Okay.... So a Training Plan.

As much as I'd love to whine about fundraising I won't. I'm saving that for a much warmer day.

I'm going to start my warm weather fantasies with thinking about the Training Plan. Bah!

By my estimates I reasonably need to drop about 20lbs before the rally. In my world I'd like to drop about 40, but we all need to start somewhere. I need to work on my Abs, my back muscles, my ass, and stretching. The rest will come naturally. I need to improve my cardiovascular fitness enough that I won't be a sweaty mess at the end of my day.

I also need to do technical things to the bike like fix the 2nd bottle cage holder (or rather, get the broken screws out of the holes and buy a new one), look into a new headset/bar combo (along with re-taping and re-cabling) and buying some spiffy tires that get on with minimal swearing.

Cycling can't possibly start for another month at least so in the meantime here's the plan:
- 1 day boxercise/week
- 1 evening swimming/week (maybe 2)
- 3 days 20 minute cross-training workouts (30 day shred)
- 2 days of Rebounding/Trampolining for 1 hour (or substitute for walking outside)

That's not so bad, won't take more than an hour and a half a day to do - and some of them are social activities at least.

So that's the plan, stay tuned. Cycling season begins end of March.

Friends for Life Bike Rally - 2009

So after thinking about it for awhile I decided not to make a whole 'nother place for myself on the web just to chronicle my adventures with this year's sporty endeavour - that is, the 600k cycling rally from Toronto to Montreal in support of the Toronto People with AIDS Foundation.

Training hasn't really started yet. All I've managed to do so far is get The Beast out of the Garage one day to cycle to work. It left me winded, with a sore ass - but good start!

I just got the training schedule, and have fundraised about 25% of the money needed so far. The whole fundraising thing makes me nervous as hell, but I'm excited to take the ride on.

So here we are - the running training blog has been co-opted while I do the Cycling Thing for the next year or so. If I ever run again I'll be amazed to be honest, I don't really miss the PAIN that comes along with it.

I'm WAY more a fan of coasting along with the wind blowing in my hair and the only thing I need to remember is to unclip when I stop at intersections.

Awesome.