In one of my somewhat recent posts, I mentioned being absent from racing and blogging but that I was hoping to make a change. Well apparently that hasn't happened yet. I'm not really sure what is going on right now but I can't seem to get out of this rut of not being able to do any riding, let alone racing. Apparently, Life doesn't understand that this mediocre Cat4 racer needs substantial time on my bike to be at least somewhat competitive. With what used to be 4 or 5 days of riding per week has now trickled down to maybe one day...if I'm lucky.
At the end of last season, my goal for this year was to be riding well enough to upgrade to Cat 3.....maybe next year. I'm not complaining here (well, sort of I guess) as my ride time seems to have been replaced by more family time, working with my co-director at Elves & More on the upcoming bike giveaway and of course...work. I hope to somewhat salvage something of this season shortly but there are two races that I am committing myself to race in. One is the Orrville Smith's Dairy Milk Race in Mid-August and the other is Allied Decal's (Summit's) Fall Challenge. The guys at Orrville always put on a good event and since the route is mostly flat, I have a chance of at least hanging onto the back of the group. The Fall Challenge race course is about 5 miles from my house so it's hard to turn that one down, even considering all of the climbing that will be involved. Again, the guys at Allied Decals do so much for the sport in terms of all the events that they hold, that I like to make as many of their events as possible.
In addition to planning on racing in those two events, I'm currently back into training to compete in a 10k leg of the upcoming Akron Marathon. My office always has two teams in this fun event and for the past several years I have run the leg that goes from the University of Akron down to Sand Run Parkway. The last time I ran, I completed it in just over 43 minutes. This year my ambition is to run it in sub 40 minutes. Not sure how feasible this is but because of that aggressive goal, I've been doing a lot more running the past month then I typically like to do (which by the way, I don't really enjoy running). It's always at this time of the year when I always ask myself, why am I doing this and why didn't I just continue running throughout the year as then it wouldn't hurt so much. I never seem to learn my lesson because now I am trying to come back after not running for almost two years. Ouch.
Well, I'll do my best to keep my blog updated with some relevant info over the next few weeks until I can post another race report. Here's hoping that your season is going much better than mine.
brian
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