50+ Temps @&*K Lifting Weights

Temps in the 40's and 50's have made my goal of getting a routine of lifting 2 days a week almost impossible! I've gotten several multi hour rides in and can't believe it's almost January. Christmas came and went in the usual blur for me. Hurry here and there, go to this event and that. The actual day arrives and then "bam" back to work. I did get some christmas cash from several family members, and it is now resting at the bike shop on account building up to that next project bike!!!!
I hope to get several more long easy rides in before the next drop in temperature. Then it's back to the basement where nobody can see how small the pounds are than i'm lifting.

A group ride is scheduled for new years day, i'll try to have pictures. Ty

Weight training makes the rollers fun!!!

I've just begun the winter off season with the usual dreams of great gains in power and endurance before the spring road season. I have a new plan of attack, that will include weight training for the first time ever. Yesterday was the first time in years that I have picked up a weight. And today I had to fall out of bed, because sitting up (due to ab crunches) was not an option! This painful training session had one great result that I had not planned on. Lifting weights yesterday made riding the rollers today a pure joy......
I hope to get out on as many outside rides as weather and time permit. This is my usual off season. Just ride as much as possibe. But the race results the last two yrs have proven this un affective.
So extra effort is needed!! And a few pounds off the mid-section might help me hang onto the tail of the race a little longer. Thanks for reading. Ty

CX Season Over

Izzy chilln "notice the cow bell"

Road trip to 2nd city

Izzy racing went to Chicago to race in the Illinois state cx race at Montrose park. We planned on making it a weekend leaving on Friday and racing on Sunday. The mid-west was hit by the first big snow storm of the year on Thursday, so the normally 21/2 hr drive turned into 4 but we made it none the less.
We spent the whole day Sat. just doing the tourist thing downtown and soaking up the christmas spirit stuck in traffic on Michigan ave!
Sunday morning came and I woke up in the hotel room feeling sluggish and not very motivated to race. All the walking the day before left my legs feeling full of lead. I turned on the weather channel and saw the temps were -2F with the windchill. I crawled back into bed and that was the end of the 2006 cx season......
Not very manly but to be honest, i'm glad the season is over. I had no real big successes all year. To be honest it was a real below average season all around. So to get it over with is a blessing!
The planning for the off-season has already begun, and after a week of recovery totally off the bike, I will begin my 2007 push. Don't know yet what my goals are, but when you're at the bottom of the cat4 heap there is only one way to go. UP! Thanks for reading. Ty

Photos of the weekend are comming!