March 1, 2016
I can’t believe it has been 6 months since I announced the ride. I’m over halfway through my training and I’m getting more nervous.
Lets have a look at last month aims.
Get someone – preferably with intimate knowledge of American roads – to check over my routes and ensure everything is looking ok
I’ve done it, the route is now planned. I will have a blog post outlining this in more detail in March.
Make a decision on which bike to buy
I’ve got one! Expect a post on this soon too!
Get some promotional events booked in
This was tough. It is so, so difficult to get a response from larger businesses/organisations. I have a few promising leads but nothing much more to report.
It has been a relatively good month on several fronts. The route is looking good, the bike purchased, I’m back on the bike following my back pain and the Bootcamp was a success. In addition to my training, many of the sponsorship events are going to start in the months leading up to the ride so it’s going to be a really hectic 6 months.
Naturally I am freaking out a bit about the fact it’s over 6 months away and I’m not physically fit enough yet. But the good news is I am so much stronger, flexible and fitter than I was 6 months ago. If the last 6 months focused on getting the fundamentals right, these next 6 months will be about finding the required endurance levels. I’m still a little worried about my back but the hard works starts now and I’m totally focused on achieving my goals.
One thing that has annoyed me this month is the fact I’ve reverted back to some bad ways, for example not eating very well and an increase in alcohol. At the start of the training I said I was going to quit crap food (nameley take-aways) and only have around 5 nights out in the next year, those aims have well and truly gone out of the window. I need to ease back on some things in life and focus 100% on my training.
Aims for March
This month is going to be route focused, it’s important I get this nailed before things start getting hectic.
- Plan – and analyse – each day. Studying all the roads and ensuring the milage, amount of climbing etc is ok.
- I need to create digital routes that can be used on my GPS Garmin device and also paper routes that can be referred to.
