January training update

Race countdown: 47 Days, 8 Hrs

Another month of training is now behind us. My totals for January are a bit more than for December... but I have a feeling (from what I have already done) that February is going to be a LOT bigger...
Here is Jan:
Week of 1/1 - 15:37hrs, 182 miles
1/8 - 14:47, 169 miles
1/15 - 10:52, 120 miles (boat show week - too much work!)
1/22 - 20:54, 263 miles (this was a big week!!)
1/29-31st - 6:04, 81 miles

Total for January - 68:16 hours, 815 miles
Total (to date) since the start of the Cape Epic Training Plan (started 12/4/06) - 116:01 hours, 1461 miles.

Look for another interesting update at the end of February.
Scott, my coach from Wenzel Coaching, has me scheduled to be doing back to back 7hr rides towards the end of the month... An excerpt from my training plan, "To succeed at stage racing you need to not only be able to complete the distance of each stage riding strongly, you need to be able to do it with little enough fatigue that you can continue to ride strongly day after day, with only one night for recovery between races. Since you’ll also be doing all your moving and setting up housekeeping in a new venue each evening, recovery opportunities are really minimal. That means that rather than just getting to the point where you can do the daily distances, you would ideally get to a point that the daily distances feel pretty trivial. That is unlikely to occur, so the next best is simply doing as much endurance time as you can to build the biggest base possible."

I really like the part about the daily distances feeling "trivial"... Somehow I agree that this is not likely to happen!