Sunday R & R: Yum-O

After yesterday's 3 hour spin I just hung out with Papa-M, B-Man today and adding to my winter layer by eating some bad ass homemade Pizza rolls my sister cooked up. "Yum-O" as R. Ray would say.

Going to gym at lunch tomorrow and sign up and then will return in evening to start my AA phase of training. Oct. 31st = 2006!!! F*** Yeah!!! This is my first forray into "gym culture" so I'm sure I'll have some stories.

Goals for 06 are going to be:

1. Build more muscular endurance and extend my lactic theshold.
   
2. Do more races, both endurance and XC, using XC races as a training tool to try to get faster.
3. Improve my night riding skills by, you guessed it DOING more night riding
4. Try to stay healthier while maintaining my weight. Last year I lost around 10 lbs over winter but I was sick ALL the time. So I'm adjusting my diet, eating good fats, lean proteins from chicken, turkey, egg whites, learn red meat, whole grains and taking a multi vitamin.
   
5. Do more outside when possible even if I'm forced to ride the rail trail.
   
6. Stay mentaly focused through the winter and the season. I'd like to do some reading up on sports phsychology to help stay focused throughout my training and the races too.
7. Hit the box more than once in 2006.
   
8. Have fun. It's only bike racing. Missing a day riding or training won't kill my efforts. When it comes down to it I'm just riding my bike. For a long time... and it freaking rocks!

Tomorrow is Trick or Treat in White Oak. It's just nuts! I think they bus kids in from other parts of town just to swarm on our neighorhood. We gave out 3 HUGE bags of candy last year in under and hour. There was almost an angry mob when we ran out. This year it's raisins, apples and pieces of whole wheat bread. Little bastards. The slimming down of White Oak's youth starts at 1147. Yeah right! If I did that my tires would be sliced by morning.

Later.