Training Notes 28-June-09

Bike Training - Yesterday I went riding, and had a pretty bad afternoon. The area was flooded, so I rode off to find a dry spot and came back to see my car had been broken into. Only my CD’s were stolen… but it still sucked.

Today I went riding at the local track. Unfortunately I lazed around the house until 2 o’clock and by the time I arrived at the track I only had 2 hours of riding before they closed.

I just tried to put in as many laps as I could. I roughly timed myself and my average laps where 2:05. I forget what my times where 3 months ago (didn’t write them down, doh) but I’m pretty sure that is at least 5 seconds quicker… but possibly 10-15.

The only problem is I was really tight on the bike. I can usually ride for half an hour at a time… but today I got tired after 5 minutes. My dad came out today and told me I need to ride smoother. Instantly I relaxed and got less tired - but still rode as fast.

Oh yeah, and I bought a new helmet. It was tripping me out though. My bike sounds so different when I’m wearing it compared to my old helmet. I kept thinking something was going to fall off or blow up ha.

Fitness - Didn’t work out today… but had an awesome training session yesterday. It involved lots of heavy cleans and pushups, and totally destroyed my whole arms. Good training for mx though.

Diet - 90%  - My diet today and yesterday has been near perfect… but as usual I have tiny moments where I lose focus and don’t give a crap what I eat. My diet overall is good, and it’s only really small things that are the issue, but it’s something I’d like to get sorted out so I can focus more on other things.

Other notes - The last few days I’ve actually been feeling a lot better about my training. I’m slowly getting more disciplined.

Sometimes it feels like I’m not doing enough… and there’s a million things I need to work on. But first I want to start sticking to my current schedule before adding anything else. BTW, my training schedule has been updated.

I’m still going to bed too late which sucks. Now that my discipline with my diet is improving… this is the next issue I need to deal with.

As for those main points I was working on earlier - here’s how they’re going:

  • 1. Pick a time to go riding in advance, then stick to it.

I’m going riding on whatever days I have the time, but I tend to procrastinate and leave late. So by the time I actually start riding I’ve already lost a large part of the day. So no, I still need to work on this.

  • 2. Mix up the types and intensity of my training.

I’ve cut a lot out of my schedule so I’m not committing to as much. Plus I’ve thought of a million different drills/skills/training exercises to keep things fresh. Putting them all together and sticking to them is the hard part.

  • 3. Practice the small technical skills regularly - but in small spurts.

I do this sometimes, but too often I just ride mindless laps.

  • 4. Plan my afternoon snack for after work.

This is going good. While I’m not planning my snacks… as long as I don’t lose focus of the bigger picture I find it easy to resist any sugar cravings.

  • 5. Each day after work, get home and ride my pushbike for 15 minutes before I do anything else.

This has been going good too. I only ride my bike if I have had a crappy day at work, but it at least takes my mind off things.

That’s all folks…

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Training Notes 25-June-09

Bike Training - Rode the pushbike for about 15 minutes after work. I just practiced wheelies and nose wheelies (both of which I suck at) plus some balance drills.

Fitness - I was meant to work out this morning after work, but I went to bed too late last night and would have only gotten 5 hours sleep.

Diet - 100%  - Nailed my diet again. And just like yesterday, it wasn’t hard.

Other notes - My discipline with my diet has been good lately. I wasted my time this evening though, just sitting around the house.

I procrastinate all evening, then stay up late trying to fit everything in. I need to start getting to bed by 9:30. For some reason I’m struggling with it… I guess it’s just discipline again.

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Training Notes 24-June-09

Bike Training - Nothing.

Fitness - Nothing.

Diet - 100%  - I nailed my diet today. And it wasn’t hard to do. Now I just need to keep this up for a few weeks to ingrain it as a habit.

Other notes - I had a lot of spare time this afternoon, but spent it doing nothing. At least my diet is slowly getting sorted out… one step at a time.

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Training Notes 23-June-09

Bike Training - Nothing.

Fitness - Nothing.

Diet - 90%  - Again, I ate perfectly today… but couldn’t help having some sugar after dinner. Man…

Other notes - Another slow day today. My bike’s radiator is leaking, so I pulled that off today and will drop it in to get repaired tomorrow. Hopefully I should have it back before the weekend.

I’ve also edited my training schedule - to make it more simple and easy to follow. My biggest problem right now is actually doing everything I plan. So I’ve set that up as something I know I can follow easily… then I will slowly add more things in from there. Rather than just spinning my tires and going no-where (like today).

Also, I’m going to make a conscious effort over the next few days to focus on every single thing I do throughout the day… and having the discipline to stop myself if it’s not in line with my goal. We’ll see how things work out.

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Training Notes 22-June-09

Bike Training - Nothing.

Fitness - No workouts on Mondays.

Diet - 90%  - Stuck to my diet 100% today until after dinner, where I had some dessert. Nothing to bad, but I caved into cravings and had more than I should have.

Other notes - Days like this make me feel like I’m only doing enough to beat the weekend warriors.

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Training Notes 21-June-09

Wow, it’s been a while since my last update. I’ll write about what I did today, but also the past week:

Bike Training - I went riding today at the local MX track. I felt really good. It was the fastest I have rode there, and I could ride for 30min+ sessions… only getting tired after the 4th one.

I was super pumped too that I could keep up with all of the riders out there. But then 2 semi-pros came along and just blew us all away. I’m getting better each time I ride, but I still have a lot to do to get to the level of those guys.

Through the week I’ve been riding too. On Wednesday I played around with my suspension settings, and got the bike riding a lot better over bumps. It just needs some more adjustments to get the turning right.

Last Friday, I had my worst ride in a long time. I just couldn’t find my balance, and I was tentative to open the throttle past half way. So I just struggled riding laps. At the end of the day, I just said screw it, and worked on a few drills in the corners. Immediately I started riding better. I need to get some purpose into my practice and work on these drills more often, instead of just blindly riding laps every time.

Fitness - My workouts have been going good. For the last few months I had kind of plateaued, but recently I’ve been making some good gains. If I can find a way to get more energy, I’d like to start working out 4 times a week instead of the 3 I’m doing now.

Diet - 90%  - My diet has been pretty good lately. I’ve had a few days this past week where it was absolutely flawless, then a few that were not so. Overall it’s fine… I just have these brief moments where I’m like, “I don’t give a shit, one won’t hurt”, then I pig out on sugar. All it takes is a bit of self discipline, and finding something else to distract my mind. I’ve done it before, I just need to do it all the time.

Other notes - I feel like I’m slowly improving skill wise, but what is holding me back is my lack of self discipline.

I’m having trouble with procrastination, laziness and distractions. I committed last week to changing this, but it didn’t work out so well.

Also, this weekend for the second week in a row I just totally burnt out. I fell asleep for about 3 hours Saturday afternoon, and didn’t get out of the house on Sunday until midday.

I procrastinate all evening, then am lat to bed trying to finish everything I should have done earlier. I really need to get to bed at 9:30 each night. There’s no way I can move to another level in my training on any less sleep than that. Damn discipline.

Tomorrow I’m also going to try to reorganize my training schedules to try and maximise my energy and productive time.

We’ll see how things go.

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Training Notes 15-June-09

Bike Training - Just 15 minutes riding my pushbike when I got home from work.

Fitness - No working out, I took a rest today.

Diet - 95%  - The only bad food I ate today was some cake… but it was my birthday cake so that’s alright. Other than that my diet was perfect.

Other notes - It was my birthday today, so I took things slowly and played around with my new mp3 player.

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