Crazy its almost already been 2 full months since I ve been in Hudsons Hope. And all and all my opinion of this place is that it is not bad at all. Just far away, sometimes too far away. It is very important to keep busy here and have you own things to do or else this place will eat you alive. So far its been really easy to make friends and have stuff to do. It just gets a little lonely for me when I do 4 hour bike rides or hill repeats. Nobody here wants to do that for some reason haha. I find my self saying this place is the best one day and the worst another, I guess that’s just what this place is all about there’s no in-between, its one extreme or the other. The last little while for me I ve been kind of busy with work,,trying to finish up strong,, (I just graduated my program today as a hydro electrician). It feels good know that I m done that, although I still have tones to learn, this job has been cool so far, of course there are boring days but lot of challenges come with this job which makes it interesting. Its been one of my goals to get a job where I can be financially stable and today it feels like I just checked that off the list haha.
So as for the riding its been going okay I feel like I m getting stronger, today I did 7 hill repeats up signal hill about an 8 min climb at a hard intensity for me. I felt really good, previously every Friday I do hill repeats up signal hill and the most ive done before this was 5, and my average time is usually about 9min, Today I did 7 with average time of about 8min. Recently I kind of changed the way I train. I think I was doing too much I was always tried and burnt out. After getting help from different people and reading stuff, I got a different view . I used to just have one speed, go ``hard`` all the time, and I was always tried, so basically I thought I was going my hardest but I was not. I just doing useless training. What I learned now hard training days should be serious, Hard should mean all out till you get dizzy, and don’t feel right, And easy days means barely putting pressure on the pedals. Before I was always training somewhere in the middle all the time which wasn’t getting me anywhere. But it makes sense to me now that you need easy days to allow your body to be rested for the serious hard days which should make you faster. So hopefully that’s works better . I have another race next weekend in Edmonton It is a 4 stage race I never done anything like that so that should be fun, Prolouge, TT, Crit and Road race. Just wish there were more hills in Edmonton, I feel really strong at climbing right now. Anyway I will get to see my Dad, Sister, nephew, and niece, Its awesome when we can all get together, so I m excited about next weekend.
So hopefully I can really start to train more and focus on riding now being done my school and
work stuff , anyway guess I ll see how it goes.
