Outdoor Addict

Yesterday, weather wise, was kind of awful. I spent most of the day watching racing. The morning was the daily installment of the Tour and the evening was the Nascar race. Luckily between the 2, the weather broke, things dried and I got out on the bike again. I must say it was rather nice. I didn’t try to push myself to hard or work to hard, I just wanted to spin the legs being it has been 3 weeks since I have been on a bike and only been out of surgery for less than a week. I must say, with my personality that it was hard not to want to ride hard, but I did my best. I did about 18 miles averaging 18.04 mph which I thought was ok. I certainly did lose a lot of fitness. With about a month to go until the 24 hour race, I have a bunch of work today. I think this week I will start of slow, building towards the weekend, and then next week, hit it hard, really hard, for 2 weeks. My plan is simple. Ride hard and ride often.. Being this is roughly 75% carriage roads, I plan on doing most of my riding on the road bike. I feel like my technical skills are alright so the mt bike will be put on hold for now. I figure to make up sometime , I will dig out the fixed gear and really work the legs. I suspect some good times will follow in these next couple of weeks.