I'm sorta afraid to weight myself with all this meat that I've been eating. But I'm also on the spin bike more than I ever have. I'm actually sweating!
I'm really hoping that all this work will pay off at this weekend's race. There's a portion of the trail where we have to sprint to the finish line. This section is called "The Wall." Basically its flat and it about 350 yards. This section counts the most in my opinion because if you don't pedal hard, you will lose valuable time. Some of the racers feel that this is what wins or loses the race.
So to train for that, I'm cranking up the tension on the spin bike, and standing up and spinning as hard as I can in order to get the same burn I feel when I race.
I've been training my legs to feel the burn that way when I race, it won't be such a surprise.
All this exercise and eating good has actually got me all excited about it. What's funny is I'm not focusing so much on losing the weight, but more so the fitness aspect of things. I basically want to be a better riding when I ride XC and be in great shape when I race DH.
My friend, the trainer said, if I do 3 hours of cardio a week, my bike fitness level will sky rocket! Well, let's hope it won't take too long for that to happen. I'm looking forward to this evening's work out and then on Thursday's night ride. The night ride will help me gauge how I'm doing. I'm usually the last guy of the group, but we'll see.
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