Feeling a Bit Tired

December 30th, 2005

Yesterday I planned to ride at lunch time but just couldn’t drag myself out. It was in the mid 50’s but at lunch time the wind was gusting around 20 mph and earlier in the morning it had hit 57 mph at the Reed Ranch weather station which is near where I work. A lot of days I would have still gone out but I felt really wiped out and would have had trouble dragging out even without the wind.

Once I thought about it, I wasn’t suprised I felt the way I did. Last Friday I did about a 2.5 hour group. Saturday I hiked up the old Manitou Incline and then back down Barr Trail. Sunday was Christmas and I spent it with family but we did go to Seven Falls and I carried Danielle, who is about 25 pounds, up about 400 steps between going up to Eagle’s Nest and the stairs by the falls. It has been years since they’ve had the stairs by the falls opened at Chistmas time.

Monday I put in a 100 miles on the road. Tuesday I rode easy for a little over an hour on the Santa Fe Trail. Tuesday was a fairly mellow 2 hour group ride at lunch. That’s certainly more training than I’ve been doing lately so I’m sure a day off the bike was a good thing.

Today I was thinking of going downtown and riding with the group that meets at Acacia Park at 12:30 during the week. My plan is to ride between 90-100 miles tomorrow and I decided it would be better to ride by myself and take it easy. I went and did a short loop through Garden of the Gods.

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170 Days Until RAAM Start

December 22nd, 2005

It is now 170 days until the start of RAAM 2006. In a way this seems like a long time but considering the training and everything else I need to do, it seems too short. I consider November 1st as the start of my training and I rode my bike 21 times in November and hiked once.

I haven’t been worried about getting lots of training time in but just trying to be consistent. In August I was working way too much and only was on the bike 12 times. I still was able to ride a RAAM qualifying time at the Adirondack 540 in September but certainly wasn’t the way to train so I’m trying not to let that happen leading up to RAAM.

This month I haven’t been as consistent as in November because of some very cold weather and being sick. Once night it was -16 degrees when we went to bed which is the coldest it’s been in nearly 10 years. I also was sick and didn’t feel like doing any training most of last week so I guess the timing of the cold weather wasn’t bad. Yesterday it was in the 50’s and it is again today so I’m back to training outside on the bike.

As always I weigh too much. One of my big challenges is to lose 20 lbs before RAAM. It should be doable but will require more to be very disciplined with my eating. I lost over 20 lbs a view years ago by tracking everything I ate in DietPower but I gained it back last winter when I took 4 months off the bike to gut a third of the house and remodel it.

My thyroid doesn’t really work any more and although I’m on medication it’s so easy to gain weight and really hard to get rid of it. I’m not far from being obese by the BMI measurement but I’ve always been bulky. When I was in high school, one of the employees at the local bike shop kept telling me I should be a body builder instead of a cyclist but I love being outside too much to ever consider doing that.

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