In November I started back into training, building up endurance for next seasons racing which starts in March. Unfortunately this coincided with college work taking over my life and its been a real struggle to fit things in. Architecture and cycling are two of the most time consuming activities possible and a bad combination! For the last 6 weeks I’ve been doing about 60 hours a week in college and reckon I clocked up 80 last week coming up to my final project presentation for the semester! Not good, doesn’t leave many hours left in the day to get out on the bike and all forms of ‘normal’ life seem to have disappeared.
Still though, the less time I have the more determined I get to fit it in. I’ve managed to keep the long weekend spins up and during the week had to realise that 6am is a time that exists and is actually not that bad once you’re used to it. I can only see dark, cold, wet mornings as character building! The weather recently has been nuts, hurricane winds and lots of rain. I seem to frequently come home shaking with cold and soaked through no matter how many layers I put on! Somehow managed to avoid getting pneumonia but I don’t know how. My turbo trainer has still never made it out of its box but its beginning to look more and more appealing. Will put it off a bit longer though I think.
I started running a bit too since its much more time efficient than biking. It was pretty nasty at first but it no longer takes me three days to recover from a short run, and its nice to clear the head after a long day in studio.