Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Signing Off...

This blog started with my obsession with cycling and my obsession with power meters. It was really a place to write about my thoughts and training so that I could one day return and benefit from learning year to year and having some of that documented.

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...

5 comments:

JC said...

I had a Polar heart rate monitor for a few years. It broke and I didn't bother to replace it. I don't need a constant beeping sound to tell me I'm pushing it to hard. I've been free of it for several years and don't miss it.

Eric Remlinger said...

I cant wait until you return!

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