I slept in today and chilled I’m bed until 11am as I had my Son staying and he had had a stressful week so needed a rest.
When I got up I did my pre 30 day cycling challenge so that I have a base level to compare against over the next 30 days. I wasn’t expecting much as I had spent the past week eating crap food and drinking more and more fizzy drinks especially Coca Cola!!! Not ideal but I am going to stop again today so hopefully I can stop without getting horrible withdrawal again!!!
To my surprise I had actually dropped weight to 108.0kgs so a drop of 0.7kgs from last week a good start to the challenge I guess and a good end to a bad week!
I have been thinking about my workouts I have decided that I will get more gains from making my 30 day challenge into a 30 day ride the track challenge instead of a 30 day road bike challenge so I have decided that I will go to the track every day for a month to try and get fitter and also drop weight if possible. My plan now is to do sprints Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings before work and then do legs in the gym Tuesday and Thursday mornings then hit the track during my lunch break during the week Mon, Tues, Thur and Fri as I race or do gates on Wednesdays anyway which will count as being at the track anyway! At the weekend I will do Gates on Saturday and then I want to go back to my plan of a pump track on a Sunday morning with my son as we both need to work on our skills!
Track session wise I think that I will work on the following sessions:
Monday – Jumping/Manuals on Dirt Bike (Active Rest)
Tuesday – Pumping/ Carrying speed
Wednesday – Rest and then Bristol Racing or Gates
Thursday – Breaking down 1&2nd Straights and 3rd and 4th straights (timed)
Friday – Full speed Laps (Timed)
Saturday – Gates at Bath (Building up gate + 1st straight, 1st + 2nd, 1st + 2nd + 3rd and full lap x 2)
Sunday – Pump track free riding working on skills.
I also need to get some manual practice sessions in on the flat as my manuals are the main skill that is holding me back at the moment. I will try and do manuals for 30 minutes before sprint sessions then I will try and get some sessions in when I am not training in the evenings.
Diet wise I am going to go raw vegan during the week and eat normally at the weekends when my son is with me. I have been looking into diet a bit more and I feel that my diet is the main thing holding me back from losing a lot of weight even though I am definitely getting fitter!
I have been super tired today so I have not been out on any bike at all in fact I went back to bed after I dropped my son off and slept for another couple of hours. So I am hoping that I have caught up all of the sleep that I lost last week!
This evening I have put the DXR cranks and S&M bars onto the Dialled MX20R so that it is ready to training on starting tomorrow lunch time:
I also moved the brake lever onto the right hand side of the bars as my left wrist is not strong enough at the moment to hold the bar and pull the lever so I figured that it was better to swap the side the brake lever was on to stop hurting my wrist more than I need to!
The 20″ is now set up pretty well, I want to swap the forks out at some point but for now it will be fine to train on. I have also put a bid in on a Chris King Ceramic BB like the one that I have on the 20′ so then both the bikes will have identical cranks and bb’s so should feel pretty similar. I noticed when I double biked the other weekend that the 24″ felt so much better due to the Chris King bb and DXR cranks compared to the Shimano bb and Forward Cranks on the 20″ so I am hoping with identical setups they should feel the same 🙂
I think that I will do gates and race at Bristol on my 24″ still so that I use the 20″ for training and the 24″ for gates and racing as I am going to race the 24″ at Nationals and the Worlds so I need to keep racing on it but I am enjoying training on the 20″ and last time I trained on the 20″ and raced on the 24″ I got a lot faster really quickly so I am hoping that the same happens this time.
I am going to call the doctors and get an appointment to get my wrist looked at as it is not healing and I keep hurting it all the time which is very painful and also not going to help it heal! I am hoping that I will be able to at least spring on the bike with the brace on so that I do not have to stop training before it starts but I may have to revert back to plan B which is going out on the road bike or use the rollers instead if the wrist is actually bad and needs to be rested 🙁 If this is the case I may have to swap out morning sprints for Morning Cardio sessions at the gym instead but I will cross that bridge when I come to it. I may be able to get away with just using a brace in which case I can continue training even if I can’t ride the track!
I also got an email that my new driver for the Jump bike has been posted and that it will arrive on 4th May (Wednesday) so i should have the jump bike built by Thursday so depending how my wrist feels I could start riding the jump bike instead as it will shock the wrist much less than the BMX will as it has front suspension. I am really looking forwards to riding the new Jump bike as it has taken a while to get it fully built up 🙁 I really need to start trying to learn to jump as well as Manual and the Jump bike is really good to learn both of those things 🙂