Rest weeks suck

Yep, a whole week of easy rides. You know, its weeks like this that I realize how much I love racing, and how the hunger to train and race hard, and win drives me through the week. This week I have nothing to do on the bike but spin. I got home on Monday after the Nature Valley GP, and since then, I've just been riding easy, spinning the legs for a few hours a day.

Let me tell you, I'm so bored on the bike that I find myself pretending that I'm suffering when I climb one of the longer hills by my house. I'll look back, and imagine seeing a long single file line of riders behind me with the suffering "I just sucked on a lemon" face.

Only about 30 minutes or so after the climb I was riding down the Niagara Parkway, a really scenic, beautiful area, and up ahead I saw a not so serious recreational cyclist up the road. I know it's a rest week, but I figured a quick 200m sprint wouldn't hurt anything. So I picked out a street that this cyclist was going to be approaching soon, and I launched with the speed of God in me to catch'em before reaching the street sign, it was coming down to the wire, I threw the Cervelo into the 53/12 on this false flat downhill and it was over. A 60+ year old woman with a lime green reflector vest and Cataract protection shades on handed it to me. I should have thrown my bike and then I would have got her.

I got a Steve Bauer Bike Tour in this week, so that was a great easy day with pay!

No race this weekend. I was hoping to get up to Ottawa for the Preston Street crit, that’s a great race. But on the brighter side, maybe I'll see that old lady on the Parkway again and show her what’s up.

Hat's off to the Canucks showing up in Beauce, good job, enjoy that weather!