Closure

I've been back on the bike for two weeks now, and couldn't be any happier. Even though my riding has been temporarily reduced to 1-2 hours a day, it's still riding. The four weeks that I was off the bike there wasnt a day that went by where the thought or just riding my bike raced across my mind. There are times where your dragging yourself up a 30 + minute climb and suffering in 40 degree weather and you think to yourself " Man, I would kill to get off my bike right now." But when your riding privileges are taken away from you all you can think of is suffering up that climb in 40 degree weather. That's the most enjoyable part of the sport(to me that is.)

Although I was off the bike for four weeks, I haven't raced my bike for two months! Its come to the point where I honestly don't care what race I do, I just want to get out there and race my bike. Rain, snow, wind whatever. But, I've learned to be patient and give my body the proper amount of time it needs to recover and heal. Sure I can make goals and time lines of when I want to be back on the bike, but in all honesty its not up to me. It's up to my body. Lets say your at Disneyland and you want to go one of the more popular rides there and you get there and the wait is like two hours. Then there's the other line right next to it called the fast track and the wait is like two minutes? Well that's exactly how I feel right now. My mind just wants to go go go. But by body has other plans.


I'm about to ramp up the training once again for the rest of the season a.k.a the second half. Overall it was a good rest period for me mentally and physically. For the rest of the season I will be getting results to secure a spot on a team that I'm looking to join for the 2012 season. Some of those races are Cascade and Tour de Nez. I'm very confident for Cascade. I know the courses well since they are the same courses that they used for Nationals last year. I'll give an update later down the road to let you guys know how the training is going. Thanks for reading.

Healing

Sorry that I haven't updated this thing in awhile. The truth is, there hasn't really been a whole lot to talk about. My knee has taken a little longer to heal than expected. But it has definitely started to get better. I know in my previous post I said that it was Bursitis. Well turns out that was the wrong diagnosis. I actually have Patella Femoral (PF.) So basically my outer quad muscle, my IT band, was so tight that it was pulling my knee into an irregular position. Stretching daily has really helped. My next race I'm hopefully going to be able to do is the Pescadero Road Race. If I'm not ready by then, I'll be going back up to Oregon for the Cascade Cycling Classic.