Jonathan Piper » training http://www.jonathanpiper.com Thu, 06 Oct 2011 05:27:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/ Progress, or…? http://www.jonathanpiper.com/2009/01/progress-or/ http://www.jonathanpiper.com/2009/01/progress-or/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:17:18 +0000 Jonathan http://www.jonathanpiper.com/?p=130 I rode about 30 miles with William today, give or take a few.  I don’t remember what roads we took, so I can’t plot the route.  I do remember a few bitchy hills, though, that I’ll have to add to the training regimen.  The biggest thing that I took away from today’s ride is that [...]]]> I rode about 30 miles with William today, give or take a few.  I don’t remember what roads we took, so I can’t plot the route.  I do remember a few bitchy hills, though, that I’ll have to add to the training regimen.  The biggest thing that I took away from today’s ride is that I seem to be making progress.  It could simply be that I was riding with another person today – that always serves as automatic motivation – but I really do feel like something tangible has improved.  My muscles got less sore during the ride, even when I was coming home by myself, and I was able to endure the pain for slightly longer each time I pushed myself.  Ross tells me the pain never goes away, that getting better is simply getting better at handling the suffering.  I still have a lot of work to do, but today was a step in the right direction.

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]]> For the trip out to (and possibly up) Palomar in just about one month.  Not a lot of time, so I’m going to have to push it.  Hill reps start tomorrow morning.  Tons and tons of reps.  Let’s just hope my spoke holds up.

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