Yesterday was a much needed rest day. I still did a short, fun 'cross ride around our neighboorhood with the family, but it was totally chill, no training load at all. So, today I had to get after it. Woke up early this morning for a 45 minute run with the dog. Then spent some time drilling the core and lifting my cx bike a bazillion times. Trying to get the busted up shoulder a little stronger before the racing starts.
Later in the afternoon I had time for a long ride, so I jumped (literally) on the 'cross bike for a 3 hour adventure. There are a ton of fun gravel/dirt roads around Belgrade that have some good short hard climbs on them. The route I chose was constantly up or down, so that makes it tough to get any sort of organized intervals in. I rode tempo whenever I could, and did all the climbs, and there were a bunch of them, at threshold or above. It was an awesome ride, just shy of 200 TSS, and I was pretty worked when I was done. Then, I got a quick bite to eat, and went to help with Mariah's soccer practice- more running for me! Another solid day of training in the books. Depending on how work goes tomorrow, I will either be doing more threshold intervals if I have to ride the trainer, or perhaps I'll get in some never pleasant microbursts. Friday will be a short recovery ride, then Saturday Tawnya and I will be in Ogden, UT. Tawnya has a class all day, the kids will be with grandma, and I'll be spending as much time as possible, shooting for 5-6 hours, exploring the roads and climbs around Ogden. It looks like there are some good ones, I should be able to make it hurt, at least a little!
Later, Brad
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009
LABOR DAY
Spent the morning at the BMX track with the kids. They raced hard and had fun. I had enough sense to stay off the track this time! Got in a pretty good ride the afternoon. Did about 2 hours on the 'cross bike, with some dirt and gravel roads thrown in the mix. Most of the ride was tempo pace with a few hard effort on some dirt climbs. After the ride, the kids and I did some barrier practice in the yard for about 1/2 hour. Mariah and Trey are both getting pretty good at dismounts and remounting their bikes. It's pretty fun to watch them. I, on the other hand, am definitely a little rusty, and need much more cx skills practice over the next few weeks. Finally, since I skipped out on my run last night, I took the dog for a 30 minute run, then came home and did some bike lifts and core work. It all added up to about 190 TSS. All in all a pretty good way to spend a day off of work. Tomorrow is a much needed rest day, then back at it hard on Wednesday.
Keep it PURE,
Brad
Keep it PURE,
Brad
Sunday, September 6, 2009
THRESHOLD WORK
Today was a great day. Started out early this morning with a couple hours of hiking up in the mountains with the wife and kids bow hunting for the elusive wapiti. No wapiti today, but we had a great time hiking and letting the kids blow the elk calls. We saw some elk tracks, a wallow, some deer, and got some good old fashioned excercise to boot.
This afternoon was so nice that I wanted to go out for a fun ride on the mountain or 'cross bike up in the woods, but I did that yesterday, and today I needed to get some good threshold work in. We (me and my 'cross bike, Chili) headed out to a flat section of highway where there's room for some good long intervals. I did three 20 minute full on threshold efforts. The first wasn't to bad, the second one hurt a little, and the third one was torture. I wanted to quit after about 5 minutes, but tried to ignore the pain and pushed it hard 'til the end. It's times like these that I always remember a saying that my old high school football coach used to tell us, "The body can go longer than the mind wants to let it." I think most competative cyclist know the deal on that. Often times when it's hurtin' bad, all you want to do is stop pedaling. You have to ignore the pain, or even learn to like it, and make yourself keep going. You have to train your mind, as well as your body to be a cyclocross racer, because usually about 5 minutes into a 60 minute race you're on the rivet and hurting bad, but you gotta keep pushing. I have a little mantra I repeat over and over in my head when it gets tough, "Gotta suffer to win, gotta suffer to win." Doing something like that can help take your mind off of the pain, and if you don't think about the searing pain in your legs and or lungs, it's not really there, is it? Easier said than done, I know.
Anyways, I had a great ride today and did the work I needed to do. 2 1/2 hrs total with the threshold intervals and the rest mostly zone 2 or 3. The TSS ended up at 193, and I am going to try and squeeze in a little run and some core work this evening, since I havn't done that for a few days. More fun to be had.
