Again!

[ornoth_cycling]

I guess training season is officially here. All the health issues I had in February and March are past, and last week I began a new assignment at work.

For the past nine months I had a three-mile commute to work, which was nice during the winter months. Equally nice, now that spring is here: I’m working at a client out near our corporate office in Woburn, which is about a one-hour, 14-mile ride.

That means I’m biking as much each day as I rode per week over the winter. My weekly commute is now 140 miles; the last time I rode that much in one week was September 9th, when I biked from Portland to Augusta and back, and the time before that was last year’s PMC ride (August 6-7th).

So all of a sudden, I’m putting in Big Miles, which you can see on my training charts page. That much saddle time is pretty atypical for this early in the season. However, so far all’s gone well, and hopefully it’ll allow me to do the Boston Brevet Series 200k, which is only a month from now. That is… if I still want to ride my bike 125 miles on the weekend, on top of the 140 miles I ride during the week!

So far, I’ve been splitting my commuting miles between the old bike and the new Roubaix, which has now accumulated 750 miles, and continues to perform very nicely. I’m looking forward to seeing how it feels at the end of a lengthy ride, as I don’t think I’ve put more than 60 miles on it at any one time.

So here we go again. So far I think my motivation’s lower this year than it’s been in previous years, but we’ll see. The commute will certainly keep me in the saddle, although it might mean fewer weekend rides. You gotta find your recovery time somewhere!

See ya out on the road…