Stronger, Fitter, Faster
Getting into the gym, getting on the bike, and hopefully winning some races someday
Stronger
Twelve years behind a desk does things to your body. For the first time in ten years I've started hitting a gym 3x a week but that doesn't mean I can muster too many pushups just yet.
Fitter
Lose a serious amount of weight. This is definitely key to making everything else work, so I'll be focusing on dropping pounds to get not only into a healthy range of BMI, but to also increase my endurance and fitness.
Faster
Under the guidance of a cycling coach, I'm spending more time in the saddle and riding not just longer, but smarter. Power meters, training plans, and intervals will be the order of the day.
« My Big Fat Bet | Main | A Ride with George »
Big bet update and a new bike team
It seems that the bet described in the previous post is now officially halfway completed, and I'm happy to say that on July 1st, I weighed in at 209.8lbs, just under where I should be in order to hit 200lbs by September 1st. I also rode about 470 miles last month, the most of any month this year and I even took two trips of several days in length each. If I had stayed home all month, I'm sure I could be doing more than 600 miles per month.
On a similar note, I want to introduce a new bike team I've helped get off the ground: Buy Local Cycling. My friend Jeff came up with an idea to showcase local bike frame builders and bike products by riding custom frames with either Oregon and/or American-made products. I chipped in some seed money and we've assembled a rag-tag bunch of low-key (mostly) cyclocross riders. We're expanding the cyclocross series we launched last year and just added a brand-new Short Track Mountain Bike series around Salem, Oregon including one race in the middle of the Oregon State Fair.
It's fun and not too serious, as half the fun has been selecting bike kit designs and picking paint colors on new DeSalvo frames.
Posted on July 6, 2009 in goals
Comments
- About Me
- My OBRA race results
- bike coach: Seth Hosmer
- bikes:
- Trek Madone 5.2 (road)
- Gary Fisher Superfly (29er)
- DeSalvo Custom Titanium (cyclocross)
- Trek District (citybike)
Recent Rides
Cycling data compiled by
Body Weight
Categories
- about
- coaching
- gadgets/bikes
- goals
- gym
- oregon
- photos
- product reviews
- racing
- stories
- testing
- training
- travel
- weight