Keep it PURE,
Brad
This afternoon was so nice that I wanted to go out for a fun ride on the mountain or 'cross bike up in the woods, but I did that yesterday, and today I needed to get some good threshold work in. We (me and my 'cross bike, Chili) headed out to a flat section of highway where there's room for some good long intervals. I did three 20 minute full on threshold efforts. The first wasn't to bad, the second one hurt a little, and the third one was torture. I wanted to quit after about 5 minutes, but tried to ignore the pain and pushed it hard 'til the end. It's times like these that I always remember a saying that my old high school football coach used to tell us, "The body can go longer than the mind wants to let it." I think most competative cyclist know the deal on that. Often times when it's hurtin' bad, all you want to do is stop pedaling. You have to ignore the pain, or even learn to like it, and make yourself keep going. You have to train your mind, as well as your body to be a cyclocross racer, because usually about 5 minutes into a 60 minute race you're on the rivet and hurting bad, but you gotta keep pushing. I have a little mantra I repeat over and over in my head when it gets tough, "Gotta suffer to win, gotta suffer to win." Doing something like that can help take your mind off of the pain, and if you don't think about the searing pain in your legs and or lungs, it's not really there, is it? Easier said than done, I know.
Anyways, I had a great ride today and did the work I needed to do. 2 1/2 hrs total with the threshold intervals and the rest mostly zone 2 or 3. The TSS ended up at 193, and I am going to try and squeeze in a little run and some core work this evening, since I havn't done that for a few days. More fun to be had.
Keep it PURE,
Brad
Saturday, September 5, 2009
CYCLOCROSS IS ALMOST UPON US
OK, so I'm not sure if anyone actually reads this blog, especially since I got fired by Shaun at MTCX.com and removed from his favorite blog list. But hey, this summer has basically sucked for me, so blogging was the last thing on my mind. Due to a couple crashes on the BMX track, my road season was basically non-existent. Between injuries and mechanicals , I only had one race that went smoothly, in Belt, at least I took advantage of it and got the win. After that, things went south. Once I finally recovered a little from the broken collar bone, I decided to jump into the Tour de Bozeman, knowing I would get spanked. Having a flat just before the climbing started only made things worse. At the end I was cramping so bad I thought I was going to have to walk across the finish line. Not good. A week later, the family and I went to Missoula for the Zootown Throwdown. Eight year old Mariah jumped into the 10 yr old junior race, and held her own against a boy a little older than her. Trey then smoked the other youngsters in the 5 and under race, showing off the sprinting skills he develpoed at the bmx track. Then, both Mariah and Trey did the 6-10 race, Mariah winning and Trey hanging right in there with the older kids. Even my wife Tawnya couldn't resist the lure of the Throwdown, she raced in the women's field, and did great. I think she had fun, but you'll have to ask her to be sure. So, that left me. I woke that morning feeling a little sick, but decided to try and do what I could to help the team. My luck hadn't changed. About 5 laps in my bottom bracket seized up, race over. Those few hard laps really made me feel sick, and it turned into a three week sickness that had me feeling like crap. As my luck would have it, the illness brought on something called Bells Palsy, which causes the muscles in your face to become paralyzed, usually temporarily. For about a month now I have been unable to move the left side of my face. Can't blink my eye, can't take a drink without spilling it all over, and sleeping is a real chore. Probably the worst part is the vision in my left eye is always a little blurry, as I can't blink it and it seems to "water" all the time. This, more than anything, kept me off the bike for a while. This whole deal sucked pretty bad at first, but I'm starting to deal with it a little better now. And, today I was able to get just a teeny-tiny bit of movement on the left side. Hopefully, my daughter will only be able to call me "Half-face" for a little while longer.
So, where does that leave me know? In my last post, many moons ago, I was super stoked for 'cross season. Then I got sick and missed three weeks of training, when I was already behind. At that point, I threw in the towel. No 'cross and no training this fall, that's what I decided. Done deal. Once I made my mind up on that, it was almost a relief. I wouldn't have to experience all the pain of doing threshold and microburst workouts. No riding the dreaded trainer in the basement on those cold dark nights. No racing in the rain or snow. I could use my time to do so many other things. Well, after three weeks off the bike, it only took one short, easy ride for me to change my mind. What was I thinking? I live for the pain that training and racing provides. There is no way I can miss cyclocross season. NO WAY. I am a full fledged addict, no doubt about it. So I am gonna race, and have been back to training for a couple weeks now. I am way behind, and will have to be realistic and adjust my goals a little. I will not be doing Starcrossed, RAD Racing GP, or Crossvegas as I had planned. Those happen WAY to soon for the shape I am in. The early season races will be a little humbling for me probably, as I try to get back into racing shape. I still hope for a strong showing at Rolling Thunder, but that will come a little before I am able to reach peak fitness, so we'll have to see how it goes. I'm hoping to surprise myself. The good thing is that it is a long season, and hopefully this late start will help me maintain the motivation to train and race into December, and I'll be flying by the time Nats rolls around.
