I wasn't ready.....but just you wait.............

For those of you who have followed me this far and still check in once in a while thank you, and thanks for still believing I am going to do what it is I initially set out to do.

I had made it clear to everyone that I was determined to become a riding machine. With grand plans of riding from Philipburg MT to Boise ID in a span of about 5 days. I had even gone so far as to throw in a couple of 200 mile jaunts just as warm ups. Now I know what a lot of you are thinking, "Hes never gonna do that, that's a lot of riding", well you are right about the fact that its a lot of riding and wrong to think that I will not endure to see the end.

At the end of July and for the first week of September I was still frequently riding. My grand plan to get in shape for a 500+ mile bike ride was to hop on a bike and ride ride ride ride ride until I was in good enough shape to push past that much pavement. My legs hurt, my back hurt, my knees hurt you get the picture. I eventually hit the mental "damn this is a lot of riding" wall and haven't been on a serious ride for close to a month. What I have been doing is studying. I have been through a number of nutrition books and cycling books that have not only helped me to mentally prepare for this task but have given me a solid plan for physically preparing for it as well.

I learned quite a bit about how my approach to training for this ride was, well how should I say this, WRONG. Wrong wrong wrong.....I had the perfect diet for a guy who was in the gym everyday pumping iron and putting on some serious bulk but it turns out that that is not the prefect diet for someone who is turning pedals and working on the skills needed for a strong cyclist. The one thing I had right was riding but I had pushed my milage and durations to far to fast.

So in the winter months to come follow along and even ride along if you feel like it. I will be posting my riding and workout schedules so they are easy to follow and then you can join me on the ride. Don't worry this time around we will be starting out slow. I am planning on participating in the Tour of the Swan River Valley in May. The TOSRV is a two day event with 110 miles each day, riding from Missoula to Swan Lake and back, http://www.missoulabike.org/tosrvwest/.

Any how there it is check back often.