Off Season

When I posted about hiking up the Manitou Incline last Friday morning, I said my coach didn’t like me doing it except during the off season. I had said a few weeks ago I was thinking of doing the Durango 100 if I was feeling fit. So that either means I’m not doing Durango or I no longer care what my coach says about doing the Incline.

I actually disagree with my coach on the Incline but I still haven’t been doing it during the race season. After all she does have her PhD in sport physiology and has done research at the Olympic Training Center. I participated in one of the studies she was involved in and that’s when I started calling it the Olympic Torture Center.

After RAAM I was all excited about getting back on the bike and doing some races on the mountain bike. It didn’t take too long to figure out that I had way too much to do around the house to be able to do any serious training. Julie and the kids also want to see more of me. Looking at my bank account once all the RAAM expenses were paid also helped in deciding not to do Durango.

For now I’m going to try and keep some base fitness and do a few more long rides to get the Larry Schwartz award. The Larry Schwartz award is from the UMCA for riding a century each month of the year. Actually you only have to do 12 centuries in 10 months of the year because you can make up 2 months. I haven’t missed a month yet this year and I’ve done 33 rides that qualify. That means I can get the award by doing a century in 3 of the remaining 5 months of the year. I’ve already reached the Platinum level in the Year-Rounder Challenge because of riding over 5,000 miles in long rides. Last year was the best I’ve done before when I rode 3382 miles.

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