Now that I am back to training, I will try and post more frequently, and plan on at least adding a little info, perhaps daily, regarding my training. I figure that if at least one person is reading this, (wishful thinking, I know) and I have to post my workout, it may help me decide to get on the trainer instead of getting in bed and skipping a workout, which I cannot afford to do at this point. My cyclocross training motto for this season has become "every day counts." Really, this is true at all times in your training. Every day you skip is a missed opportunity to gain fitness or technique on your rivals. Of course, I'm not talking about rest days. Taking well planned rest days or blocks is an integral part of any training plan. When you rest is when your body adapts to the training load you have applied, and that's when you get stronger. So, every day counts, and I plan to train hard when I need to, and rest even harder when I have to. I can't wait for the real pain to start!
Being so far behind, I have decided to use a couple of weeks to build my threshold power before moving on to cyclocross specific drills. The last two weeks has been basically getting in some miles, riding tempo, and a few harder efforts here and there, nothing crazy, yet. Today's ride was a long ride with some sweet spot intervals. I did a 3 1/2 hr ride up Little Bear outside of Bozeman, almost all on gravel, with about 2 hrs of constant climbing. During the climb, I did several blocks of about 20 min where I maintained my sweet spot power, and went harder when it was steep. The legs didn't feel especially fresh today, and this was a tough workout. The hour descent was pretty sweet, though little bumpy on a cross bike. TSS for the ride was 165, bringing this weeks total so far to 590, and moving the CTL to a measly 72.3. Gotta get that higher over the next couple of weeks. More hard training coming up tomorrow, as well as a morning bow hunt for elk with the kids, should be fun. Thanks for reading.
So, where does that leave me know? In my last post, many moons ago, I was super stoked for 'cross season. Then I got sick and missed three weeks of training, when I was already behind. At that point, I threw in the towel. No 'cross and no training this fall, that's what I decided. Done deal. Once I made my mind up on that, it was almost a relief. I wouldn't have to experience all the pain of doing threshold and microburst workouts. No riding the dreaded trainer in the basement on those cold dark nights. No racing in the rain or snow. I could use my time to do so many other things. Well, after three weeks off the bike, it only took one short, easy ride for me to change my mind. What was I thinking? I live for the pain that training and racing provides. There is no way I can miss cyclocross season. NO WAY. I am a full fledged addict, no doubt about it. So I am gonna race, and have been back to training for a couple weeks now. I am way behind, and will have to be realistic and adjust my goals a little. I will not be doing Starcrossed, RAD Racing GP, or Crossvegas as I had planned. Those happen WAY to soon for the shape I am in. The early season races will be a little humbling for me probably, as I try to get back into racing shape. I still hope for a strong showing at Rolling Thunder, but that will come a little before I am able to reach peak fitness, so we'll have to see how it goes. I'm hoping to surprise myself. The good thing is that it is a long season, and hopefully this late start will help me maintain the motivation to train and race into December, and I'll be flying by the time Nats rolls around.
Now that I am back to training, I will try and post more frequently, and plan on at least adding a little info, perhaps daily, regarding my training. I figure that if at least one person is reading this, (wishful thinking, I know) and I have to post my workout, it may help me decide to get on the trainer instead of getting in bed and skipping a workout, which I cannot afford to do at this point. My cyclocross training motto for this season has become "every day counts." Really, this is true at all times in your training. Every day you skip is a missed opportunity to gain fitness or technique on your rivals. Of course, I'm not talking about rest days. Taking well planned rest days or blocks is an integral part of any training plan. When you rest is when your body adapts to the training load you have applied, and that's when you get stronger. So, every day counts, and I plan to train hard when I need to, and rest even harder when I have to. I can't wait for the real pain to start!
