A firm resolve is not easily broken” or “Once you get it up, keep it up.”
I’ll leave the translation to the reader. It’s May 2021 and it has been over two years since I was in race shape from a power or weight perspective.
It’s been a ridiculous two years from moving across country, to the pandemic to a job that gets crazy. Then early this year something changed.
In January I listed to “Quit Like a Woman” and stopped drinking for the second time in my life. The first time lasted a bit over five years. I replaced alchohol with high sugar and high fat foods and my weight went up to a peak near or at 190lb’s perhaps more as the scale became hard to see. Okay, that’s not true, but I didn’t like looking anymore!
By mid February I started riding again, a little. Mid March I started riding more and the first of April I was back on a training plan. Eating whole foods, little meat and fasting 13 hours a day. I’m down 17 lb’s and my power is starting to come back up, slowly. Most of all, I am enjoying the process of training, eating healthy and riding.
I’m also enjoying following the Classic Cycling B-line team Please join me in following them and giving them a thumbs up!
Shane Martin and Classic Cycling have been supportive of me over the years and I am enjoying following these riders as they follow their own path to success, no matter how it is defined.
In a few weeks as I turn 48, here is to hoping res firma mitescere nescit!
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