Eating Right, Training Harder

Been busy with a lot of stuff, but still managed to squeak out 100kms last week of riding. Nothing spectacular. This week I'm going to start to seriously work on my eating habits again. I've been eating some pretty naughty food lately *Read: 4 italian sausages with full trimmings* in one run. No weight gain, and good for the soul for sure, but makes me feel sluggish. Also, skipping lunch bad.

I got in a 30KM ride this weekend. I feel strong, but get bored with the ride. I could easily extend this to 50km or so. I think I may need to start implementing my one "mother of god" ride every month. Mind you with 8 hour and 24 hour races starting up, shouldn't be an issue.

I've ridden the single speed a crapload lately... I really can't explain how it feels to ride it apart from that it spans a lot of different feelings. I'm kinda pissed I don't have gears on the road. Then I get to the forest, and it climbs and trucks like nothing. 32/19 is almost a bit too easy, but on the steepest hill in Heber which is about a 300m ride and about 300ft of climbing in that, I truck that sumbitch like nothing. I'm more gassed cause I'm sprinting up the hill rather then just chugging up. If I take my time I'm strong at the top. If I sprint, I'm up that hill fast, but I'm a bit too mouthbreather for my liking. Either way, it's not like it kills me, and I do it about 3-4 times per ride. Then on the ride home I'm just giddy cause I love the bike so I don't care anymore about the road, so I don't complain anymore.

Kinda like this:

I'm unsure of how this is going to affect my racing in long events. The CX bike really works for me for climbing now that I've figured out gearing a bit. I still hate the fact that I'm not kind to derailleurs.. they never stay true for more then 3-4 rides. I imagine that its because I still don't have a very smooth pedal stroke. I'll also blame it on stand and crank SS bike.... but I doubt I can keep that up for 90+ KM in a 24h.

We'll see though, I still blame the P2A leg freeze on poor nutrition / hydration during the race.

Hamstring injury is keeping me from running right now, I can tough out biking, but my god that stupid thing is making baseball more painful then it should be..... also makes sitting more painful then it should be. My own dumb fault for being a smartass.

Anyway, flirting with low 250s right now, this bodes well for me to be 240s by the time the first 24 hour shows up.

Training continues.