Had some grand training plans this weekend, but they got derailed by a
plumbing emergency instigated by our puppy (it turns out she likes to
chew on
anything). It's mostly our fault for staying out late the night of the
BikeBeat presentation on their ride across America; the puppy expressed her disatisfaction in no uncertain terms.
I ended up just getting a 1 hour spin class and a 1 hour run in, which
is way too low for a weekend leading up to a big race. There are
only 5 weekends left until the 30-hour north Georgia "one day extreme"
race and I'm not nearly where I'd like to be. I really need
several training sessions of 4 hours or more. I'll have to
compensate with some early mornings and some very long weekends coming
up, but time is not on my side.
Citizen Rider, a comrade here at
CycleBetter, made an insightful remark about cold and wet winter training in his
latest post on his way to biking 4000 miles for 2005:
You have to have bad enough judgement to be out there, but good enough judgement to be able to handle it.
That about sums it up! Here's to me having more
bad judgement to get out there and train frequently, and enough
good judgement to handle it.