Revelation...what can happen on a recovery day...

Recovery days are ultimately essential to overall improvement in performance. Recovery doesn't mean sitting around eating pizza and drinking beer. You can still be active but not at s strenuous level. My choice is usually the elliptical. So that's how I rolled yesterday. With the level of training and my overall busy schedule it often overwhelming and sometimes emotional. But I had a revelation yesterday that has allowed me to take it all in better stride. No details. Just a personal aha moment that came at the right time.

Embracing indoor rides because I'm not brave enough for negative temps.

And this is why I brave the indoors. But admit I'm hoping for more forgiving temps next weekend as my saddle time goes to over 5 hours. 

Cold weather training. Wish I had a thicker skin so I could get outside more often...

Days are getting longer, more daylight and longer rides

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Trying to find a balance between training outside and trainer rides and cross training. By February I'm typically getting tired of riding inside, but often the weather does not cooperate for this cold weather baby. But I know warmer temps are coming soon so I'll just deal with taking 20 minutes putting on multiple layers just to go for a ride. 

Easy 1 hour ride day.

Was able to squeeze in my training "ride" over lunch due to some cancellations on my schedule at work. So what do I get to do with all this free time after work. Yep, chores.

Enough said..

Hope I can keep the momentum going.

Tough weekend of training. This required a lot of self talk to keep pedaling. But I did it. Today was 2 1/2 hours on the trainer watching Fury. Not sure if it's cheating but wore compression gear today.