Back on the road..but for how long?

I was able to get back on the road again last Thursday. Looking at my training history, this was my 1st ride on the road in 17 days and only my 2nd in a month. The Holidays, vacation and weather really took it's toll the past couple of months.

Saturday was a good day (well, not weather wise, as it was only in the low 30's). Did a few hour ride from Nesler's house and stopped by the Iron Hill in West Chester for their Belgian Festival. Lots great beers...my only beef; it was stupid busy - 20+ minutes to get a beer (10 people deep at the bar). All in all, you just can't beat a day of riding and then drinking great beer!

As happy as I am that I got some great rides in the past 4 days, the weather this week looks to put a damper on my mood. Looks like we are getting another snow storm starting tomorrow and I see predictions for ice and inches of snow...

WTF!!!

Here I thought I'd be able to get on the road today. They were calling for passing snow showers with a 'trace' of snow yesterday. We got almost 5 inches by me...lucky me, where I live was one of the pockets that got most the snow.

I'm ready to pull my hair out after spending the entire week on the trainer...not fun (especially since the CompuTrainer is down). A full training week, on the trainer, culminated with a 2 hour session yesterday - ahhhhh!

Maybe I can get on the road later this week (those days of highs in the mid-20s are starting to look good to go).

Training Funk...

I haven't posted in a while just because there hasn't really been much to say. I've been in sort of a training funk and between weeks of vacation (2+ weeks in CA and 4 days in Detroit for New Years), the Holidays, and bad weather, I just haven't been able to put together any decent prolonged training on the road. This is the most I've spent on the trainer in the off season in years. This week looks bad as we are getting the coldest temperatures in almost 2 years. I've seen predictions for lower lows than what's listed below.

To add insult to injury I went to hop on my CompuTrainer and apparently it is somehow broken. It doesn't give any resistance rendering it useless! Looks like I'll have to send it in and be without it for a while (it is 10 years old, so I guess I can't complain too much...just the worst week for it to happen!). I'll have to head to the bike shop to pick up another trainer to get me by (the trainer I use to warm up for races just doesn't cut it and I can't change the resistance on it either).