I’ve been busy the past week or so and I am still feeling it.  I got back on the bike for the first time the Saturday before last…it was exactly one week since the wreck and seperated shoulder so I was both ready and not ready to go for a ride.  In that two week span my shoulder got progressivley better and is still getting better with time.  Also during that two week span though was the first major and key component to my off season: time totally and completely off and away from the bike.

Two weeks of no bike and no workouts what-so-ever was a welcome thing.  Of course Icouldn’t completely escape as I was organizing a high school race and taught the Jesuit and St. Marks cycling clubs how to ride the velodrome.   Hence getting back on the bike on that Saturday… I was teaching a track cycling development so I had to ride so we could play ‘follow the leader’ and so I could teach them how to ride the track without falling down the 44 degree banking.  Then this past Saturday I put on the first ever high school track cycling race and the kids all did a fantastic job!

Back to the off season… Two weeks of no riding or working out in any fashion and the mental break that goes along with it was welcomed the trouble is that in the first 10 days of those two weeks I gained 5-7 pounds because I was also eating all the junk that I had avoided for most of the previous year or more.  This meant that by the time I did get back on the bike I was feeling pretty crappy and flabby so I at least welcomed the physical activity even if mentally I still wanted to avoid the bike.  IT’s also nice to just go to work and then have free time after work rather than ride, eat, go to bed, and back to work the next morning.  I like free time.

Anyways, last week I started riding again and did two rides with the high school club after school/work and then I did a nice ride on Sunday.  The weather this weekend was beautiful in Dallas so Sunday’s ride was pretty nice although I was wishing I could be doing something other than riding…something like just hanging out.   Hopefully it’s just because I’m still just getting back into the groove.

This week I start getting back into that groove again.  I’ll workout six days a week for each of the next four weeks but only 2-3 of those will be bike rides.  The rest will be lower body weights in the gym and running.  I’m looking forward to it even though it will be my first time to run in probably 5+ years.  Uh oh.

I am doing rehab (on my own) on my shoulder so hopefully that continues imrpoving too.

Till next time,

-andrew-