Being so far behind, I have decided to use a couple of weeks to build my threshold power before moving on to cyclocross specific drills. The last two weeks has been basically getting in some miles, riding tempo, and a few harder efforts here and there, nothing crazy, yet. Today's ride was a long ride with some sweet spot intervals. I did a 3 1/2 hr ride up Little Bear outside of Bozeman, almost all on gravel, with about 2 hrs of constant climbing. During the climb, I did several blocks of about 20 min where I maintained my sweet spot power, and went harder when it was steep. The legs didn't feel especially fresh today, and this was a tough workout. The hour descent was pretty sweet, though little bumpy on a cross bike. TSS for the ride was 165, bringing this weeks total so far to 590, and moving the CTL to a measly 72.3. Gotta get that higher over the next couple of weeks. More hard training coming up tomorrow, as well as a morning bow hunt for elk with the kids, should be fun. Thanks for reading.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Mid-Season Break
Almost every cyclist that trains consistently can benefit from taking a mid-season break. As serious cyclist, the last thing we think can benefit us is a break. We hate to miss a single workout, thinking there will be dire consequences and we will never get caught back up. The concept of taking an extended break from the bike just doesn't seem right. Even if your training is a little less structured, a little break can help. It can give the body a chance to recover from all the hard training and racing you've done up to this point. More importantly, I think, is that it gives you time to focus on other aspects of your life, get away from "having" to do those intervals or miles, and just relax. This will help ensure that you don't get a serious case of burnout. Take a week away from the bike, and instead of dreading to go out and do your intervals, you'll be looking forward to it. A break will help you maintain your motivation to train through the end of the season, and not give up your focus before you had planned.
Over the last couple seasons, my training was a little unstructured once race season arrived. With the other aspects of life demanding time, often times workouts would be missed, or cut short to fit everything in. I didn't think I needed a break, because I didn't think I was training that hard to begin with. The truth is, even though my training was a little inconsistent, I did train hard when I could. Since I didn't schedule regular recovery periods into my training, or take a mid-season break, by the time July rolled around, I was pretty much cooked. I would race when there was a race, and try and train hard, but I just couldn't find the motivation to keep at it. So, this year I decided that a week away from the bike was in order, since I planned on being in top form and ready to rumble for Montana's biggest race, Tour de Bozeman in late July.
When should this break occur, and how long should it be? Well, as always, that depends, and it will be different for each individual racer. It should occur after a good period of racing and training, probably at the end of a cycle where you would be taking a recovery week anyway. When in the season depends upon your season goals, and how long the racing season is for you, and when you star to lack motivation. As for how long, most people can handle a week away from training without significant loss of fitness, and the increase of motivation and desire to go out and hit it hard again will more than make up for what fitness may have been lost.
My mid-season break was kinda forced on me, due to injuries from my lack of BMX skills. I took a couple hard falls at the BMX track over the last month. The first one resulted in a very sore back, which I'm still having a little trouble with, but supposedly no significant injuries. That is, until I got the bill from the emergency room visit. That is a pain won't go away for a long, long time, OUCH! I wasn't quit so lucky on the second crash. I went down pretty hard. I'm not even sure what happened, but I broke a couple ribs and my collarbone. So, I've pretty much been on forced break for the last month, and won't be able to ride hard again for a few more weeks. My road season is pretty much shot, and I won't be able to help the GAS/Intrinsik team dominate the Tour de Bozeman, but something tells me they'll be just fine without me. GO GAS! One thing is for sure, I am motivated as hell to train again. The break has definitely helped my mind, and once the body is ready to roll, I'll be back out there, focused, and ready to inflict some pain upon thyself. To bad the road racing season will be pretty much over by then, but there's always cyclocross. That's right, 'cross baby! So, as a way to turn my wasted road season into a future success, my cyclocross season starts now. I've been doing some easy rides over the last week, finally feeling a little stronger today. I'm going to give myself a little more time to heal by resting hard and riding easy. Then, I'm going to start to ramp up the training again. I will spend some time with some base training, then try to build up the functional threshold as high as I can, and finally doing some short hard 'cross specific work when I'm ready. The goal will be to be super fit and ready to fight for the covted top hay bale at Radley's Rolling Thunder in October. I consider myself a long shot to win, with all the heavy hitters that are sure to be at the greatest 'cross race this side of Belgium, but you gotta have a lofty goal if you're going to push yourself to the limit, and perhaps a little beyond. Which, is of course required in 'cross racing. I will try and document most of my training between now and then here on the blog, follow along and see how bad I can make it hurt.
