The Workout Of The Day for Monday, 11.1.10 “November? Really?”
Howdy folks,
So, uh… holy crap. It’s…
Wow.
This season is going to be over before you know it. How’s it going for you, so far?
If you took the time to write down some goals and aspirations for this season, nows a pretty good time to pull them out and see how you’re doing.
Check some things off, right?
I went out to the races at Steilacoom today (yeah, still no riding for me. Blech…) Puh-ri-tee interesting stuff.
Takeaways from what I saw?
– Yeah, ya’all are right. By-and-large, the barrier skills still blow.
Seriously folks, wtf? Please, please practice this stuff. You make my heart sore and my brain ache…
– Strategy.
I saw a bunch of people who probably would have gotten some better results if they had just a little bit of a plan brewing during the race.
We’re going to talk about this more later in the week, but for now ask yourself this; are you ever making things happen in your races, or are you always just reacting to the moves made by the other riders?
Think about it…
– Gear.
The state of people’s gear is head and shoulders above where it was even a couple of years ago (thank you bike industry!) but I still see/hear some crazy stuff, like the guy running into the pit trying to borrow a wheel to replace the Dugast-shod one he just flatted.
Really?
You have $100 + tubulars on, and you don’t bring pit wheels?
Oy…
On a positive note, I did see some great riding out there. Super nice to see the people who have been working hard on the details being rewarded with positive results.
Really, really inspiring stuff.
On that note, how about a Workout Of The Day, eh?
You probably saw this one coming from a mile away, but here it is anyway. Today we’re doing –
Your basic good-ole Recovery Ride.
Get on your bike. Roll out into the street, and just spin around for an hour.
Really small gear, no hard efforts – heck, no medium effort. Spin. You’re looking to move your legs around in circles, almost like there is no chain on the bike. The idea is to get your body moving, flush the systems out, and speed your recovery.
When you do your recovery ride -if you have the time- just get out and spin aimlessly. At a certain point, your legs suddenly feel better. Sometimes this takes 1/2 an hour, sometimes it takes 2 hours. After a while, when you get used to having the recovery ride as part of your routine, you know it when you feel it.
As soon as that happens, turn around, go home, eat, stretch, and put your legs up.
Don’t forget to do some core work today, if you can’t force yourself to stuff it into your schedule later in the week!
G’night,
M
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