And just like that i go MIA
Well since we last talked.. I kinda had an off season!!
Time without any training. A bit of a re-shuffle but circumstances dictated a perfect time to sneek in a break, and take it without worrying about rushing into next year. I took full advantage of the break and made a year worth of being 20 years old fit into a few weeks….
Well I have been back on the bike just over a week and oh how that pendulum has swung. I found myself seriously on struggle street getting back on the bike; Turns out Taupo is built on the side of a rather large volcano… and there is only one way as you head out of town and that is down! Not the kinda of thing you notice when form is good and the legs in strong – Take yourself back down a peg or 4 and every ride home is a bit of a drag… Literally a false-flat drag
Well after a good number of days of getting the stuffing kicked out of me, I started giving Taupo a couple of hooks back and in the space of a few more days i was back to a level where I was training. NOT just surviving. On many of those long rides home I spent alot of time pondering about Taupo, its roads and its lifestyle… As i look back over the training I have done in the last few years I can tell you one thing, where you live and train has a rather large handle in dictating the type of rider you are. Once you embrace it, Taupo will make you strong..
Not a bad place to spend the ‘offseason’
