almost time to ride outside

This weekend it's supposed to get above 40. That means I'm going outside. Time to put the road tires on the road wheels and ride the...cross bike for a while. Maybe I'll put the CX tires on and ride some rail trails.

Noteworthy News:

-Geof says he's riding the Hater. I hope he can turn off his survival instinct.

-JHK and Irmiger have a company I would patronize were I to own my own home.

-Those kids my shop sponsors are having a pretty big deal race in a few months. I hope those other kids I used to hang out with will come make a good showing.

-My racing season schedule is coming together nicely. What I once thought was a restriction imposed by my job has proven to create a nice two-peak structure. I won't be racing between the end of June and the middle of August. I will, however, be training.

Current training:

Weight steady at 156.

Flexibility noticeably improving.

Power going up while RPE going down.

Diet maintaining. Volume control has been good. (Volume of food, not volume of my voice. It's like my caps lock button has been stuck on for the last week.)

Sleep has been okay. I've been going to bed at 11 and getting up at 7 for a year or so, and changing that has been a bit difficult. I'm trying to go to bed at ten and get up at 6. We'll see how that goes. Early morning training sounds like a lot of fun.

New challenge at the shop: The employee who commutes to work by bike the highest percentage of shifts worked between March 1st and September 1st wins a big fat prize. It's a good one, too. Right now I'm at 50%, but I'm only two days in. Today I'm going to bump that 50 up to 66.6.