Article Contributed on: 8/30/2009 6:37:12 PM
Well summer is turning to fall and you have been riding, hopefully, consistently 15 -20 miles a ride. You should be feeling good, you have lost some weight, or more importantly your clothes are now fitting better or too big. You have learned to adjust your riding to improve your skills but work with your body. Now it is time for more.
Even if, like me, you went on vacation and you now feel like you are back at square one and you can't seem to get back into the grove again it's only a couple of rides away. Now you will need to dig deep, think of what you have accomplished, what you want to accomplish and start to hammer it out. You will be very surprised that in two or three rides you are back in the swing of things. Not only are you back into the swing of it, you are better than when you stopped for vacation. The human body is a wonderful mechanism that is flexible and can rebound with an improvement faster than you can imagine.
Now you have some choices to make. Should you stick with me, a non-expert, non-professional that is a firm believer in the S.W.A.G. method (For the young, or never been in the military, S.W.A.G. stands for Scientific Wild A_ _ Guess). Take advice and tips you have acquired from friends, neighbors, and the other cyclists I hope you have been talking to. Taking tips is a very good idea if you are open to and want to attempt change to improve. Remember what works for one does not work for another, but it does not need to be a permanent change to try a couple of times. Are you comfortable to step up and join an organized riding group? Find a compatible riding buddy. Or the big step, find an organized finely written training regiment and group or private coach. You know what you have been doing, you know the improvements you have made and where you need, or better, want to improve. How about a little of all of it? If you have really been working at being a good recreational cyclist, lose weight and just all around feel better, you should have been doing some of this on a smaller scale.
We all have our little things that we want to change or at least improve on. Sometime we become so obsessed by these little things that we forget to look at the big picture. Like I said when I started this blog idea, little steps, little goals, result in big rewards. Most of all you need to make yourself feel good
Next blog I will talk about how my training has been and my deficiencies, well at least those related to bicycling.
Next Post; My Training With S.W.A.G.
Ride Safe Out There, and Don't Run Me Over (please)
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