back to the grind

Now that I have been back for about a week and a half, not much has changed with work. It's still there, the people are the same, the patients are the same. Am I the same? Don't think that Greece has really changed me except that my forehead looks like a darker shade of dirty. I should have probably brought a hat with me.

My training is back to full gas. Mid-season break from racing, since the temperature and humidity is so rediculous, allows for some reflection/evaluation of the first half of the season performance. This will now shape and dictate the focus of my training to come.

Last Saturday, I rode with the Saturday windermere group/route and turned off at hancock to head back home to Desiree's. I was doing well setting tempo up the climbs of hartwood marsh and being on my own on hancock nearly averaging 22mph. The last 15 miles of my ride back home seemed exhausting. I was having trouble maintaining 18-20mph on the flats. I could tell my body was done and that I went too hard on the climbs. My legs and muscles weren't flooded with lactid acid or cramping, my conditioning had taken a toll and i was paying for it.

I rode easy with Desiree on Sunday and took Monday completely off. Now i'm back to the grind adding interval training and longer tempo workouts to perpare for the second half of the race season which begins at the end of August.