With the last entry I could follow up with about agabillion lines of philosophical garbage but it would just take up space.

Let me get to the details of this training week -

Aside from my training, this past week sucked hard.  Many things caught me off guard leaving me a bit raw and uncertain...Moments like this are good for the psyche though, it shakes us out of the trees that we sometimes get comfortable in.., ( going back the bear analogy )

But I am alive and well, last week didnt kill me because of a powerful little tool called   "choice".

Sometimes what happens to us creates a belief system that can turn ugly and control the rest of our choices. A victim of our own self-depricating thoughts.

I had a pretty big training week to be finished up with 2 x 6 hour rides back to back.

The training week looked like this;

Monday - 3  hrs

Tuesday - 1 hour active recovery

Wednesday - Anaerobic Intervals - 20 x 20 sec/10 sec sprint

Thursday - Active recovery - but it turned into 1 hour easy, 1 hours ALL OUT EFFORT - hey, just needed to exercise "choice"

Friday - 6 hours - I started at 11:00 on the Computrainer and rode for a couple of hours, then I rode the SPIN bike for a whiule following up with teaching a SPIN class and then an extra hour of recovery ride thereafter

I could have easily blown off that last hour but my crew chief called and kept me straight, kept me true to the plan....

Saturday - 6 hours - I left the house at 3:30AM and was on the Computrainer at 4:00AM sharp.  I sent a text with pic to my crew chief for proof.  The plan was to ride 6 hours easy.

I rode the computrainer again maintain an easy 150 - 200 watts on level 3 manual mode

My legs / knees were a little sore but keeping a high cadence was good...2 hours passd and the suyn began to rise.  The predicted temp was 65 degrees...It was 33...

I grabbed a cup of coffe and was on the bike again at 6:30 leaving from the HOS500 start.  It was 35 degrees....I was freezing!

I rode out the upcoming race route and picked up a small group...something about cyclists, triathletes, we always get into a pissin match.  Uphill we went.  The pace was much faster than expected and faster than I wanted but it felt good.

40 miles later I turned and went for more....I picked up yet another 2 riders, Herron and Ramey...these guys can roll and so when they tried to pass, I responded...Were these guys really trying to drop me?  Geez! I was just minding my own business and all the sudden were popping of 26-28 mph no problem..

They turned off and I kept rolling up through Sicard hollow working each hill like there was no tommorrow and my head was almost straight from the previous week. 

Upcoming week - They are all big weeks from here on.  I get 2.5 days rest Then I have 19 hours in 3 days to get in...