Summer's almost over

It's been a good stretch of time since I rapped at y'all. Lots of good things have been happening since then. It's been a really busy summer. Seems like each weekend has been pretty packed with lots of things to do, including a few that involved traveling. The weekdays usually have something going on after work.

The downshot to a lot of this was that I wasn't able to do as much cycling as I used to. I'm kind of cursed mentally when it comes to training. My background in endurance sports always involved near daily training, so that's what I got used to. But then I entered the real world where you can't train all the time. And to me, it was hard to accept trying to do sports without a pretty strict, disciplined training program. It's was either I go all in, or I don't do it at all.

Parts of this summer have involved the latter. But now I'm making adjustments to ensure I get more training. I still technically live near the Nelson-Atkins museum, but I spend most of my time at what I like to call my secondary residence over in northeast Golden Ghetto. I started commuting to work on the Sputnik after I had stopped doing so for some time. I have a nice route where I can take Antioch down to Merriam Drive, which turns into Southwest Boulevard and then to downtown. Once you get on to Merriam, there's very little in the way of hills, so I've tweaked the route to take Summit up to the 14th Street bridge. There's a fairly tough hill between about 20th Street and 16th Street. I threw that hill in there to get a better workout, even though I usually curse myself for doing so while I'm on it.

Anyway, doing about 20 miles a day just to commute to, from and during work, along with other training rides as time permits, I'm inching my way back to fitness. I'm hoping it comes around in time for the upcoming 'cross season.

There's only about five weeks left.