Little more than a week ago, my voice remained the only sound that could be heard echoing off the halls of this website. I had been meaning to send out a message to Reader prompting him to react to my entries. This is how my post would have read:
Yes, I’m talking to you. Yes you, the one in front of the computer screen. Don’t point your finger at your chest and glance behind you, like someone else is there. That’s right, I’m talking to you. I know you’re there. I’ve been tracking you with statistics. You visit my site regularly, even when I’m not posting. Why are you such a passive visitor to my site. Since I’m receiving no feedback, I’ve resorted to my own list of potential reasons for your silence:
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Recently I came to the conclusion that I haven’t been training enough. I seem to have been mired in a performance plateau that stretches back as far as last year: not getting better, not getting worse. One thing that I believe has improved greatly is my recovery on a day-to-day basis and also between intense efforts during a race. This is good because Joiel identifies recovery as the key difference between the elite riders and everyone else. I think some of this has to do with my emphasis on more rest this year and higher intensity training.
So am I really in a plateau? Exhibit 1 was Foothill road yesterday. It had me bent over coughing up lung residue for a couple hours. Nothing crushes you like The Hill. My time wasn’t that great either. On the other hand, it is hard to tell how much slower the new boulder seal is compared to previous years. I had postulated earlier that it was a minute slower. Other than Timberston and myself, no one else has been doing to it give a reference point to previous years. The local “racers” aren’t nutting up and riding their bikes. The rest of the day I tried to grapple with my Foothill deamons. Then, I turned my attention to my long climb field test scheduled the next morning. Read more
