Home again - After only spending four of the last 84 days at our apartment in Glendale, I'm back for a whole month.
The weather's pretty much the same as it is in Chicago right now, maybe even a little cooler - perfect for getting back on the bike and into shape in time for “stoopid-week”. I actually made it a whole 90 minutes on the bike today relatively pain free (as long as I kept it between 150 and 200 watts). The plan is to do a 3-hour ride this weekend and shoot for about 10 hours total this week on the bike, with an additional 1 to 2 hours of stretching and strengthening every day. I’ll shoot for 14 next week with 2, 3-hour rides and 1, 4-hour ride. It’s a pretty aggressive recovery schedule, but as long as I focus on eating and sleeping right I should be fine.
In more interesting news, check out chicagobikeracing.com. Maybe I’m the last to find out about it (thanks to Susan P. for the tip), but Luke Seemann has put together an informative and entertaining blog/site about all things related to the Midwest cycling scene (I believe he aims for a four driving radius of the city).
tangent: I find it ironic and humorous that with all the advances in web programming and hardware, the most popular sites are still all about information and maybe some storytelling – namely blogs and youtube videos. None of us want to bother with fancy, and mostly annoying, sites that take forever to load and have too much going on… just give us the good stuff. /tangent
Last but not least, if you’re under the age of 19 or over the age of 39 and looking for a fun race close to to home on Father’s Day, be sure to check out the ABD MaJORS event this Sunday at an all new course in Elgin - Terry and Jenny always round up a great ABD crew and put on a fun event!
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