I'm Back!!

To say the least I was bummed out after dropping out at Beauce two weeks ago, but now I'm back! Having missed out on the racing at Beauce, which I was counting on to get me ready for Nationals July 10th, I've had to put in some extra miles and hope that things come good.

This last week was tough but, it's the first time I've been fresh enough in the summer to put in some real training and I've really enjoyed putting in the miles in the heat. The best ride of the week was with Buck, we went up to Collingwood ( a ski area north of Toronto that the Niagara Escarpment runs through) to do a big day and a couple of repeats on the Scenic Caves climb. Before heading up I told Buck to put on his 26cog. He just looked at me like I was silly, but hey why would he believe me?

The Scenic Caves climb is 9 minutes, and is so steep that we were riding almost all of it on our 26s at what was probably not much below race pace. We did two repeats of that and then another decent climb out of Creemore, home of the local micro beer brewery. I've got to admit that Buck had me on the rivet a bit on the climb, but that was just what I was hoping for someone to push me to my limits.

Already I'm starting to feel the benefits of the mileage and think that it should really lay a great base for the rest of the season. One more week of hard work, then a quick rest for Nationals and the campaign for the second half of the season will have been launched.