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Something I’ve been doing the past couple of winters are doing the Indoor Time Trials at CycleU. If you know me, this is of course nothing new.

Even more so it shouldn’t be new that I’ve signed up for every other Tuesday now through March.

What *is* new however was the stupid idea on my part to do two of them last night. Generally this wouldn’t be too bad of a thing, but honestly it’s been awhile since I’ve done something even remotely close to all out effort. Let alone for two 17 minute sessions.

As you can gather, it kicked my ass, but I didn’t realize it fully until a few hours after I had gotten home. Totally felt drained. Downed a 32oz nalgene of the OJ/water thing and took two advil, and hit the sack before 10.

Felt good this morning, so that’s good but it was definitely a hard time last night.

I find that on my drives home after these things that I’m torn between really commiting to serious training or just going with the flow. Perhaps it’s just my personality, but it seems like if you were to commit to some higher goal (say to enter a race, triathlon, or whatnot) that that would provide the additional motivation to take it to the next level.

I mean it makes sense, wanting (or needing ) a higher purpose to do the things you do. Not sure if it’s a crutch to need something to take yourself to the next level (either mentally or physically), but if thats what it takes to get to the next level then perhaps its ok ?

Anyway, enough pondering for tonight. Here are the results:

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