It is time to get back out there. I am mentally preparing for a training ride the way I used to prepare for a race. I am nervous, I am mentally going through checklists of what I need to have set out, what I should eat tonight, what tomorrow will be like, if I will get dropped and so on. What do I have to worry about? Nothing really I will be fine, I just feel like I am stepping back in when training is more than half over and I have less fitness than I can really remember. I feel slightly like an outsider too, no bike bonding time with my teammates in such a long time. Many I have never ridden with at all. Got to just get back out there.
I have been on the maiden voyage with my new rain bike Reid built for me. Nashbar aluminum frame, carbon fork and seat post, disc breaks, all black with silver accents it is good lookin' and the fit is perfect. My plan is to drive to the start, I never do that I always add my 6mile bike commute to the ride but tomorrow just making it to Seward with the team is going to be a challenge, then (hopefully) spinning back to Zoka's for our post team ride meet up. If I am lucky I will get back before they do after they head to Jones Rd and back. Ha! (that is a joke, I betta' be back before them or I might as well put on some tyvek, buy me a recumbent and call it good)
Maybe I will see you out there tomorrow, hope so I really miss all my biking buddies!
Friday, January 16, 2009
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