Goodbye July, Hello heat…

So I know that all of my blog reading fans have been hitting refresh over and over…. this is the day you all wait for, right?  (Who am I kidding, 98% of my “readers” get this in their email and the other 2 already went home from work for the week!)  Okay, so there you have it.  I am sort of stuck again.  Seems to happen right around the “10′s” and right around the end of the month.  Maybe it’s end of the month stress caused my all of my end of the month work I don’t have to do… (in the support world, you have to work when the problems exist, they don’t understand the month, close of business or any other such thing!

I honestly think I did this “plateau” to myself.  Last week I rode a seemingly HUGE number of miles.  My body probably said “Hey man, STOP!”.  I didn’t listen and it said “Ok, I am not going to let ANYTHING go… we might need it to get your big keister up the mountain for pancakes!”.  This is all, of course rumor and speculation, but hey… this is my blog and I can speculate if the urge this me.

The other thing I updated you on 1 month ago was MISSING my June mileage goal by a bit (35 miles?)  Well, I took care of that in July.  I finished off the month with an unbelievable 758+ miles.   Recall my goal was 600.  That’s a spare 158 miles and a 10k.  Only 2 days of the month did my average mileage go below 20 miles a day.  I finished with an average of 24.45 miles a day.  I didn’t ride 9 days so the actual average was about 35.5 miles a riding day.  If you throw in the last 3 months, I have literally done over 1800 miles (and a 10k).  It’s crazy to think I have done this.

• April – 435 miles – 14.5 miles a day
• May – 490 miles – 15.8 miles a day
• June – 532 miles – 18 miles a day
• July – 758 miles – 24.5 miles a day

I think I can comfortably say it wont go up in August.  I am glad I have a few “carry over minutes”.  I have a vacation, lots of travel, some business travel … I am going to try to ride hard some next week, the week after and bury myself in the “pain cave” before I have to take a few days off…. recover and hopefully get ready to open up my “cottage of wattage” on some poor unsuspecting bike racers down at the DLV… Eh… if not, I hope I get my new bike and have fun riding it too!

July was a success.  Let’s hope August isn’t a hot mess!