest passenger was left driving. Fortunately that is my wife (and not one of the girls). The daunting task of collecting the required layers to successfully ride to work in those temps was not helping the motivation. The cold, the fact that i rode the trainer (yeah, freaking intervals on the trainer) last night and the bigger problem of a hangover of sloth-like inertia from the break amounted to zero motivation to get on and ride in. Tomorrow? maybe, but i'll probably defer and just get on the trainer again tonight and carpool in the morning again.
Cruising through the open tabs, Patrick O'Grady's comments on 1/2 made me thing of Big Jonny and his constantly dying PCs. And it brings back fond memories of my first computer, a 512k Mac. Wicked cool box. Killer computer.
Pop over to Pedal Pushers if you haven't yet. They got some CX Nats coverage.
And speaking of reading. Go read some truely well written stuff:
It is a story titled "A Christmas Cookie" (it isn't a short read, but well worth a bit of reading over lunch).
As i was rolling my sore legs with the stick before bed (from the trainer and the running) my wife wondered if i should get some mental training type DVDs to watch while i'm riding the trainer or the rollers in the bike room. I got wondering if such thing exists. I'm a huge fan of Marvin Z's articles written for PEZ (they just revisited one of them). And out of anyone i probably might benefit extensively from that end of coaching. But that whole notion of DVD mental training was somewhat interesting. There is at least one, but it is $250... ouch... might as well sign up with Marvin Z for a few session... none of that is happening though. How to toughen up? race harder races. Keep racing and pushing myself till i learn to manage the suffering to my advantage. Throwing money at it might get faster sooner, but, it also removes the pathway of learning and the knowledge gained with experience along the way.
Riding in the bike room when it is in the teens and windy is nice. Although i started off cold and shivering after the 10-15 minutes of warm up spinning at 100-120rpm i had stripped my jersey off and started over heating. I just did a randomize set of hard intervals following the warm up. Out of the saddle sprints for a bit longer than was comfortable to hold, a few seated low cadence power grinding minutes, more out of the saddle sprinting... all while watching the 2nd Pirates movie. That Depp guy? He's freaking awesome. And Legolas? He's good too. and that gal, kira? Mmmmmm... Good cast. The speakers on the lap top are barely capable of being loud enough to really listen to the sound over the trainer. But it was enough. When will people realize you can get way more than you think out of things with an impression. Clarity in the audio and visual domain are overrated and the basically cut the achillies of your imagination.
Why train with an iPod if you can't race with one? Why not learn to mentally suffer alone without stupid headphones shoved in your ears? "It is much easier to ride the trainer with an iPod"
yeah cause like bike racing is easy...
but i'm just a Vox Clamantis in Deserto and not a pack leading points grabbing one at that.
Speaking of cross results, for the hell of it i checked my USAC results... WTF. that is a big giant cluster f. Lots of stuff i haven't done. Like that Chile Challenge? Man. I tell ya, that's a bunch of BOOO stuff... Colin's got some way bettah stuff. USAC should hire Colin as a consultant for their stuff.
okay - enough distracted ramblings for the morning -
peace
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I just watched pirates 3 last week. Then pirates 1 on tv. Kira was KASMOKIN' hot in 1, then she aged ever so nicely. Love the long neck. then in 3 they tanned her up. Good god she is hot...i may need a minute...
well, conversely, why ride the trainer and watch pirate movies? you can't race and watch pirate movies, so why don't you toughen up and train without it?
training has to be somewhat fun, at least for me. i am fully capable of keeping myself occupied while racing. it usually goes something like this:
ohshitohshitohsheeeeeeeeeeeet they are going to fast. getta wheel getta wheel. ugh. not THAT wheel. shift shift AGAIN fasterfaster faster. ugh!
good point meg... i ain't got a counter to that one ;)
other than...
riding the bike outside is a very visual experience. You are filming your own movie in your head as you go down the road or the single track. A documentary of the life of a cyclist. Visual stimulation/perception is far more analogous to racing than jamming some sensory deprivation device in your ears. A habit if continued on the road could lead to death. We don't want that.
counter? how about simply "Kira is SO HOT"
ummm, yah... works for me. preaching to the choir.
i prefer the bend it like beckam body... all super sporty, not twiggy and bony like she got for a while...
But...
isn't she a bit tall for you? with heals she'd tower over you!
huh
i do not film a movie in my head when i ride--interestingly, though, i do score a soundtrack. i am also an auditory learner. . .are you a visual learner?
neat stuff. . .
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