I find it
hard to ride in this 100 degree of an oven that we call summer. Some
times its bearable and other times is just gets to you in a way you find your
self getting angry that is freaking HOT! I also find that its hard to be
motivated about riding for more than 2 hours because you want to beat the heat
and you would rather not let it eat away your fitness. It’s a good thing
to relish in the fact that I built up a lot of fitness earlier in the season so
short rides are more then enough to keep it and just riding in the heat will
regulate you for a race day in this hot bubble of heat. I am also glad I
have a cycling coach as well as that person being a great racer him self Kent
Woerman. It’s nice to get feed back from the data and how you are feeling
to if you have a troubling pain. It helps to have a coach to push you and
also tell you that you need to chill out. Having a few good teammates
that are really great friends is also a plus, I more then likely would have
never gotten into cycling if it was for Team Colavita/Parisi Coffee - I went on
a few rides seeing that I could ride with them and even hang on with the faster
guys, I started off from a single speed / fixed bike. Those feel
like so long ago. Britton even let me ride a few road bikes for longer
80-100 mile rides also let me race is full carbon CX bike for my first season
into competitive cycling.... dont know where that last part of my rant was
going but seeing how much I have grown from then to now is impressive.
I recently
purchased The Feed Zone a cookbook that has some really interesting ways that
have turned my work of traditional way of cooking into a whole new array of
looking at preparing food. My family a specially my mother is a great chef
her self and she prides her self on making healthy foods from anything you can
think of she has a small library of cook books and ultimately I have learned
from her. The Feed Zone takes things pancakes and you replace it with
rice flower with rice by just cooking and blending the rice as your base by
adding sugar, eggs, other variety of options and you can always add your own
kick to things. The more i've cooked from this book I have thrown in my
own spin and that’s what the books wants! It always breaks down sugar,
eggs, hydration, fat, protein, carbohydrates, rice, salt, and other stuff like
‘to carb or not to carb, going to bed hungry, just a lot of neat stuff after
that you read and just simply make. Most of the items in the book are
only 5-7 things to make a filling, delicious, energy feed, just simply healthy
nutrient food. I am not saying this book is the end to the way my mother
and father taught me how to cook but it has widen my scope of preparing and
cooking my food for future events racing and training. A great quote in
the book by Nietzsche, “ you have your way. I have my way. As for the right
way, the correct way, and the only way, does not exist.” Also the a quote by
one of the authors that I find true when I cook food is that, “we believe that
by showing you recipes we use and love, instead of arguing over this versus
that we can better help you reach goals.” In the end I think this book will
help you reach GOALS if you have them then you know what I mean and if you
don’t have goals when it comes to cycling you should think about sitting down
and jotting down some goals so you have something to work towards…
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