For starters, when the team (as in NYVelocity) told all of us to take at least two to four weeks off the bike, I took that literally and, rather than cross-train with another sport, I have done absolutely nothing over the past four weeks other than eat, drink, and sleep.
Why has so much time off the bike been a mistake? Because when I went for a ride yesterday, I approached a small hill that looked like this . . .
. . . and it not only took me half-an-hour to reach the top, but my heart rate shot up to 197 as well. And while I’ve got about thirty days before training for the 2009 season begins, I can’t even conceive of heading out for a ride that lasts longer than an hour-and-a-half or, god forbid, a group ride, especially with the team. (Deep down in my heart, I know that most of the guys on the team have been training their asses off despite the coaches telling us to take it easy. Too many type-A personalities who take this shit waaaayyyyy too seriously.)
Apart from the lack of training, I nominated myself to be voted in as Communications Director of the Century Road Club Association (of which NYVelocity is a sub-team). This means I’ll be the person responsible for daily and weekly updates to the club’s site, CRCA.net.
Am I a web designer? Do I know anything about HTML coding? NOPE, although apparently, the site is hosted on WordPress which is the same program I use for my other useless blog, ExpectTheWorst.com. Still, the CRCA site is a lot more complicated than my rinky-dink blog, so I have no doubt I’ll be logging some serious hours at the computer trying to keep things flowing on the site.
Wow. I can’t wait.
