April Update

Howdy All!
Well, these past three months have been pretty busy. I've been to Chile a twice, Kamloops once, worked a lot, trained a lot, had gum surgery, and now have a cold.

It's kind of funny, when you try and summarize what you've been doing for a couple of months, and you can boil it down to a sentence. Hmmm.

Well, I have been putting a lot of time into getting the next race weekend organized: The Summer Challenge at the Burnaby Velodrome in May. We'll see how that turns out. And I've arranged for socks and jerseys to be made for the Burnaby Track Club, and we are getting custom helmets for the club, too. Also met with the Mayor of Burnaby, to give him an update on how things have been progressing under the 'bubble'.

Training has been coming along as expected. I'm doing a lot of threshold training, some of it behind the bike on the track, and it really seems to be helping with my high end recovery. I'll be switching into a killer phase, next, which will involve a lot of above threshold intervals, with short recovery periods, in order to improve my repeatability at high speed.

I'm pretty excited for summer racing to get here. I skipped on the spring series races, in favour of staying focused on my own training, and avoiding getting too burned out, too early. The May BVSC is a perfect start to a long race season, anyway. Why start too early?

More later!
G