Look Out Ahead

There is a lot going on this summer and it being the first Friday in May it finally feels like things are getting underway. Friday is a rest day on my training plan and I need it. I am trying to straddle that line between doing enough and not doing too much and it is harder than you think. I am looking for slow steady progress here. The one thing that has the potential to ruin that slow steady progress is that Sunday is 4 weeks from my first triathlon of the season. I have been training, which in previous years has been the exception to the rule, so I am really excited to get going. That being said, it is only a sprint but I know of several people that are in the race that have seen me at my lowest lows in triathlons and I would like to have a respectable performance.

On a related note, RAGBRAI planning has begun. For details on the event, go to their website by folowing the link from my links list. RAGBRAI is a weeklong bike tour of Iowa that starts in the west part of the state and ends in the east. It takes place in July and it is quite an event. My brother, his wife, and another couple actually have a RAGBRAI skoolie bus purchased just for the event. There is often a lot of eating and drinking, and a little biking on this 500 mile course and I am going to be a packer this year. Which means I am going to try and be self contained the entire week and not rely on others to take my stuff from one end town to the next. I am going to pull everything in a Burley trailer. It should be fun and by then I expect to be in pretty solid biking shape. If you have ever want to spend a week around 20,000 bikers going from one big beer garden to the next, this is your event. No doubt you will hear more about it in the months to come.