Let's face it. It's all about body comp.
It's hairy leg season season now, aka get fat season. But I'm going contrarian and this means using the next 3 months to get lighter, again. I concede nothing to the holidays. Bring it. I'll still have the pumpkin flavored pork rinds and skittles, the stuffing and gravy and whatever the fat man throws down the chimney. It'll be a very weird looking calorie distribution file, but it WILL be a deficit.
The last 3 years of racing bikes I've showed up weighing less in April and have had more fun and better results each year. I figure if I can work my way into a full blown eating disorder I've got a shot at cat 2. Ha, ha. (Sort of.)
Light is a relative term. I'm now 223 up from 212 in June when my season ended abruptly halfway through a criterium. I'm shooting to race in April at 205. That will be very skinny for me but I won't have enough fun in Masters and cat 3 races any heavier. And I'm eschewing crits. No more crits. Too expensive. I'm over the hill so power is not going to magically jump much higher without being a big fat cheater.
So here we go. From now until January will be long non measured rides, other fun fitness stuff, shoulder rehab, maybe some twerking. January begins the trainer intensity and I won't have to worry about dropping much weight, if any. Might put some on, I don't know. Don't know if we'll have time....
Who's in? Just post your weight loss, gain, or hilarious failures. You eat an entire cake? Post it. You eat your kid's entire plastic pumpkin of Halloween candy? Post it, you selfish bastard. You go on a meth bender and drop 12? Post it. You run a Turkey Trot, slam 7 Sam Adams' and 3 plates of food and wake up 4 lbs heavier? Post it, Fatty.
Okay, they all here? I'm goin anyway....
It's hairy leg season season now, aka get fat season. But I'm going contrarian and this means using the next 3 months to get lighter, again. I concede nothing to the holidays. Bring it. I'll still have the pumpkin flavored pork rinds and skittles, the stuffing and gravy and whatever the fat man throws down the chimney. It'll be a very weird looking calorie distribution file, but it WILL be a deficit.
The last 3 years of racing bikes I've showed up weighing less in April and have had more fun and better results each year. I figure if I can work my way into a full blown eating disorder I've got a shot at cat 2. Ha, ha. (Sort of.)
Light is a relative term. I'm now 223 up from 212 in June when my season ended abruptly halfway through a criterium. I'm shooting to race in April at 205. That will be very skinny for me but I won't have enough fun in Masters and cat 3 races any heavier. And I'm eschewing crits. No more crits. Too expensive. I'm over the hill so power is not going to magically jump much higher without being a big fat cheater.
So here we go. From now until January will be long non measured rides, other fun fitness stuff, shoulder rehab, maybe some twerking. January begins the trainer intensity and I won't have to worry about dropping much weight, if any. Might put some on, I don't know. Don't know if we'll have time....
Who's in? Just post your weight loss, gain, or hilarious failures. You eat an entire cake? Post it. You eat your kid's entire plastic pumpkin of Halloween candy? Post it, you selfish bastard. You go on a meth bender and drop 12? Post it. You run a Turkey Trot, slam 7 Sam Adams' and 3 plates of food and wake up 4 lbs heavier? Post it, Fatty.
Okay, they all here? I'm goin anyway....