I am now retired from racing for a few years... family, work, home projects, other hobbies, and a lot of other things started getting in the way which is an easy way to say that I lost interest in cycling at that level. I am not genetically gifted enough to ride very well without a lot of training or at least I need 10-12 hours of good training per week to keep the edge and a lot of that needs to be with intensity during the race season... I just couldnt keep it up and found that I didnt really want to.
I sold my power meter.
That pretty well does it. The draw of the other woman has been tempered by life I guess. I still love cycling and will still ride and maybe even race, but the structured training is over... no intervals... no power sessions... no L4 discussion...
I am returning to the roots... I am unplugged. I am back to measuring success as whether or not I covered the time for the ride or whether or not I got dropped (which I am doing a lot). It is OK... it seems that when you have no expectations, getting dropped doesnt feel nearly as bad.
So it is over. I will keep open the blog for future reference and hope that I will return one day. I will likely start a new blog on a new topic in the next months and will post the name and topic on here. Thanks for reading...
