Miner's Blog is back ladies and Gentleman. Not that it actually went anywhere, I just haven't had that much to blog about recently. For all of my riding friends out there, I'm happy to say that I'm finally, finally back on the bike. I think it's safe to say that I have started training for the 2009 road racing season. Let me just start things off here by saying that my season will once again be different this year. I am registered to run the Cleveland Marathon in May. Therefore a lot of my training time will be dedicated to that event. That being said, I learned my lesson last fall by putting all of my eggs in one basket. I got hurt and couldn't do anything. This year I am dedicated to finding that right balance between running and cycling hoping that somehow each can be supportive of the other. Since I am not a gifted athlete in either discipline, this will most likely result in me being mediocre at best this year. Good news for my competition...bad news for my teammates.
I have assembled my training program for the year and as I can make it more user friendly to look at, I'll post it here online. Currently, it's a bunch of scribble that only I could decipher. In short though, it looks like this, I'll be running four days a week and riding my bike three days a week. I'll have one rest day which will most likely occur on Mondays. Riding time right now consists of me on my trainer at 5:00 am in the basement. Not ideal as I've turned into a non-morning person but I've got to get it in when I can and unfortunately that's it. I've always tried to keep the training as invisible to my family as possible so I don't sacrifice quality family time. With the kids now getting older, that's leaving me to these ungodly hours of the day. I'm hoping this can change a bit once the weather gets out nicer but I'm not holding out much hope.
One thing is for sure, the running can't be sacrificed on the weekends as that's when I need to do my marathon pace runs as well as my long runs. Cycling and unfortunately racing will be determined day by day as I can't blow the prep for the 26.2. in May.
I'm really looking forward to training on the bike which I can honestly say isn't something I was all that excited about even 2 weeks ago. I think this later start will do me a lot of good too. Normally I train hard starting in November but come May, I'm completely spent. Now, I should start to really feel good in May or June, when it really counts and when the weather is pretty decent. I'm hoping that this leads to an overall longer cycling season for me this year. We'll see, only time will tell.
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