John K Scott’s Training Blog

Same route as Tuesday. Nearly the exact same time and power. A little faster up .7 mile climb up Lynwood. CTL about the same. It’s Friday. That is all.

This was the first installment of a 10 race series held throughout the summer put on by Nashville Cyclist . This was also my first criterium. For those non-cyclists reading this a criterium is a race around a shorter closed course. You basically go round and round for a defined number of laps or amount [...]

Starting to feel more normal. Awake and refreshed in the morning. Not feeling totally dead after a workout etc. As I lamented after Saturday’s ride though, I feel my fitness is behind where I would have liked to be at this point (see last post). But damn the torpedoes I’m going to get out there [...]

Nearly 3 hour 50 mile ride on Saturday as planned. It felt good to get out on the bike for a longer ride again. The goal was to take it somewhat easy yet make it challenging. Say a tempo zone. I felt pretty good the first 2/3 of the ride but the last 10 miles [...]

Well. Maybe. Went out for another ride yesterday. Had the day mostly off to go help with the 4th grade year end party at Leah’s School. Lot’s of fun and it was a gorgeous day. Luckily I had time to sneak in a ride when we got home which was more appealing than the alternative [...]

Got back from a long weekend trip to Wisconsin last night. We went up to celebrate Nancy’s parents 50th wedding anniversary. Friday – Monday with no bike. Although I wouldn’t have had time the weather was GORGEOUS up there and a ride would have been awesome. Since I’ve been feeling run down, my goal for [...]

Well, after no one finding anything wrong with me and feeling a bit better I decided to go for a ride at lunch today. I’m still not feeling 100%. Still have breathing issues and chest pressure. Mind you, none of this is debilitating, but it is annoying and I’m sure has a negative effect on [...]

Well, it is when you are talking about lab tests you are waiting for. Blood enzymes, thyroid & PSA all fine. As far as the doc at the walk-in clinic (who I liked very much) is concerned there is nothing wrong with me. So maybe it is just a virus I’m trying to expel from [...]

Let me build to this. I took last week mostly off. As I mentioned I just hadn’t been feeling right. I thought maybe I had over trained maybe (though I’m not sure it’s possible to become over trained on 6-7 hours a week)? Well, I couldn’t take it any more and had to get out [...]

Yep. Well at least after getting soaked on Saturday at least I was dry on Sunday. It’s too bad. This was our Team’s Race. I was also supposed to work the other races. While it was disappointing I was partially relieved as I ended up with a flat rear tire (didn’t notice until I took [...]