Rolling Thunder '08
John Sieber Photography
Monday, May 18, 2009
BMX Racing?
Trey getting ready to rumble
First off, thanks to Mr. All Things BMX, Bill Drysdale, track director at GVBMX for letting me borrow his sweet bike. I threw my Time mountain bike pedals on it, clipped in, and headed out around the track. Turns out it actually is pretty hard. I was always wondering why everyone was breathing so hard after their races, now I know. It probably only takes about a minute to go around the track, but it's all out, standing up, and for a newbie like me, pretty much wrestling with the bike and hoping to not end up on my head. There are definitely some skills involved, and I don't seem to have any. Everyone said I looked pretty good, but I felt like the old fish outa water, that's for sure.
After a few practice laps, I started to feel a little more comfortable on the bike. Balancing and coming out of the gate is a little awkward at first, but I got better as the night went on. Still, most times during practice the 12yr olds could get the holeshot on me, nothing like being schooled by a kid! Eventually, practice time ended and it was time for the motos to start. I raced in the old guys Novice division. It's just like road racing, in that you start out as a novice, win races and upgrade to race with more experienced and faster racers. Luckily, there were only three racers in that division, so I didn't have to worry about it being to crowded out there. Since I don't have any skills to speak off, I had to rely on my fitness to get me around the track. I was able to power away from the other racers in the few areas of the track that I could actually pedal through. We raced three motos. I was 1st, 2nd, then 1st again, for 1st place overall. Mariah also raced for the first time, placing third, and coming back strong after a hard crash in her first moto. Awesome.
Mariah's first race!
I'm sure I'll be back for more. It was a blast, and good training, too. I figure ripping around on the dirt can only help my bike handling skills when 'cross rolls around again this fall, not to mention the benefit of the short, all out efforts required to get around the track. I think it seems like a fun way to get some sprint efforts in, so I can be ready for the Downtown Sprints at the Tour of Bozeman this summer, unless I skip it to race BMX!
Rockin' the GAS jersey and the wranglers on the bmx track, but I am in the lead
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Trophys for the first time racers. Since I got 1st place in my first race, they gave me a huge trophy. Trey was jealous!
Monday, May 11, 2009
Once a week?
Well, so much for updating the blog every week. Things have been a little hectic around the Morgan household lately. Between work, family, trying to get some training in, and helping a couple cyclist with their training, the blog seems to be the thing that gets neglected. Oh well, guess I'll have to try harder.
So, what's happened since my last post. I think I was whining about not being able to go race at Walla Walla because I had to work. Well, as usual, I found a way to put off work for a long weekend and make it to the race (it's good to be the boss!). That race is brutal. I thought I was pretty fit, and I got my ass kicked. Wow, some of those guys are fast. I rode what I think was the best TT of my life, I felt great, the watts were way up there, and it was only good for like 38th place, bummer. The crit just about killed me, and then I had a mechanical right at the start of the final road race. Got the big DNF.
Roubaix was a little better. I suffered mightily after having a couple flats and having to chase back on. I managed to get back on and try to help the team by following a late race move by Verticle Earth, only to flat again after we had a good gap. The team got the overall win with Brian Frykman. He kinda just rolled off the front after the first lap and rode away with the race. I noticed at Belt this last weekend that no one wanted to let him roll off the front again. Lesson learned I guess. John Curry ended up in the pink leaders jersey for finishing 1st in the CAT 2 competition. The win was a team effort, with both Sebastion and Jason stopping early in the race to help Brian when he flatted. Sebastion gave up a wheel, and Jason killed himself to help pull Brian back into the race. Tomas later stopped to help me when I flatted, giving up his wheel and ending his race so my suffering could continue. Thanks Tomas, next time can I get in the car?
The Belt Omnium this last weekend was another great race for G.A.S./Intrinsik. This time, I got the W after riding a pretty good (very painful) TT and getting some great team support in the road race. Shaun posted a great report on http://montanacyclocross.com. Seb, Brian, John, and Nate all took there turns attacking, pushing the pace, and covering moves so I could basically sit in and enjoy the ride until the time came to put the hammer down. Thanks for all the hard work guys, it was a pleasure, except for the last 20 miles or so anyways. With the win, it puts either myself or John C in the series leaders jersey for a few more weeks.
