Team McAlister

seems to be a shift of 24 hours or so.  I’m perpetually a day behind on updating this site.  In this case, I had a challenging 2 hours on the bike yesterday.  I spent the first hour convinced that my prior training was yielding a result of superior athletic performance.  I was riding uphill into a steady headwind at 20 mph.  Truly, feeling every bit the elite cyclist!  Since I am sticking to a very strict training schedule, the end of one hour signaled the turnaround point.  I took a quick breather and drink, let some fast-moving traffic pass and headed back for what promised to be a scorching downhill return with a lovely tailwind.  As luck would have it, the tailwind was blowing from the opposite direction!  ouch!  The one hour ride home took about 1:15 and wasn’t nearly as easy as it should have been.

I can easily remember,though, when that same 40-ish mile ride took everything I had and hurt me for days afterwards.  I even remember the first time I did that ride and thought I would die while struggling to get back home.  Ah, sweet progress.

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