Up and Coming

I am not much in the mood for a cold ride. More work, less ride today. Less riding equals more time to think about riding and make plans to ride. Like planning to do a race. It is the planning that will burn your ass in one way or another. I always seem to plan for a race, which is the easy part, but the commitment to training for a specefic or even a random event seems to never happen. So I suffer and suffer and make all sorts of promises to myself during the race at anaerobic threhsold. "Next year I will build a base, and then do intervals, and blah, blah, blah. So no more of that, at least not int the month of November. With that being said, that leaves Swank 65 out of my schedule again this year.

I guess Tour de Felasco will be my next organized event. I would encourage your participation in this fantastic event but it filled up less than two days after registration began. But luckily I am in, so is my old friend Albert and also my buddy Wayne, a transplant from Jamaica (see pic below, Wayne is the Chinese Jamaican on the right).

Also on the horizon a monthe after the Tour de Felaso is a possible trip to Tucscon, AZ. May race 24 hrs in the Old Pueblo, may not. I will let fitness or wifey make the call, I bet both say no. You have got to check out TucsonMTB.com. A great website with all the information formated to where any tourist idiot like me can come wander around on your favorite local trails. Every city with mountain biking in there vicinity should have as good a website. I do love the arid dry riding, what a change from here in the Southeast.