SCOLETRAIN

Flashbacks
Being back on my road bike yesterday for the first time in over two weeks was good for my soul and mental state for most of the ride. It was all good until I turned North into the wind and tried to use roads with good wind breaks, but soon my mind was drawn back into the suffer fest at Trans Iowa as I could barely move at a pace of 12mph. Did this bother me? Not really as I swore out loud and challenged the wind Gods to give me stronger headwinds if they thought they could stop me like the high winds in Iowa did. I have concluded that if certain situations can't defeat me in training, they hopefully will make me stronger or a lot grumpier. My wife has unfortunately seen this mood swing a few times over the last eighteen years of our marriage. To make the flashback even more like Trans Iowa, I threw in a bad gravel section with a crosswind. Call me sick, but us endurance freaks seem to be drawn to the nastiest of conditions and challenges to prove to ourselves that it can be done. If we didn't have challenges in our lives we'd all be setting on our couches watching some obnoxious made for tv reality show that does nothing but make you lazy, unhealthy and lethargic. Get outside and challenge the conditions. Pedal on...