get anything done?
dogs are now up to date on their shots, and shopping is done, and that's it..
slept like shit for the last three/four nights... woke up after pizza dinner last night to a very irritated eye, been struggling with that all day on top of everything else.
days off are good, today was almost a day off.... almost...
but then if you're not working 7 days a week then you're falling behind.
Bike race analogy, if you feel like you're holding your own you're really going backwards. you need to constantly be aware of position and actively working/moving forward. If not? Why bother racing?
Yes, I want to get faster .... or get back some of the speed I had when someone gave me some in '13. I know that riding 50-70 miles/day is not the way to do it and yeah, maybe two big long all day rides planned this year, one of them will be on my birthday, maybe Goldberg can come out of retirement for it.... Kind of want do do the double C but that's pretty dumb and super counter productive.
may need to bribe negacoach into giving me advice i could probably give myself if i wasn't such a fucking moron.
one more hundo...
also, still haven't changed the flats on the beer truck or the black blue, and the rear brake on the SSCX is totally fucked at the moment. I should have worked on the bikes today while it was nice out, but i went food shopping and cooked dinner instead.
hopefully i can make it to work tomorrow on the SSCX... probably should start thinking about the lecture, that or just go to sleep... instead of listening to the Against Me! radio.... aka lots of Frank Turner in rotation...
"Half way through the first day of the week..." (that'll be me tomorrow)
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You can do a lot on a solo training ride. I am not a huge Hunter Allen fan but the so-called "kitchen sink" ride can do amazing things for you. Traditional training advice of breaking out sprints, climbing, tempo provides a nice structure, but falls short of making you race-ready, and also requires five or six consistent days a week to produce the desired workload. The kitchen sink style ride is not new. Curley was prescribing something similar 25 years ago, and he learned it from Kockli ten years before that. You can create as much training stress in 3-3.5 hours as you would in 6+ riding steady. It's hard, but it's not THAT hard as you're by yourself. Even if you don't have time for the whole thing. Doing a sprint every five minutes during an hour of light tempo works wonders.
I think the challenge is mostly to figure out how to work it into the commute.
couple days a week maybe take the long way in, or the long way home but not just like in May last aka just to ride, this time more like that Kitchen sink stuff. I'm just trying to get through teaching and this semester and the last Hundo, then i'll see what I can do.
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