My dad shared this info graph with me this morning and I found it quite interesting. I never knew that athletes got THAT much sleep (with the exception of Tiger Woods). This info graph shows the importance of sleep, but unfortunately it doesn’t explain HOW one could get that much sleep. I don’t know I could go to bed at 6:00 or 7:00 PM and expect to fall asleep within a few minutes…
Archives For Training
I just got home from a weekend in Whistler/Pemberton training with Todd Schumlick, the owner and director of PerformX Racing. We spent time learning workouts in the gym, talked about the mental aspect of racing, and talked about nutrition. I had a great time and learned a lot.
The main things that I took away from this weekend are:
- I need to do it on my own.
- Nobody can get stronger or faster but myself.
- I need to put the time and effort into training.
In nine weeks I’m getting back together with Todd to update some of the workouts and plan for the race season.
We’ve had quite a bit of rain falling here in North Vancouver so getting out to ride has become a little bit of a hard thing to do considering I have a brother who doesn’t like to ride in the rain for fear of getting wet. I’ve never been able to figure that one out… Yesterday was no different and it was actually raining quite hard so even I was contemplating doing a workout rather than hit the trails. I soon realized that I shouldn’t even be considering training over riding a bike after not riding for a week, so we picked up a friend and went out to Cypress to get some wet weather riding in. After getting to the top, I was glad to say that it wasn’t raining. It was snowing… It all went downhill from there (pun intended) all three of us had some pretty good crashes and got very very wet and cold.
My two companions contemplating ditching me and taking the warm truck ride home.
Although we could wring water out of our gloves and our bikes were 10 pounds heavier with mud, it was a good day.