In the hope of maintaining momentum of posting more than once a month, here's an update on what I've been up to.

The months leading up to the Tantalus TT in early April were stuffed full of interval workouts. The combination of mental stress from intervals, and missing out on the record by 2sec gave my motivation a swift kick in the balls. I stopped filling in my training diary and can't rememember the last time I imported any of my SRM files into WKO+. I've been downloading them into SRMWIN, but not spending a whole lot of time stressing over the details.

Last weekend was Memorial weekend, which meant I had the luxury of 3 consecutive days of no work. I had visions of getting in 3 back to back 100 mile rides, but didn't. Sunday I was also tentatively going to race on Kauai (Pedal to the Meadow) up Kokee, but the pure insanity of a $127 one way return fare on Hawaiian Airlines made me say "f**k it", so I just had a staycation on O'ahu.

Saturday I slept for a good 12hrs... or more, then rode for 2hrs in mid-day temps that had me melting like a bar of chocolate on a hot skillet. Sunday and Monday consistent of massive doses of sleep, 4hrs of surfing each day, and refuelling.

Since the last weekends ride / race plans went to s**t I decided to use this as my mid-season break from the bike before hitting it hard for the next 3 months before my main target of the season (Master Track Nationals in Texas). The dilemna I now face is that my return flight arrives in Honolulu at 830pm the night before a 112 mile race (The Dick Evans Memorial) which I won last year. I really want to pin a # on and go for win number 2, BUT, if I stick around in Texas for another day, I might have a good chance at bringing back some Stars+Stripes to Hawaii. Winning is never a done deal, but if I was a betting man...

So while I spent the past month or so just tooling around (not saying I was riding the 39t for all that time!), I'm now recharged, refocussed, and have a plan for the next 12 weeks. Bring it!

Other than the whole cycling / surfing shenannigans, my Subaru now has a fresh set of tires (Thanks VS), and got an oil change (Thanks JM). Nice to have a car that is running super sweet, and learn a little about car maintenance in the process.