Now that I'm back to getting in some time on my bike I figured I should post a blog update! I started training again in early November, gradually building up to riding most days of the week, keeping mon/fri and some time on weekends open for a little surf action.
Thanks to my ex employer deciding to lay me off 3wks before christmas / days before the christmas office party, I had a little more time on my hands over the past week. Not much that I could do other than turn a negative situation into something positive...
So, after missing Tuesday's training ride on my last day of work, I spent Wednesday doing an FTP test in 30C temp. Thursday was a double dose of training... A few hours in the late morning, and a fast hour in the evening, totalling 4+hrs in the saddle.
Friday was a lap around O'ahu with Casey Tucker. We agreed on meeting up at 9am to avoid waking up crackhead early. The negative side of this was riding through the hottest part of the day, finally getting back to town at about 2pm! ROASTED!!!
Saturday was Ed Kurzenski's 53rd birthday, so we scheduled another ride around the island starting at 7am. Ouch.
This time we had a larger group of guys and made it around in just over 4hrs of actual ride time.
The weather was perfect with little wind to be felt, we stopped at Waimea to watch some epic surf conditions that only slightly fell short of being able to run the Eddie Aikau contest, shave ice at Matsumoto's in Haleiwa, then back to town.
Group shot at Waimea. (l-r) Mike Zagorski, Casey Tucker, Mark Little, Ed Kurzenski, Bill Jarvis, Nguyen Le.
For the data junkies out there, those 4 days of riding put my CTL from 47.4 to 61.4, ATL went from 75 to 140.2, putting my TSB from -29.7 into a deep hole of -78.8. Nothing like taking mediocre fitness and giving it a swift kick in the balls to get it jump started!
My happy time of living the life of not setting an alarm to wake up, and riding for however long I feel like screeches to a hault next Wednesday when I start a new job. I'll write some more about the job later, but it's going to be awesome and a lot of fun.
