Sun and New Parts

Finally we are seeing the sun and the snow is melting.

The new seatpost arrived in the mail and looks good so far. tried it briefly yesterday and seems good. Last night installed a section of old inner tube to keep the crud out.

Now that the sun is out the real training and riding can commence. The goal is still to lose weight by the end of May. I'm going to be trying a more Kenyan type approach.

The new issues of MBUK and Singletrack cam out over the last couple of days. Some good stuff in both. Gotta say they are way better then the mags we have here in North America.

Stealth Profile

For almost 2 weeks kept myself off the radar as I recovered from being sick. Plus the winter was getting to me.

Last Friday pulled the trigger on one of these babies,



Should be fun. It was cheap and I figure it is a good way to find out if it works for me before I actually spend $300 on a Joplin or a All Mountain Post.

So with the snow melting I can finally start ramping up my training and work on losing some weight. Plus begin an experiment I want to try this year.

Drifting

Failures and Learning

It has taken me a few days to process and learn from my weight loss failure over the last month and a half. After talking with coach 2 it has been decided to try a different approach to the problem. This will fully begin once I recover from this dammed cold.

In the meantime coach has added one 20 minute walk a day to the schedule. The innuendo that came from coach was he wants me to start running in 8 weeks.

Food and Tea

Had to do 4 repeats on Base Hill today. Did it in a snow storm.

The road surface.

Last one

Then it was home for food and tea. The get to the gym for weights.

Pedals Pedals

And so the continuing upgrades continue.

Today made the decision I need some better flat pedals. And not just anyone's, I'm talking about the old school shin masher Suntour types. With lots of surface area.

More later.

Fun of Winter

Been pretty much the same old thing for the last 2 weeks. Same old training and riding in snow.




I'll feel better in a day or two.