My 2009 cycling season training kicked off on Saturday morning in foggy 34 degree weather. I rode out North Valley, by Tillikum which was on the season finale of the Amazing Race, down Laughlin road, back on the 240 over the hill, and back to North Valley road to Newberg. The rolling hills was a good early season work out - right at 2 hours of riding. I hadn't been on the bike in almost two weeks and hadn't ridden outside for seveal more. It felt good to be out. Something about riding out through the farm land, the hills, the ponds and streams, and everything else renews me.
Last year I focused on the miles. This is the year of my paradigm shift. I have always got carried away with mileage and miles per hour as a measurement of my fitness and how to determine my work outs. This year I will go to the LA method of determining distance - time. As many professional cyclists proclaim, it is about time on the bike. If any of you have lived in the LA area, you know that you don't talk about miles to get somewhere, it is always a distance as measured in time.
"How long to get to Disney Land?"
"About an hour to an hour and a half from Simi Valley."
I believe by taking this approach, I will be able to improve my time on the bike before the STP rather than just focusing on the miles in order to take that step to the 12 hour total time ride. July will tell if my approach is sound.
1 comment:
That is a interesting way to improve on something you love to do. If you are truely doing it because you love it, make that time worththe effort you put in.
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