Today, no joining of the cycling hoards as they head down the bike path to Bristol. Sleep, home, together as a family. First time everyone has been home w/o anything else going on in months. Working all the time balanced with my wife's races, occasionally working on Sundays, Soccer games and who knows what else. Hard to believe we are already in July.
Saw this on Twitter today:
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/07/05/sports/SPTSCROSS0705.html?ref=sports
So still want a black and white digital camera, well at least one that I have a hope and a prayer of affording if i do enough side work.
I guess that's one huge reason why the recent grant denial was tough, so many hopes pinned on the increase in potential pixel acquisition, not to mention the total flexibility in being able to look at uncoated samples. Art plans smashed in the nuts. Insult to injury in the, surprise it will cost you an arm and a leg to mount those three, not just a reasonable sum. (that punctuation looks wrong, but fuck it, I'll be sure to get a good copy editor if i ever am crazy enough to write a book).
No 4th of July ride here. Hoping maybe something tomorrow. I'd love to get enough sleep maybe to make it out to dawn patrol on Saturday. We'll see how the next couple of days go. Sleep is a priority. Too far in the deficit, am managing but only with serious amounts of coffee.
Cyclocross starts soon. It will be here before we realize. So much to do. Annual debate regarding running. Do I do any this year or just work on running with the bike up the stairs as part of the daily commute, always over thinking things. Maybe that's where the coaching thing would be good. Just do what they say, no thinking, just do it. For now, I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing which is hard or easy, nothing in between. Get through the TT series, figure out when I can do my long ride in July. Right now an idea that seems appealing is to ride up to Skinnywhite dude's house in Rye, NH, then home the next day. The overnight kind of screws it all up. The only way i've been able to make these happen is picking a day when everyone else is occupied and not inconvenienced by my disappearance. We'll see. Maybe July is just a speed run to Barrington Coffee Roasters there downtown. As much as you can call a speed run into the heart of the city.
Randomly just tossing words out now. Finally a chance to just unwind. Woke up in time to catch the last 60k of the TdF today. Bummer for the dudes who crashed, lucky for the GC guys that it was w/in the time cut, well done Gripel. Nice.
Dog is now beginning the beg for food routine. "Dude get off your ass feed me!" "No, Lucy, you gotta wait, I need to buy me a few minutes of sleep in the morning before you wake me up."
This morning was nice, only 6am wake up, it was raining and my first thought stumbling down the stairs to let her out was "shit, I have to ride to work in the rain." Oh... wait... it is the 4th! Sweet. BACK TO BED!
Operation Sleep Doping.
We'll see how long I stay awake tonight...
heddwch
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(no TT tomorrow = rest week continues)
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I have been going back and forth about how to go about cx this season. I am committing to the run this summer. My first run was horrible. And so humbling. But I am just going to stick with it. It is probably my biggest weakness in cx. I get that a lot of people don't do it. But they are fast and I am not. I need all the help I can get.
Not going to go crazy with it. Just 2 times a week. Build up. Do some stairs and hills once I get some running fitness. Then speed work. Which will build into barrier work etc
This year I am really going back to the basics. I think I have gotten sloppy over the last couple of years. I have focused on getting faster and lost focus on all the technical stuff...good thing to obsess on I think
my debate with running is that we just don't have much in New England, until NBX.
Nothing long enough to merit more than doing those Compton triple drills (Run with bike at sprint up hill, coast on bike, sprint on bike, repeat - or something like that).
With unlimited time and a Pro schedule I could guess that a couple times a week would be good, and esp if you have a job/lifestyle that is sedentary or seated.
Time. Some old dude suggested to worry about getting fast on the bike first. Until then you can be a crazy fast runner and still finish DFL.
I'm going to guess that the MTB thing is helping you a serious amount. You're riding and testing yourself and pushing the brain to do different things, the challenge, in a complementary way to CX, is going to pay dividends.
back to why i won't? the 30 minutes running would be better spend doing 20s intervals until I puke, or add a few minutes and do some 20min intervals.
But you are hitting the nail on the head, losing focus on the technique, the cx specific stuff, is never good, must keep that in mind even when trying to go fast.
Bottom line. Gotta be fast on the bike. Power can overcome handling more than handling/running can hide lack of fitness/speed on the bike.
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