Monday, October 20, 2014

Pre 2015 preparation

Well, It's been a long while since I've updated this blog, so here's what's going on now. Normally after the Tulsa Tough I'll take a little break and then start the cyclocross season preparation. My typical CX plan is to re-establish some base fitness in July, then ramp it up in August, then full on CX stuff from then on. This year though I wasn't really super motivated to do the whole cross plan. I decided to keep doing the weekly wheeler crits until September, then maybe do a couple of CX races just for fun.

That didn't really go as planned. the closer the CX stuff got the more I wanted to focus on some other things. I've been basically doing the back to back road and CX seasons for the last 6 years, so I decided to skip it completely this fall and just get super recovered and fresh to start the 2015 road season right this go around. The plan was to do a FTP test on the 19th and actually start my preparation phase today. As luck would have it, I came down with a pretty wicked cold on Sunday, so the baseline testing didn't happen. Not a big deal. I'll try again soon. I'm pretty excited to get some miles in though. nothing like watching races you're not a part of to make you hungry to race again!

I got my welding table finished up and have a few projects going right now.
My custom home built welding table
I've been making lots of youtube videos also. I guess I've been doing that and working on welding projects with my small amount of free time instead of this blog, but I'll try to keep this updated more if possible. Time is super tight right now with Coatney going to school full time, but it's all working out. It's all about time management. Gotta use that time wisely if you want to get stuff done!

Anyhow, here's a couple of videos I've done in the last month or so that have been  doing well...