new year, new approach to this thing

well i'm not usually a new years resolution kinda guy, so i'm not going to make one this year. however, i am going to try to write more creative nonsense in this blog so someday maybe someone... (trail off)

anyways with today being the first of the year, i have about 2 more weeks to relax and take things easy before i have to get my butt in gear training hard for the season. my first race is on march 1st in new mexico, so i have a month and a half of really hard training to do before that race. last year i peaked way too early (sometime in april, not in mayish where i wanted to) so this year i'm trying to peak later so i can focus more on my ACA races and late season USCF races. i'm also planning on travelling to california a few times during the summer to race once in the manhattan beach grand prix and the USCF national championships. I'm also planning on going to collegiate national track championships in may sometime. this racing season is going to be brutal, but crazy fun! For christmas i got a new bike computer where i can record everything my old one recorded as well as heart rate and some heart rate functions (Calorie expenditure, etc.) so i should be able to train more effectively this year than last. we'll see how that goes. i'm still in winter training mode, riding slow and working on my cadence and different muscle strength in my legs to help round out my pedal stroke to get more power out of each stroke. 'tis all.