Also this last weekend was the season opener at Gallatin Valley BMX. Nails Jr. swept the 5 yr old novice class, winning each heat and the main event. A couple more wins and it's time to upgrade to the intermediate class. Way to go Trey. Not to be out done, Mariah scored two goals during her soccer game the following day. My kids are studs.
So what's next? Probably just some more racing here in Montana. Hopefully, I can keep up with the training. It seems in years past once the racing season got here, all I did was race and recover. This year, I hope to remain a little more focused on the training. A couple races are probably really going to hurt, as I will come into them with a high CTL and low TSB. What's that mean? I will go into that in a future post, but basically means I'm not going to rest before every race. For some, I will come into the race basically wasted, probably working for other teammates as my form just won't be there. I won't be giving up precious training time to come into each race fresh. I will continue to push the fitness higher, resting on a scheduled or needed basis, and peak for a goal event later in the summer. Only time will tell if my plan will work, but so far, I seem to be ahead of where I usually am at this time of the year. Having a good training plan, and following it as best I can with minor adjustments here and there due to life getting in the way seems to be working for me, and it will work for you, too. Shoot me an e-mail at coachbrad@bresnan.net if you need help developing your training plan, and I'll see if I can help you with your Pursuit and Understanding of Racing Excellence.
Keep it PURE,
Brad
So, what's happened since my last post. I think I was whining about not being able to go race at Walla Walla because I had to work. Well, as usual, I found a way to put off work for a long weekend and make it to the race (it's good to be the boss!). That race is brutal. I thought I was pretty fit, and I got my ass kicked. Wow, some of those guys are fast. I rode what I think was the best TT of my life, I felt great, the watts were way up there, and it was only good for like 38th place, bummer. The crit just about killed me, and then I had a mechanical right at the start of the final road race. Got the big DNF.
Roubaix was a little better. I suffered mightily after having a couple flats and having to chase back on. I managed to get back on and try to help the team by following a late race move by Verticle Earth, only to flat again after we had a good gap. The team got the overall win with Brian Frykman. He kinda just rolled off the front after the first lap and rode away with the race. I noticed at Belt this last weekend that no one wanted to let him roll off the front again. Lesson learned I guess. John Curry ended up in the pink leaders jersey for finishing 1st in the CAT 2 competition. The win was a team effort, with both Sebastion and Jason stopping early in the race to help Brian when he flatted. Sebastion gave up a wheel, and Jason killed himself to help pull Brian back into the race. Tomas later stopped to help me when I flatted, giving up his wheel and ending his race so my suffering could continue. Thanks Tomas, next time can I get in the car?
The Belt Omnium this last weekend was another great race for G.A.S./Intrinsik. This time, I got the W after riding a pretty good (very painful) TT and getting some great team support in the road race. Shaun posted a great report on http://montanacyclocross.com. Seb, Brian, John, and Nate all took there turns attacking, pushing the pace, and covering moves so I could basically sit in and enjoy the ride until the time came to put the hammer down. Thanks for all the hard work guys, it was a pleasure, except for the last 20 miles or so anyways. With the win, it puts either myself or John C in the series leaders jersey for a few more weeks.
Also this last weekend was the season opener at Gallatin Valley BMX. Nails Jr. swept the 5 yr old novice class, winning each heat and the main event. A couple more wins and it's time to upgrade to the intermediate class. Way to go Trey. Not to be out done, Mariah scored two goals during her soccer game the following day. My kids are studs.
So what's next? Probably just some more racing here in Montana. Hopefully, I can keep up with the training. It seems in years past once the racing season got here, all I did was race and recover. This year, I hope to remain a little more focused on the training. A couple races are probably really going to hurt, as I will come into them with a high CTL and low TSB. What's that mean? I will go into that in a future post, but basically means I'm not going to rest before every race. For some, I will come into the race basically wasted, probably working for other teammates as my form just won't be there. I won't be giving up precious training time to come into each race fresh. I will continue to push the fitness higher, resting on a scheduled or needed basis, and peak for a goal event later in the summer. Only time will tell if my plan will work, but so far, I seem to be ahead of where I usually am at this time of the year. Having a good training plan, and following it as best I can with minor adjustments here and there due to life getting in the way seems to be working for me, and it will work for you, too. Shoot me an e-mail at coachbrad@bresnan.net if you need help developing your training plan, and I'll see if I can help you with your Pursuit and Understanding of Racing Excellence.
Keep it PURE,
Brad
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